{"id":113688,"date":"2018-03-09T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=113688"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:49:48","slug":"video-youth-is-served-and-this-sophomore-serves-up-a-wicked-fastball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/09\/video-youth-is-served-and-this-sophomore-serves-up-a-wicked-fastball\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Youth is served, and this young softballer serves up the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a rookie Bates pitcher in 2017, Kirsten Pelletier &#8217;20 of Sidney, Maine, struck out 83 batters, third most in Bates softball history.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s now just a sophomore. But on a pitching staff that comprises her and two first-years, Pelletier is the wise veteran.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2018 Bates College Softball Season Preview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aqqdD5GnS8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really cool that I\u2019m only a sophomore and I get to help the first-years out,&#8221; said Pelletier. &#8220;We went on a pitchers\u2019 date the other day and I took them out for ice cream and I just wanted to get to know them better and just let them know that I am a resource for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team is now in Florida on a spring trip, where Pelletier <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\/sports\/sball\/2017-18\/releases\/20180306wfdtfd\">tossed a no-hitter vs. North Central University <\/a>on Tuesday. It&#8217;s the first full seven-inning no-hitter this century; the last no-hitter was a five-inning perfect game in 2013 by Caroline Gattuso &#8217;13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Pelletier, a Mainer from Sidney, is just a sophomore. But on a pitching staff that comprises her and two first-years, she&#8217;s the wise veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":113692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[10923,10834],"class_list":["post-113688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-softball","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113709,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113688\/revisions\/113709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}