{"id":2038,"date":"2013-08-16T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:00:08","slug":"kennett-kings-continue-royal-ride-to-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Kings continue royal ride to semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eastern Regional Champs will play Hawaii team Friday morning<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
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\"SLWordSeries-300x234\"<\/a>After a painful loss Wednesday night to Chitre Little League of Panama \u2013 a game that saw their catcher carried out on a stretcher \u2013 the fortunes of the Kennett Kings rebounded on Thursday.<\/p>\n

With an assist from the team that beat them the night before, the Eastern Regional Champions secured a berth in the semi-finals of the Little League Senior Division World Series after Panama defeated Texas 2-1 Thursday night. KAU will face off against Pearl City Little League of Hawaii at 11:30 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

Although the team will have to play without starting catcher Eric Duerr, it learned that his injuries were not as severe as feared. Duerr, the son of KAU manager Todd Duerr, was hurt during Wednesday night\u2019s game when he collided with Panama\u2019s Javier Garcia, who was trying to score on a single to center.<\/p>\n

Team officials said the catcher had both a CT scan and an MRI at a local hospital, revealing a concussion, but no spinal injury. Duerr was released from the hospital early Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mood went from devastated to hopeful in less than 24 hours,\u201d said KAU coach \u00a0Mike Pechin. \u201cWhen Eric [Duerr] \u00a0came back to the hotel, and the team saw him awake and alert, it changed their team\u2019s entire tone.This is a team that if they stay confident and give them a good reason to be focused, they are difficult to beat. The semifinals and Eric\u2019s being back give them a reason to focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pechin described Hawaii as a fast and strong defensive team. \u00a0\u201dThey are a very sound fundamental team and know how to play the game,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we show any weakness, they will take advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other semi-final matchup on Friday will pit Panama\u2019s Chitre Little League against Georgia\u2019s Martinez-Evans at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eastern Regional Champs will play Hawaii team Friday morning After a painful loss Wednesday night to Chitre Little League of Panama \u2013 a game that saw their catcher carried out on a stretcher \u2013 the fortunes of the Kennett Kings rebounded on Thursday. With an assist from the team that beat them the night before, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,13,1],"tags":[1603,1604,1605,1587,1606],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-eastern-regional-champions","tag-eric-duerr","tag-kennett-kings","tag-little-league-senior-division-world-series","tag-todd-duerr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}