{"id":3415,"date":"2023-03-16T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2024-04-18T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:36:18","slug":"eros-victorious-in-epic-challenge-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/eros-victorious-in-epic-challenge-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Eros victorious in epic Challenge Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Top Flintshire club Eros (at -11) met Division 2\u2019s Connah\u2019s Quay for a mammoth battle, with Eros having to make 19 points to reach Connah\u2019s Quay\u2019s +8 handicap.  First and second mixed drew 1:1 and victory went to Eros in third and fourth mixed by only a few points in each game.  Emma Paton and Aarthy Aravind had a convincing win over Eros\u2019s first women and with both men\u2019s resulting in a draw the match ended 10:6 with the Challenge Cup going to Eros.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3465 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-32x24.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eros-Cup-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--awb-bg-color-hover); color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform);\">In the Plate, closely matched Rossett and Buckley, met for the third time this season.  At the end of the mixed doubles the match was neck and neck 4:4.  Rossett\u2019s Sue Lord, Nicola Smith, Emma Hilton and Jane Liddle took all four games in women\u2019s and in the men\u2019s Buckley\u2019s Steve Eltham, Rob Bishop, Ben Betts and Callum Sant took all four games.  At 8:8 the winners were decided on points. The Plate went to Buckley who beat Rossett by 20 points (278:258).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-32x24.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rossett-R-up-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3470 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-32x24.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buckley-Plate-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: var(--awb-bg-color);\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: var(--awb-bg-color-hover);\">t\u2019s been a fantastic tournament and all of the games through the Cup have been played in great spirit.  It&#8217;s good to be back and see badminton thriving again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging.newbl.co.uk\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}