{"id":1249,"date":"2010-05-10T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/belmont-shore-rugby-headed-to-national-championship\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T06:21:00","slug":"belmont-shore-rugby-headed-to-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/belmont-shore-rugby-headed-to-national-championship","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Shore Rugby Headed To National Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by John Fajardo<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, better late than never\u2014the Belmont Shore U19 Rugby Youth team, made up almost entirely of Moore League athletes, gave their mothers a nice present on Sunday by beating the LA Cougars for the SoCal Championship.  <\/span>The game was played Sunday afternoon after a power outage canceled the match Saturday night, but the local boys seemed to benefit from the extra night’s sleep.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

They started out slow, with a 17-8 lead at halftime, then let the Cougars come back in the early goings, but with the score at 17-15, came up with a huge Try Line (the rugby equivalent of a goal line stand) to keep the Cougars from scoring.  <\/span>Then they raced out to a 36-15 win that sends them to the national championship tourney May 21-24.  <\/span>Enjoy these great photos from John Fajardo, and prepare to hear more about this team in the coming weeks\u2014congrats to the players, coaches, and parents.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Thanks to a 36-15 win over the LA Cougars, Long Beach’s high school rugby team will be headed to the national tournament; we’ve got great photos from the game taken by John Fajardo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}