{"id":14294,"date":"2021-08-19T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=14294"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:07:36","slug":"omg-lake-gibson-hs-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/omg-lake-gibson-hs-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG! Lake Gibson HS! ESPN!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN has announced the first batch of games for this year&#8217;s High School Football Showcase, and Lake Gibson High will get the starting nod! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Braves will travel to Valdosta, Ga. to face Lowndes High for the Week 1 matchup. The Sept. 3 game airs at 8 p.m., live on ESPNU. ESPN&#8217;s press release had this to say about the Braves: &#8220;Lake Gibson had a successful 2020 season, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Florida 6A playoffs. No. 30 senior Sam McCall \u2013 ATH (FSU commit) and No. 5 junior Cormani McClain \u2013 CB provide athleticism on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/239624996_10160009786787971_8110163080526160411_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/239624996_10160009786787971_8110163080526160411_n.jpg 512w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/239624996_10160009786787971_8110163080526160411_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;According to local sources (PolkWay 863), this is the first time a Polk team has played on ESPN since Lakeland High in 2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos and good luck to LGHS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has announced the first batch of games for this year&#8217;s High School Football Showcase, and Lake Gibson High will get the starting nod! The Braves will travel to Valdosta,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[1039],"class_list":["post-14294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools-sports","tag-omg-lake-gibson-hs-espn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}