{"id":3256,"date":"2014-10-28T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2014\/10\/28\/furman-advances-to-src-final-four\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:45:04","slug":"furman-advances-to-src-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/furman-advances-to-src-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman advances to SRC Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/budd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15067 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"budd\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/budd-medium.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Furman will be one of four teams to participate in the Southern Rugby Conference Final Four this weekend on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins (4-1 in the SRC) will open the event with a 1 p.m. game against East Carolina University (4-1). \u00a0UNC-Wilmington will face off against Appalachian State in a 3 p.m. contest. Saturday\u2019s losers advance to the consolation game 11 a.m., Sunday. The SRC Championship game will kick at 1 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be played on recreation field 12, which is located near the track and field complex. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityparent.com\/university-of-north-carolina-at-charlotte\/articles\/maps-contact-info\/unc-charlotte-campus-map\/\">UNCC Parent Page<\/a> for a downloadable map.<\/p>\n<p>Furman, <a href=\"http:\/\/usarugby.org\/college-news\/item\/men-s-college-division-ii-week-one-rankings\">currently ranked 22 in the nation by USA Rugby<\/a>, suffered its only loss Oct. 18 in nail biter against three-time SRC champion Wilmington 48-38.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two weeks, the Paladins have been focusing on offensive timing and set pieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had some good practices,\u201d says Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cWe are really healthy now and should be entering the tournament at full strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Furman finished third in SRC.\u00a0 Wilmington and Appalachian State have advanced to all four SRC final fours. The conference winner will advance to USA Rugby Regional Play-offs to be held November 15-16 at James Madison University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman will be one of four teams to participate in the Southern Rugby Conference Final Four this weekend on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus. The Paladins (4-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}