It was billed as \u201cThe Battle of Pennsylvania\u201d Episode Five.<\/p>\n
The karate competition took place at the Freeport Middle School near Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
The event featured 150 Divisions in five events, and it was open to all styles.<\/p>\n
Erie\u2019s Brian Goda, who trains at TKO-Erie on West 12 Street had an exceptional competition.<\/p>\n
TKO-Erie owner Brian Arrington told Erie News Now, \u201cGoda, a student at Collegiate Academy, took first place honors in the 15-17 fighting division.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goda is also a member of the U.S. Team going to Austria for a competition later this year.<\/p>\n
Erie\u2019s Matthew Borczon also captured the 50-plus fighting division.<\/p>\n
Borczon finished third in Forms and recorded another third-place finish in 35-plus Weapons.<\/p>\n
7 Grand Champion Black Belt champions were crowned, earning a $100.00 prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was billed as \u201cThe Battle of Pennsylvania\u201d Episode Five. The karate competition took place at the Freeport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,139],"class_list":["post-176180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176180","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=176180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}