{"id":185977,"date":"2026-03-10T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:53:08","slug":"baseball-falls-to-mount-union-in-florida-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185977\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Falls to Mount Union in Florida Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lu_logo_interlocking_new.png\" alt=\"Lawrence University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Lawrence University<\/p>\n<p>3\/13\/2026 | 1:30 PM Central<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 13 (Fri) \/ 1:30 PM Central&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lu_logo_interlocking_new.png\" alt=\"Lawrence University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Lawrence University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/lawrence-university\/141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    The Hope College baseball team closed a six-day trip to Florida with a 16-3 loss in seven innings to The University of Mount Union (Ohio) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Flying Dutchmen (4-8) received run-scoring hits from left fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/connor-lavery\/10943\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10943\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Lavery<\/a> (Aurora, Illinois \/ Metea Valley) in the third and right fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brenden-collins\/10422\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10422\" target=\"_blank\">Brenden Collins<\/a> (Kalamazoo, MIchigan \/ Hackett Catholic) in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/thatcher-simon\/10441\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10441\" target=\"_blank\">Thatcher Simon<\/a> (Byron Center, Michigan \/ Byron Center) scored Hope&#8217;s final run in the seventh after an errant Mount Union pick-off attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Union (10-2) jumped to a 7-0 lead in the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Hope next plays on Friday-Saturday, March 13-14, at a tournament hosted by Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: vs. Lawrence University 3\/13\/2026 | 1:30 PM Central &#13; Mar. 13 (Fri) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-185977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}