{"id":168012,"date":"2026-04-16T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:56:28","slug":"liberty-jumps-out-to-big-early-lead-in-baseball-win-over-rival-freedom-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168012\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty jumps out to big early lead in baseball win over rival Freedom | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN (Video courtesy of Service Electric) &#8211; The Coca-Cola Park high school baseball rivalry series wrapping up on Thursday as Bethlehem rivals Freedom and Liberty square off.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes trying to keep their unblemished divisional record intact get right after it in the first inning as Brogan Perreault hits a laser to left-center for an RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>Two pitches later, Christian Hackett delivers a two-run single and the Canes would lead 5-0 after one.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the second, Hackett is at it again with an RBI double to left. Liberty would add on and stretch the lead to 9-0.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom battled back with a five-run fifth inning to cut the deficit to 9-5, but the Canes win 12-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN (Video courtesy of Service Electric) &#8211; The Coca-Cola Park high school baseball rivalry series wrapping up on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,75641,75642,59112],"class_list":{"0":"post-168012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-brogan-perreault","12":"tag-christian-hackett","13":"tag-liberty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168012","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=168012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}