{"id":1863,"date":"2009-01-05T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:49","slug":"wirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/05\/wirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Wirth &#039;10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72wirth_9479.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72wirth_9479.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Sean Wirth &#039;10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Wirth<\/strong> moved into the starting lineup for the Bates men&#8217;s basketball team on Dec. 6 at Bowdoin, scoring 7 points to go with 8 rebounds. Since then, the 6-foot-7 forward\/center from Barrington, R.I., has been the Bobcats&#8217; primary force under the boards, averaging 9.0 points and 8.8 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per game while shooting an impressive 60 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wirth earned the first accolades of his Bates career last weekend as he played a key role in the Bobcats claiming the title at the Springfield College Naismith Classic.\u00a0 Wirth&#8217;s 19 points, 15 rebounds, 2 blocked shots and .545 field goal percentage in a mere 32 minutes of floor time led to a nod on the all-tournament team, along with tournament MVP and teammate <strong>Chris Wilson<\/strong> (Brewer, Maine).<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Wirth, who is also a standout tight end on the football team, leads the 6-4 Bobcats in rebounding (6.3 rpg), field goal percentage (.600) and blocked shots (9), while contributing 6.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x188177.xml\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Wirth moved into the starting lineup for the Bates men&#8217;s basketball team on Dec. 6 at Bowdoin, scoring 7 points to go with 8 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1263,1758,11035],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-basketball","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89107,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/89107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}