{"id":7844,"date":"2017-03-24T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasadenasportsnow.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:20:59","slug":"baseball-charles-acker-has-enough-quality-start-maranatha-crushes-valley-christian-11-1-in-olympic-league-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadenasportsnow.com\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Charles Acker Has Another Quality Start; Maranatha Crushes Valley Christian, 11-1, in Olympic League Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>From Staff Reports:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charles Acker had another strong outing on the mound for Maranatha.<\/p>\n<p>Acker went six strong Thursday, allowing one run on two hits, and striking out 8 Valley Christian batters.<\/p>\n<p>He also helped his own cause with two hits and two runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Minutemen defeated the Crusaders, 11-1, in an Olympic League game.<\/p>\n<p>Five Maranatha players had at least two hits.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Martinez went 3 for 3, including a double and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Popham drove in three runs and had two hits.<\/p>\n<p>Max Blessinger and Kalani Chang each had two hits and an RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The game was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but rain forced the game to stop and moved to Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Maranatha will be back at it today (Friday) when they travel to Village Christian at 3:30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box Score:<\/strong><br \/>\nValley Christian: 0-0-0-1-0-0-(1)<br \/>\nMaranatha: 2-1-0-7-0-1-(10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Base hits:<\/strong><br \/>\nValley Christian 2; Maranatha 15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Win:<\/strong> Charles Acker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olympic League Standings:<\/strong><br \/>\nVillage Christian (7-1 overall, 3-0 in league)<br \/>\nMaranatha (6-2, 2-1)<br \/>\nWhittier Christian (6-6, 2-2)<br \/>\nValley Christian (6-5, 1-2)<br \/>\nHeritage Christian (5-5, 0-3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Staff Reports: Charles Acker had another strong outing on the mound for Maranatha. Acker went six strong Thursday, allowing one run on two hits, and striking out 8 Valley Christian batters. He also helped his own cause with two hits and two runs scored. The Minutemen defeated the Crusaders, 11-1, in an Olympic League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Baseball: Charles Acker Has Another Quality Start; Maranatha Crushes Valley Christian, 11-1, in Olympic League Battle &#8226; Pasadena Sports Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pasadenasportsnow.com\/?p=7844\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baseball: Charles Acker Has Another Quality Start; Maranatha Crushes Valley Christian, 11-1, in Olympic League Battle &#8226; Pasadena Sports Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Staff Reports: Charles Acker had another strong outing on the mound for Maranatha. 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