{"id":101,"date":"2013-06-15T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-06-16T00:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T05:13:51","slug":"grand-valley-wins-fifth-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Grand Valley Wins Fifth Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/files\/2013\/06\/nationals-champ-2013.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-102\" alt=\"nationals-champ-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/files\/2013\/06\/nationals-champ-2013.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Grand Valley was able to successfully win their fifth National Championship, their first since 2010, with a 3-0 win over Michigan State in the National Championship Game. Led by Mark Trippiedi (GVSU #8-C), the Lakers went 6-1 on the weekend. On Saturday, GV beat Northwestern State 7-0 and Miami (OH) 6-0, but were defeated by James Madison 2-1. The Lakers would earn the sixth seed on Sunday, playing #11 Bowling Green in the first round. GV took care of business 5-0 in that game, gaining the right to play #3 JMU once again. The Lakers got their revenge in a big way, with a 4-1 victory over the Dukes. This set up a showdown that everyone had been clamoring for all season, GVSU vs #2 Kentucky. With tons of UK fans in attendance, GVSU would win 4-1. The win ensured GVSU their 6th National Championship appearance in seven seasons, and they would play a team they&#8217;ve never lost to before: #5 Michigan State. The Championship Game was never really in doubt, as the Lakers rolled over the Spartans with a 3-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>GVSU had four players named to the All Star Game: Mark Trippiedi (GVSU #8), Dylan Fettig (GVSU #24), Jeremy Stempky (GVSU #15), and Kevin Bailey (GVSU #4). Stempky would have to be replaced by Vince Baggett (GVSU #9) due to him not arriving until Sunday. The Lakers also had four first team All-Nationals players, led by MVP Mark Trippiedi. He was joined by Fettig, Stempky, and Bailey on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Valley was able to successfully win their fifth National Championship, their first since 2010, with a 3-0 win over Michigan State in the National Championship Game. Led by Mark Trippiedi (GVSU #8-C), the Lakers went 6-1 on the weekend. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/?p=101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/nationals2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}