{"id":48692,"date":"2021-08-04T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=48692"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:13:58","slug":"ura-under-12-baseball-team-makes-strong-showing-at-cooperstown-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=48692","title":{"rendered":"URA Under-12 baseball team makes strong showing at Cooperstown Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Unionville Recreation Under-12 baseball team participated in a tournament in Cooperstown, N.Y.<\/p><\/div>\n

In July of 2021 Unionville Recreation Association had its first team representing the organization in Cooperstown, New York.\u00a0 Practices started in the winter as soon as the team was announced for the team of twelve-year-olds.\u00a0 Led by five coaches, Chris Gebhart, Bob Dobie, Shawn Bonsall, Mike Clancy, and Chris Manning, the team practiced and played through spring and summer, finally making it to Cooperstown All-Star Village in Cooperstown New York.<\/p>\n

The team of eleven was one of the few community-based teams out of sixty-five teams battling through the week.\u00a0 The URA 12U team is a true community-based team coming from a program with no more than 250 athletes from 4 years old to 12 years old.\u00a0 The Unionville Eleven have played together through the URA Recreation League and travel baseball for the majority of their lives.\u00a0 They attend school together and spend time together outside of baseball. They are an inseparable bunch who truly love each other and love being around each other, a group of brothers.\u00a0 The eleven young men battled manufactured teams for most of their ten games.\u00a0 Unionville faced many teams who drew in players from over a 100-mile radius, even teams who had only practiced as a unit three or four times after selecting the \u201cbest of the best\u201d from their area.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

During their time in Cooperstown they played with passion and genuine heart, they displayed camaraderie that was unmatched by other teams they battled.\u00a0 It was a heartwarming and emotional week for the fans who went to Cooperstown and those who watched from home, as they played ten games in four days.<\/p>\n

While playing in Cooperstown this team batted all eleven players, while most teams they played against only batted nine.\u00a0 They totaled 18 home runs across seven players and successfully stole 73 bases.\u00a0 Though they struggled in pool play, they played hard during elimination, playing four back-to-back games in one day, as they just weren\u2019t ready for it to end.\u00a0 Out of the sixty-five teams in the tournament, Unionville was one of five teams to win three elimination games.<\/p>\n

Thank you to those who sponsored to help the team get to Cooperstown, Primo\u2019s Hoagies of Kennett Square, ServPro of Kennett Square and Oxford, First Pharma, Wolf Disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July of 2021 Unionville Recreation Association had its first team representing the organization in Cooperstown, New York.\u00a0 Practices started in the winter as soon as the team was announced for the team of twelve-year-olds.\u00a0 Led by five coaches, Chris Gebhart, Bob Dobie, Shawn Bonsall, Mike Clancy, and Chris Manning, the team practiced and played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13908,7426,13965,13964,116],"class_list":["post-48692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cooperstown","tag-featured","tag-ny","tag-under-12-baseball","tag-unionville-recreation-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48693,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692\/revisions\/48693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}