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In his first opening day start in his five-year Northwoods League career, Berkenpas shined as the most veteran member of the Growlers staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Line:<\/strong> 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 12 K &#8211; 78.6% First Pitch Strike %<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of four Growlers All-Star pitchers in 2024, Berkenpas was one of four returners from the 2022 Championship season and one of 16 different returners from the 2023 team.<\/p>\n<p>The Growlers continue their four-game series later today on the first of two education days. First pitch is scheduled for 11:05 a.m. as Tyler Papenbrock matches sup against Dylan Petrey.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u00a0 Kalamazoo, Mich. &#8211; Kalamazoo\u00a0Growlers opening day starter Jerad Berkenpas was announced\u00a0Tuesday morning as the Northwoods League Pitcher  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-player-news","category-team-news"],"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>Jerad Berkenpas Named Opening Day Pitcher of the Night - 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