{"id":16806,"date":"2024-05-21T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/badlands-big-sticks\/?p=16806"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:07:58","slug":"northeast-phenom-signs-with-big-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/badlands-big-sticks\/2024\/05\/21\/northeast-phenom-signs-with-big-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Phenom Signs with Big Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1655.68px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Dickinson, ND- <\/strong>The Badlands Big Sticks have announced the signing of right-handed-pitcher Oliver Ward to the team\u2019s 2024 roster.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound sophomore from Mill Creek, Washington, currently attends Northeast Community College (Norfolk, Nebraska). This past season, Ward has appeared in 13 games (67.0 IPs), recording 72 strikeouts (9.67 K\/9), with an ERA of 2.82. He ended the season with a 7-1 record.<\/p>\n<p>Ward is a graduate of North Creek High School where he was a four-year varsity starter. His freshman season at Northeast, he earned a place on the Fall Academic All-Region Team and 1st Team All Region Team.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":16807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,35,57,56,55,39],"class_list":["post-16806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-official-releases","tag-big-sticks","tag-dickinson","tag-mill-creek","tag-northeast-cc","tag-oliver-ward","tag-pitcher"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northeast Phenom 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