{"id":14926,"date":"2016-05-23T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:37:40","slug":"unionville-rugby-sevens-wins-pair-of-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14926","title":{"rendered":"Unionville Rugby Sevens wins pair of matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/UHSRugbySevens-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"The Unionville Rugby Sevens team.\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Unionville Rugby Sevens team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unionville Boys Rugby sent two teams to compete in the Under 19 bracket at the Subaru 7\u2019s Tournament in Delaware this weekend \u2014 posting key victories in the Rugby Sevens tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Unlike more traditional rugby \u2014 which features 15 to a side \u2014 Sevens uses seven players per side and features a much faster pace of play. For the first time, Rugby Sevens will played at the 2016 Olympics \u2014 as the sport grows in worldwide popularity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Embracing this new Sevens movement, the Unionville A-Side went 4-1 to secure the Boy\u2019s U19 Plate Prize (3<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>rd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Place).\u00a0 The final win was a hard fought 10-7 victory over Salesianum (Del.) School.\u00a0 Unionville had more than 20 players compete for the two teams.\u00a0 The tournament was a tune up for the upcoming High School Rugby 7\u2019s Championship that will be held at Talen Energy Stadium\u00a0in Chester on June 3 to 5<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unionville Boys Rugby sent two teams to compete in the Under 19 bracket at the Subaru 7\u2019s Tournament in Delaware this weekend \u2014 posting key victories in the Rugby Sevens tournament. Unlike more traditional rugby \u2014 which features 15 to a side \u2014 Sevens uses seven players per side and features a much faster pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5953,7431,611],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-rugby","tag-sevens","tag-unionville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}