{"id":3980,"date":"2009-05-06T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/beach-crew-wira-grand-finals-update\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T06:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:13:00","slug":"beach-crew-wira-grand-finals-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/beach-crew-wira-grand-finals-update","title":{"rendered":"Beach Crew WIRA Grand Finals Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo5886296.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>   <!--StartFragment-->       <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Just got a followup email from Long Beach State Crew coach Brian Counter&mdash;the three  teams that qualified for the Grand Finals in the WIRA championship on Sunday  placed pretty well!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Varsity Women&#8217;s Lightweight 4 (All rowers have to  be&nbsp;&gt;130 pounds)&nbsp;finished 3rd in the conference&nbsp;to Cal  Berkeley and Western Washington. That&rsquo;s the same team that took second in the  novice lightweight race last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Women&#8217;s Novice Lightweight&nbsp;finished sixth in the  race&nbsp;(All rowers have to be&nbsp;&gt;130 pounds and in there first year of  rowing).<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The top three were Cal,  Puget Sound University and UC Irvine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Men Lightweight Four (All rowers have to be 160 and the  average of the boat has to be under 155) finished fifth 5th. Top 3 were Cal,  Sonoma State and Loyola Marymount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All other boats were in the petite finals, which means they  placed between 7th and 14th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Congrats to these 49ers on a successful weekend&mdash;they deserve  more recognition than they get, and placing so high against big-money schools  is a true accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>       <!--EndFragment-->                     <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on where the Crew teams finished in their championship races over the weekend.<\/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-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}