{"id":670,"date":"2015-04-19T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=670"},"modified":"2015-04-19T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:11:13","slug":"columbus-wins-ohio-valley-challenge-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Wins Ohio Valley Challenge Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to report that the Columbus Backgammon Club has won the Ohio Valley Challenge Cup with a very strong performance today. Congratulations are in order to the team:<\/p>\n<p>1. Bob Hickey<br \/>\n2. Jason Marshall<br \/>\n3. Jeff Boester<br \/>\n4. David Rearick<br \/>\n5. Mike Rezai<br \/>\n6. Jim Weitthoff<br \/>\n7. Seth Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>Each player participated in a 4-player round-robin with their counterparts from the other 3 teams at the competition &#8211; The Cincinnati Backgammon Players Club, The Dayton Backgammon Club, and the Hoosiers Backgammon Club. We scored 16 out of a possible 21 points, with 3 players posting perfect 3-0 records &#8211; Jeff Boester, Mike Rezai, and Seth Bartlett! As a result, we got to take home the traveling trophy (see attached picture) which will soon have the names of our players who competed today engraved upon it!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the final standings:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16 &#8211; 5<br \/>\nCincinnati\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 &#8211; 10<br \/>\nIndianapolis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 &#8211; 11<br \/>\nDayton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 &#8211; 16<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the team for a well-earned victory!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/OVCC_Team_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/OVCC_Team_2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OVCC_Team_2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/OVCC_Team_2015-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/OVCC_Team_2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to report that the Columbus Backgammon Club has won the Ohio Valley Challenge Cup with a very strong performance today. Congratulations are in order to the team: 1. Bob Hickey 2. Jason Marshall 3. Jeff Boester 4. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=670\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}