{"id":131405,"date":"2020-05-20T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=131405"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:39:37","slug":"plug-pulled-on-locos-glscl-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/05\/20\/plug-pulled-on-locos-glscl-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug pulled on &#8217;20 Locos, GLSCL baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no Lima Locos or Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League baseball this summer due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GLSCL_Logo_2015_6-e1589981701366.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131407\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting government regulations, the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Board of Directors has voted to cancel the 2020 season,\u201d the league said on its website. \u201cThe directors determined it would be impossible to operate effectively while insuring the safety of all involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The league is expected to return in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Locos are defending champions of the GLSCL, which has 12 teams, including the Celina based Grand Lakes Mariners and the Richmond, Indiana Jazz, the Cincinnati Steam and a new team, the Sandusky Ice Haulers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players are not paid so they can maintain their NCAA eligibility, and the GLSCL follows NCAA rules. The league is sanctioned and supported by Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports There will be no Lima Locos or Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League baseball this summer due to the coronavirus. \u201cIn light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting government regulations, the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Board of Directors has voted to cancel the 2020 season,\u201d the league said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 18:27:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}