{"id":23603,"date":"2012-04-24T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23603"},"modified":"2012-04-24T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:57:02","slug":"monrovia-rises-to-the-top-of-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23603","title":{"rendered":"Monrovia Rises to the Top of Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23607\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23607\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-24-12-MON-TC-012-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Mata fired five shutout innings to lead Monrovia into first place <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Monrovia) &#8211; Joe Mata\u00a0threw five shutout\u00a0innings and\u00a0also ripped\u00a0a two run double\u00a0to lead Monrovia to a 4-0 win over Temple City Tuesday. With the victory the first place Wildcats moved a game ahead of the Rams in the Rio Hondo league with four to play.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Monrovia jumped on\u00a0Temple City early\u00a0with three in the first inning before adding another in the fourth. Mata drove in a pair with a ringing double for the first two runs and\u00a0Chris Burkholder\u00a0added a run scoring single.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23608\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23608\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23608\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-24-12-MON-TC-031-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Jones and the Wildcats now control their own destiny  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mata then sailed through five innings.\u00a0He allowed just three hits, walked three and struck out three to pick up the victory. Brad Felty\u00a0came on in the sixth and finished\u00a0up the final two innings for the Wildcats. Justin Jones contributed\u00a0two hits\u00a0and scored a run for M-Town.<\/p>\n<p>Monrovia is now 14-3 and 7-1 in the Rio. Temple City fell to 16-3-1 overall and 6-2 in league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Monrovia) &#8211; Joe Mata\u00a0threw five shutout\u00a0innings and\u00a0also ripped\u00a0a two run double\u00a0to lead Monrovia to a 4-0 win over Temple City Tuesday. With the victory the first place Wildcats moved a game ahead of the Rams in the Rio Hondo league with four to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7208,5312,5310,7206,15,7427],"class_list":["post-23603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-brad-felty","tag-chris-burkholder","tag-joe-mata","tag-justin-jones","tag-monrovia-baseball","tag-temple-city-baseball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23605,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions\/23605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}