{"id":3482,"date":"2016-02-29T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:46:06","slug":"falcons-baseball-starts-15th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/falcons-baseball-starts-15th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon\u2019s Baseball starts 15th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Falcon baseball program is marking its 15th season with Tim Touma as Head Baseball Coach. In its 13 years with Touma at the helm, Falcon baseball has won four Mid-Florida Conference championships.\u00a0 Additionally, the Falcons are seven-time NJCAA National Academic Award recipients, posting the highest grade point average nationally. Home games for the team are at 1 p.m. March 16 (vs. Santa Fe Community College); 3 p.m. March 21 (vs. St. Johns River State College); and 1 p.m. March 26 (vs. Florida State College, Jacksonville).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baseball-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"DSC vs FSC: l-r Dalyn Jones, J. Fitzpatrl (FSC), Umpire\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baseball-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baseball-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baseball-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/baseball-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DSC vs FSC: l-r Dalyn Jones, J. Fitzpatrl (FSC), Umpire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pitching coach and Falcon recruiting coordinator Chris Reilly returns to the Daytona State staff for his ninth season. In addition, Brad Gero, a former Falcon standout is the newest member to join the Daytona State coaching staff. \u00a0Gero\u2019s responsibilities will be training the outfielders along with assisting with the Falcon Developmental Baseball Program. Freshmen All-Conference returners for the Falcons for the 2016 season are Tivon Faneyte, Justin Franklin, and Drew Peden. Returning on the mound for Daytona State, are two sophomore pitchers, Drew Peden and Gage Hutchinson. The Falcons are setting their eyes set on attaining another National Academic Award in 2016, along with a return trip to the FCSAA State Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Falcons led the nation academically with a 3.66 team accumulative grade point average.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Falcon baseball program is marking its 15th season with Tim Touma as Head Baseball Coach. In its 13 years with Touma at the helm, Falcon baseball has won four Mid-Florida Conference championships.\u00a0 Additionally, the Falcons are seven-time NJCAA National Academic Award recipients, posting the highest grade point average <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/falcons-baseball-starts-15th-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Falcon\u2019s Baseball starts 15th year<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}