{"id":90725,"date":"2024-02-05T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=90725"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:22:02","slug":"badgers-curling-team-books-ticket-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/02\/badgers-curling-team-books-ticket-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers curling team books ticket to nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Badgers men&#8217;s curling team is heading to the national championships.<\/p>\n<p>Skip Owen Henry, vice Victor Pietrangelo, second Sean Kirkland, lead Patrick Sipura and alternate Daniel Krowchuk captured a silver medal at the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Men\u2019s Curling Championships in Guelph on Sunday, Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Their performance qualifies them for the U SPORTS Championship in Fredericton, N.B., from Tuesday, March 12 to Saturday, March 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The key to success was our team chemistry,&#8221; said Brock men\u2019s curling coach Jordan Thin. &#8220;The joy and ease with which the men&#8217;s team have both on and off the ice is the reason we win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brock posted a record of 6-1 over the weekend, including a 5-3 semifinal victory over the hosts, the Guelph Gryphons.<\/p>\n<p>The team dropped only one contest, losing 6-3 to the defending champions, the Laurier Golden Hawks, in the gold medal match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means so much to me to play so well all week and lead this team of my three friends to an OUA silver medal,&#8221; said Henry, a second-year Statistics student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Badgers men&#8217;s curling team is heading to the national championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,58],"tags":[256,766,7703,4620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90728,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90725\/revisions\/90728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}