{"id":2067,"date":"2018-05-08T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:55","slug":"verduzco-becomes-all-time-wins-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/05\/08\/verduzco-becomes-all-time-wins-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Verduzco Becomes All-time Wins Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2-1 win on a walk-off single over Washburn on March 3, Head Coach Buzz Verduzco became Griffon bseball\u2019s all-time wins leader. It was his 541<sup>st<\/sup> win at Missouri Western, moving him past the only other man to ever lead the program, Doug Minnis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2068\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/JAE2323-70-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head Coach Buzz Verduzco<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Verduzco\u2019s Griffons have seen just one sub-.500 season since 2001 and only three in his 19 years leading the program. Last season marked the program\u2019s fourth trip to the NCAA Division II regional tournament and the second consecutive regional qualification. Verduzco was named MIAA Coach of the Year in 2013 after leading the program to its first MIAA regular season championship. Verduzco\u2019s 541<sup>st<\/sup> win was the first in a three-game sweep of Washburn on the way to likely yet another successful season for his Griffons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2-1 win on a walk-off single over Washburn on March 3, Head Coach Buzz Verduzco became Griffon bseball\u2019s all-time wins leader. It was his 541st win at Missouri Western, moving him past the only other man to ever lead the program, Doug Minnis. Verduzco\u2019s Griffons have seen just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}