{"id":23640,"date":"2012-04-26T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23640"},"modified":"2012-04-26T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:47:59","slug":"oklahoma-offers-corey-copping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23640","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Offers Corey Copping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23641\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23641\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23641\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4-24-12-MON-TC-006-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temple City&#39;s Corey Copping has been offerred a full ride by Oklahoma  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Temple City) &#8211;\u00a0Temple City pitcher\u00a0Corey Copping has\u00a0received\u00a0a scholarship offer to\u00a0pitch for the\u00a0University of Oklahoma\u00a0Ram Coach Barry Bacon\u00a0confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;They brought him out on a trip to Oklahoma\u00a0and he took a tour last weekend.\u00a0They offerred him a full ride,&#8221; Bacon said.<\/p>\n<p>Copping, who\u00a0also received an\u00a0offer from Santa Barbara,\u00a0hasn&#8217;t decided yet but is leaning towards the Sooners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They told him to go home,\u00a0take his time and think about it. It&#8217;s a big decision.&#8221; Bacon said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a quality kid and he&#8217;ll do fine at the college level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copping has a 1.24 ERA and 48 strikeouts in\u00a045 innings pitched. He&#8217;s allowed just 24 hits all year.\u00a0Last year he was 4-2 with an ERA of 0.97 and 59 K&#8217;s in 50 innings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He really showed he was D1 material pitching for the Saints last year in the summer leagues,&#8221; Bacon said. &#8220;That&#8217;s where they really started to notice him.\u00a0The pro scouts noticed him out there also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Temple City took a road trip earlier\u00a0this month to Las Vegas\u00a0and\u00a0Copping\u00a0had the scouts interested there as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a good story there.\u00a0We were out there playing Arbor View who is a really good team and all the scouts were there to see this kid from Arbor View,&#8221; Bacon said. &#8220;Then Corey goes out and pitches a heckuva game and the scouts were saying &#8216;Who&#8217;s this kid?\u00a0Why didn&#8217;t we know about him before?&#8217; He really got noticed out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UCLA and Pepperdine have also\u00a0expressed interest\u00a0but\u00a0Oklahoma and Santa Barbara\u00a0are the ones who have brought the serious offers\u00a0Bacon confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Copping is expected to make a decision with in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Temple City) &#8211;\u00a0Temple City pitcher\u00a0Corey Copping has\u00a0received\u00a0a scholarship offer to\u00a0pitch for the\u00a0University of Oklahoma\u00a0Ram Coach Barry Bacon\u00a0confirmed Thursday.<\/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":[7461,2258,2553,7462,7464,7463,7427,539],"class_list":["post-23640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-arbor-view","tag-barry-bacon","tag-corey-copping","tag-oklahoma-baseball","tag-pepperdine","tag-santa-barbara","tag-temple-city-baseball","tag-ucla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640","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=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23642,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions\/23642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}