{"id":6428,"date":"2015-08-02T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2015-08-02T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T05:48:19","slug":"mason-city-newman-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/mason-city-newman-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason City Newman. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-tradition of &#8220;the team that beats North Tama, or the team that beats the team that beats North Tama, wins it all&#8221; came true again this year in baseball, as <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/sports\/local_sports\/high-five-newman-catholic-erupts-for--run-inning-to\/article_b74556bb-e008-5419-b98d-645112d31e78.html\">Mason City Newman shut out Pleasantville<\/a>\u00a0Saturday\u00a0to win the Class 1A title. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/secure\/bracket.php?year=2015&amp;sport=bs&amp;class=1A&amp;district=4\">Newman mercy-rule&#8217;d<\/a> every postseason opponent except one (Algona Garrigan, in substate), outscoring them 76-6. Gladbrook-Reinbeck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/secure\/bracket.php?year=2015&amp;sport=bs&amp;class=1A&amp;district=5\">the team that beat North Tama<\/a>\u00a0this year, scored four of those six in the first round of the state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the 24 Class 1A state baseball championship games since Norway High School closed, private schools have filled 23 of the 48 slots and won 11 of the titles. (Newman\u00a0in 2009-15\u00a0counts for five of the 23 and three of the 11.) This year, private schools were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Baseball-Bracket-Explanation.pdf \">six of the 16 district #1 seeds<\/a>. However, the best record belonged to undefeated (public) Van Buren, who pulled off an impersonation of Kentucky and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/29635626\/2015\/07\/26\/north-linn-upsets-van-buren-advances-to-semis\">lost its first game at the wrong time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarinWilliams\/status\/626822525201199104\">this exchange of tweets involving IHSAA\u00a0information director\u00a0Bud Legg<\/a>, don&#8217;t expect anything to change any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-tradition of &#8220;the team that beats North Tama, or the team that beats the team that beats North Tama, wins it all&#8221; came true again this year in baseball, as Mason City Newman shut out Pleasantville\u00a0Saturday\u00a0to win the Class &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/mason-city-newman-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}