{"id":151271,"date":"2026-03-29T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:48:08","slug":"ku-honors-stephen-hood-in-doubleheader-with-mansfield-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151271\/","title":{"rendered":"KU Honors Stephen Hood in Doubleheader With Mansfield | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kutztown pitcher Stephen Hood passed away in December and the team wanted to pay tribute.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KU dedicated the bullpen to him naming it &#8220;Hoody&#8217;s Bullpen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There will be a bench placed there as well in honor of Hood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team had a pregame dedication ceremony before their doubleheader with Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from Panther Valley in 2024 and was beloved by everyone on the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hood&#8217;s brother Brad plays on Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kutztown won Game 1 of the doubleheader off Jared Ferguson&#8217;s walk off single 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They ended up sweeping Mansfield winning 4-3 in Game 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kutztown pitcher Stephen Hood passed away in December and the team wanted to pay tribute. \u00a0 KU dedicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4773,119,121,120,726],"class_list":["post-151271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}