{"id":64590,"date":"2016-07-22T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/bass-fishing-superstar-kvd-survives-tiebreaker\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:17:34","slug":"bass-fishing-superstar-kvd-survives-tiebreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/bass-fishing-superstar-kvd-survives-tiebreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bass fishing superstar KVD survives tiebreaker, will fish for title in WNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/sports\/bass-fishing-superstar-kvd-survives-tiebreaker-will-fish-for-title-in-wny-20160721'>Bass fishing superstar KVD survives tiebreaker, will fish for title in WNY<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Kevin VanDam, the all-time money leader in bass fishing history known more by his KVD nickname, advanced to the six-hour title round in dramatic fashion Thursday, edging Koby Kreiger via tiebreaker. Brett Hite had an easier time cruising into the final, dispatching Dean Rojas in what\u2019s considered a blowout.<\/p>\n<p>VanDam (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Kreiger (Bokeelia, Fla.) both finished with five catches for a total weight of 11 pounds. However, VanDam advanced because his heaviest fish weighed more than Kreiger\u2019s best catch.<\/p>\n<p>Hite, who\u2019s from Phoenix, Ariz., dispatched Rojas as his top five catches weighed 13.9 pounds while Rojas\u2019 tallied 7.14.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Friday\u2019s match not only earns $10,000 but also receives a berth in the 2017 Geico Bassmaster Classic. The competitors will fish from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with bassmasters.com broadcasting the match online.<\/p>\n<p>VanDam has 22 first-place finishes on his resume while Hite has one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass fishing superstar KVD survives tiebreaker, will fish for title in WNY Kevin VanDam, the all-time money leader in bass fishing history known more by his KVD nickname, advanced to the six-hour title round in dramatic fashion Thursday, edging Koby Kreiger via tiebreaker. Brett Hite had an easier time cruising into the final, dispatching Dean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,360,422,526,516],"class_list":["post-64590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bass","tag-bass-fishing","tag-kevin-vandam","tag-kvd","tag-outdoorsfirst","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}