{"id":317,"date":"2012-04-27T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-04-27T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:26:20","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-apr-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2012\/04\/27\/athletes-of-the-week-apr-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week &#8211; Apr. 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0342diaz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-318 alignnone\" title=\"2012-Brandon-Diaz-Athlete-Week\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0342diaz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0342diaz.jpg\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0266sylvia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319 alignnone\" title=\"2012-Jay-Sylvia-Athlete-Week\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0266sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Diaz \u201912 and Jay Sylvia \u201812<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong>Against Millbrook on Saturday, seniors Brandon Diaz and Jay Sylvia were outstanding at <strong><\/strong>the plate. Diaz went 3-3 with two home runs, four RBI, and two walks, <strong><\/strong>while\u00a0Sylvia went 4-5 <strong><\/strong>including three home runs and seven RBI. Sylvia currently has a .350 batting average, a 1.000 slugging <strong><\/strong>percentage and five home runs so far this season. Diaz, with four <strong><\/strong>home runs, has a .474 batting average. Diaz and Sylvia have both hit home runs in three of the team\u2019s seven games thus far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabby Thomas \u201815<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0236thomas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"2012-Gabby-Thomas-Athlete-Week\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2012\/04\/DSC_0236thomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA week ago in the girls\u2019 track team\u2019s season opening meet against Vermont and Cheshire, Gabby set a school record in the triple jump with a leap of 35&#8217;6&#8243; surpassing the old record by almost two feet. Last weekend, at the Deerfield Relays Gabby cleared 5&#8217;0&#8243; which is a personal best by 4&#8243; and is only 3\u201d from the school record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay Brennan \u201815<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JV Baseball standout, Jay Brennan, went 3-3 with two doubles, a single and a stolen base in last Wednesday\u2019s match-up against Eaglebrook. In Saturday\u2019s seventh-inning comeback win over Rectory, Jay was 2-4 with one run, one RBI, two stolen bases and a number of great defensive plays in the field. On the week Jay was 5-7 with two doubles, three stolen bases, a run and a RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Diaz \u201912 and Jay Sylvia \u201812 Against Millbrook on Saturday, seniors Brandon Diaz and Jay Sylvia were outstanding at the plate. Diaz went 3-3 with two home runs, four RBI, and two walks, while\u00a0Sylvia went 4-5 including three home runs and seven RBI. Sylvia currently has a .350 batting average, a 1.000 slugging percentage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2012\/04\/27\/athletes-of-the-week-apr-23rd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week &#8211; Apr. 23rd<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[260,251,254,259,257,256,258,253,252,255],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-of-the-week","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-boarding-school","tag-high-school","tag-independent-school","tag-new-england","tag-prep-school","tag-sports","tag-track","tag-williston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}