{"id":5436,"date":"2019-02-06T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:33:22","slug":"mphs-fishing-teams-strive-for-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-fishing-teams-strive-for-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Fishing Teams Strive for State Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant High School Fishing Team has been active since this fall with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the state tournament.\u00a0 Most recently, the team of seniors Blake Denson and Rance White placed 2nd at Lake Bob Sandlin on February 2, 2019.\u00a0 Denson and White were just 0.72 pounds behind the 1st place team.\u00a0 They were each awarded a $500 scholarship.\u00a0 Overall, MPHS placed 2nd out of 21 schools in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Other team members contributing towards the 2nd place team finish included Tyler Welborn and Zane Phillips with a 19th place finish, Jordan Boyd and Hunter Mayfield coming in 22nd, Ethan Cota and Bryce Bartlett finishing 43rd, and Tyler Miklos and Zeth Whittington placing 71st.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, Ethan Cota won the \u201cBig Bass\u201d award for the Big Bass of the day in the Lake Palestine tournament.\u00a0 He and partner Bryce Bartlett placed 7th out of a field of 113 teams.\u00a0 Cota was awarded a plaque and a pair of Costa sunglasses for the catch.<\/p>\n<p>MPHS as a team is currently sitting in 4th place with one tournament left before Regionals.\u00a0 The team will be on the water again on March 2nd on Lake of the Pines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant High School Fishing Team has been active since this fall with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the state tournament.\u00a0 Most recently, the team of seniors Blake Denson and Rance White placed 2nd at Lake Bob Sandlin on February 2, 2019.\u00a0 Denson and White were just 0.72 pounds behind the 1st place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}