{"id":3246,"date":"2014-10-27T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/homecoming-2014-its-a-wrap\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:43:28","slug":"homecoming-2014-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/homecoming-2014-its-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2014: It&#8217;s a wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15038\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_6616.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15038\" class=\"wp-image-15038 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/IMG_6616-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Victor and a fan. (photo by Jordan Allums '18)\" width=\"273\" height=\"181\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 273px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 273\/181;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor and a fan. (photo by Jordan Allums &#8217;18)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman\u00a0compiled a series of triumphs on Friday when men\u2019s soccer crushed ETSU 3\u20130, women\u2019s soccer defeated UNCG 4\u20131, and volleyball beat Mercer 3\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the volleyball team was again victorious with a 3\u20130 win against The Citadel. The rugby team hosted their annual alumni game in which the alumni team, which included a few Furman upperclassmen, triumphed over the current team 65-17.\u00a0 Sadly, the football squad fell to the Samford Bulldogs 45\u20130 during a heartbreaking homecoming football game. With this loss, the Paladins drop to a record of 2-6 overall and 1\u20132 in the Southern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime, Coady Shovlain and Sara Kathryn DeVenny were crowned Furman\u2019s Homecoming king and queen.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the spirit week competitions were announced during the game. Both the spirit award and the t-shirt award were presented to Kappa Alpha and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sigma Chi and Alpha Delta Pi won the chalking contest while Sigma Nu and Delta Gamma earned the award for best banner. Beta Theta Pi and Chi Omega took the award for best float. Engaged Living stole the show with a win for their horseplay skit.<\/p>\n<p>Kappa Alpha and Kappa Kappa Gamma came in third place overall. Second place overall was awarded to Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta. The winners of Homecoming Spirit Week 2014 were Beta Theta Pi and Chi Omega. The winners of FUSAB\u2019s Havoc Competition were also announced. Natalia Arenas took third place while Matt Reeve placed second. First place was presented to RJ McDowell. For photos of the weekend see the university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30240240@N04\/sets\/72157646618401813\/\">Flikr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u00a0compiled a series of triumphs on Friday when men\u2019s soccer crushed ETSU 3\u20130, women\u2019s soccer defeated UNCG 4\u20131, and volleyball beat Mercer 3\u20131.\u00a0On Saturday, the volleyball team was again victorious with a 3\u20130 win against The Citadel. The rugby team hosted its annual alumni game in which the alumni team, including a few Furman upperclassmen, trounced the current team 65-17.\u00a0 Sadly, the football squad fell to the Samford Bulldogs 45\u20130 during a heartbreaking homecoming football game. With this loss, the Paladins drop to a record of 2-6 overall and 1\u20132 in the SoCon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-parent-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","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=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}