{"id":1585,"date":"2013-09-19T16:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/19\/rugby-to-host-wcu-saturday\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:50:01","slug":"rugby-to-host-wcu-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rugby-to-host-wcu-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby to host WCU Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lineout.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6318 alignleft lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 289px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 289\/350;border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"lineout\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lineout.jpg\" width=\"289\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Furman Rugby will launch the fall season Saturday as the squad hosts Western Carolina University. The 1 p.m. game will be held at John S. Roberts Field on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins return all starters from last year\u2019s squad which completed matrix play with a 3-1 record and narrowly missed the Southern Rugby Conference Play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Seven talented freshmen will make their debut for the Paladins: Chuck McAllister-Ashley, Adam Miller (Greenville, SC), Jacob Milchuck (Raleigh, NC) Jeff Tonge (Kent, Ohio), Patrick Musau (Nairobi, Kenya) and Miles Lerner (Edina, Minn) will take to the pitch for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Furman team will be without the services of sophomore Nick Rossano, who was injured last month during an all-star college game. Rossano, the squad\u2019s most valuable forward last year, suffered a severe concussion and hematoma and was hospitalized for a week.<\/p>\n<p>While Rossano has returned to school, he will be lost for the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n<p>The well-balanced Furman roster includes four seniors, seven juniors, seven sophomores, seven freshmen and are captained by Turner Morsches (Columbia City, Ind.) and Eric Dolan (Somers, New York).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited about our team this year,\u201d says Furman head coach John Roberts. \u201cWe have an athletic team and are blessed with a bit of depth, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Rugby will launch the fall season Saturday as the squad hosts Western Carolina University. The 1 p.m. game will be held at John S. Roberts Field on the Furman campus. The Paladins return all starters from last year\u2019s squad which completed matrix play with 3-1 record and narrowly missed the Southern Rugby Conference Play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}