{"id":18557,"date":"2012-05-24T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-rugby-team-wins-at-state\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:15:29","slug":"kent-rugby-team-wins-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-rugby-team-wins-at-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Rugby team wins at state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>For the first time in 25 years, the Valley Joey&#8217;s rugby club became the Washington U19 boy&#8217;s state champions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The group of 20 kids are from Kentridge and Kentwood High School, ages 14-18. They are one of two team&#8217;s from Kent playing for the championship.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;There was so much excitement, especially because the game was so close,&#8221; said Phillip Richmond, parent. &#8220;The boys and coaches were crying and hugging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The final game score was 7 to 5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The most amazing thing to me was that the boys were all really focused on teamwork and respected the other teams,&#8221; Richmond said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Valley Joeys are a U-19 boys high school rugby club. The league is expanding this year to incorporate U-16 and U-14 teams.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Valley has been a part of Washington Youth Rugby since 1987.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Valley Rugby is a 501(c) 3 Not-for-profit company.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 25 years, the Valley Joey&#8217;s rugby club became the Washington U19 boy&#8217;s state champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":18558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}