{"id":369698,"date":"2022-06-03T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=369698"},"modified":"2022-06-03T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:01:09","slug":"40-take-part-in-uog-baseball-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/40-take-part-in-uog-baseball-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"40 take part in UOG baseball clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_369695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369695\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UOG-pixwb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UOG-pixwb.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of University of Guam\u2019s \u201cSummer 2022 Baseball Clinics\u201d join coaches and other volunteers during the event last week at the Capitol Hill Softball Field. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 40 players took part in the University of Guam\u2019s \u201cSummer 2022 Baseball Clinics\u201d held last Thursday and Friday at the Capitol Hill Softball Field.<\/p>\n<p>Triton Baseball Team head coach Roke Alcantara said after the two-day clinic they\u2019ve zeroed on two prospects\u2014Ton Narita and Isaiah Teigita.<\/p>\n<p>The coach said Narita and Teigita are utility players who can play any position and both have really good fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the two Alcantara said that his group in general was impressed with what the 40 players who took part in the clinic brought to the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtremely talented and I was very impressed with their fundamentals and arm strength. That this is an awesome opportunity for them if they are passionate about the sports we offer and are committed to pursuing their education with a university that is so close to home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the baseball clinic part, Alcantara said they taught the fundamentals of baseball like how to properly warm-up, and stretch as well as pointers on fielding defense and drills for hitting. <\/p>\n<p>After the two-day clinic on Saipan, Alcantara\u2019s team boarded  a plane to Tinian and also conducted a clinic there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also planted the seeds with those potential scholar-athletes that are going into their senior year of high school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Alcantara in UOG\u2019s \u201cSummer 2022 Baseball Clinics\u201d on Saipan and Tinian were UOG Enrollment Management &amp; Student Success dean Lawrence Camacho, UOG Athletics director Douglas Palmer, and UOG  Residence Halls director Mark Mendiola. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 40 players took part in the University of Guam\u2019s \u201cSummer 2022 Baseball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":369694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-369698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}