{"id":1060,"date":"2010-09-23T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-09-23T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:30:35","slug":"piedra-vistas-dominic-moreno-and-other-baseball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1060","title":{"rendered":"Piedra Vista&#8217;s Dominic Moreno and other baseball news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dominic Moreno<\/strong>, of Piedra Vista High School and the StrikeZone Cardinals, attended <strong>USA Baseball\u2019s NTIS<\/strong> as a representative of the Mountain West region to compete for a spot with the U18 National Team.\u00a0 He was not selected, but we all expect Dom to be one of the most heavily recruited players the 4-Corners region has ever produced.\u00a0 He does everything well.\u00a0 Low-90\u2019s velocity with excellent command, a hammer breaker, and a highly advanced feel for a change with outstanding fade.<\/p>\n<p>He will be hitting cleanup all year for PV just like he did nearly all of last year during the school\u2019s title run.\u00a0 He can play both corner spots adequately and is athletic enough to stay at third or move to right if called upon to do so.\u00a0 Perhaps the most impressive part is the kid\u2019s IQ.\u00a0 He does very well in school and will probably finish as an Honor Grad.\u00a0 He applies this intelligence to the game like no player his age I have ever met.\u00a0 Someone is going to be very glad they signed Dominic Moreno.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Grinnell has another very impressive class of freshmen this year representing every corner of the country as well as the Midwest and Hawaii.\u00a0 We all are expecting another run to the MWC title game.<\/p>\n<p>Eli is headed to Albany, NY, this summer.\u00a0 No word on where any of the other Cards are going to be yet.\u00a0 Speaking of the Cards, Shane Woodson, one of our two 16\u2019s last summer, has established himself as the premier striker in New Mexico AAAA this soccer season.\u00a0 It will be very interesting to see which sport he eventually chooses.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Moreno, of Piedra Vista High School and the StrikeZone Cardinals, attended USA Baseball\u2019s NTIS as a representative of the Mountain West region to compete for a spot with the U18 National Team.\u00a0 He was not selected, but we all expect Dom to be one of the most heavily recruited players the 4-Corners region has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,8,9,10],"tags":[869,865,3459,49,708,867,242,244,628,868,866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}