{"id":18862,"date":"2021-08-08T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/?post_type=latest-news&#038;p=18862"},"modified":"2021-08-08T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:53:58","slug":"eurasia-claim-gold-in-galway","status":"publish","type":"latest-news","link":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/latest-news\/eurasia-claim-gold-in-galway\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurasia Claim Gold in Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18862\" class=\"elementor elementor-18862\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3649bfc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3649bfc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d2cbe85\" data-id=\"d2cbe85\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0bda444 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0bda444\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18864\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-128x85.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4829-32x21.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37e9b9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37e9b9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Earlier today under near perfect conditions the VLY Beach Tour 3rd leg was held in Galway City. The Sunday event was a 4v4 mixed tournament and the first of its kind on the 2021 Tour.<\/p><p>12 teams in total from as far north as Monaghan, East as Dublin and as south as Ennis gathered in Dangan to battle it out for the title of champions.<\/p><p>After some pool play early in the morning there wasn&#8217;t any shocks to report, as all the top seeded team progressed onwards to their quarterfinals.<\/p><p>From here on in the games grew tighter and tighter. Seeded teams 1 Copaya,\u00a0 2 Eurasia, and 3 Practice Safe Sets all secured semi final spots however 4th seed Giba lost out to Kamikaze.<\/p><p>Although both semi finals went 2-0 the score lines of 21-18,22-20 and 21-19, 21-19 really showed how close all teams were on the day.<\/p><p>Kamikaze stole 3rd place\u00a0 from Practice Safe Sets after a thrilling game that had match points for both teams at one stage.<\/p><p>Eurasia just pipped Copaya by the narrowest of margins in an incredible 21-19 third and final set.<\/p><p>Thank you to all players volunteers, chefs, scorers, referees and everyone who helped make today a great event!<\/p><p>Hopefully see you all back in Galway in 2022.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":18864,"template":"","categories":[152,76,74,75,96,65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/latest-news\/18862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/latest-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/latest-news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/latest-news\/18862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volleyballireland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}