{"id":380468,"date":"2024-03-29T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=380468"},"modified":"2024-03-30T01:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T01:02:24","slug":"collision-alert-mason-marchand-holds-on-for-a-terrific-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=380468","title":{"rendered":"Collision alert: Mason Marchand holds on for a terrific catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Marchand might just be getting a call from Illinois football head coach Bret Bielema tomorrow. The center fielder certainly knows how to make a catch and hold onto the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacohi.net\/\">Washington Community High School<\/a> (Washington, Illinois), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectgame.org\/Players\/PlayerProfile.aspx?ID=1296612\">Marchand<\/a> made an impressive catch while running into his left fielder Gabe Perez. Both players covered some good ground to get in on the play but Marchand was impressive in getting a good break on what was some solid contact from Seth Harmon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/il\/chillicothe\/illinois-valley-central-grey-ghosts\/baseball\/\">Illinois Valley Central<\/a> (Chillicothe, Illinois).<\/p>\n<p>Marchand broke well towards the left-center gap and just beat Perez to the ball. Both players went towards the ball at full speed.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of trying to make a play, Perez laid out Marchand, who went flying to the ground. Despite a pretty decent thud, Marchand did not drop the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scary moment here. Seth Harmon lofts a sac fly to LF for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wacohibaseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wacohibaseball<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivcbaseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ivcbaseball<\/a> CF Mason Marchand and LF Gabe Perez collide and Marchand STILL MAKES THE CATCH ON HIS BACK! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCTop10?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SCTop10<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNAssignDesk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPNAssignDesk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aJrPORLLh0\">pic.twitter.com\/aJrPORLLh0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diggle&#8217;s Diamonds (@DigglesDiamonds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DigglesDiamonds\/status\/1773832408044843280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Come to think of it, Bielema might be interested in Perez too. After all, Perez never left his feet, there was no targeting and he delivered a wicked hit on the play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There was a great catch made in an Illinois high school baseball game on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380470,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380468\/revisions\/380470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}