{"id":805,"date":"2016-02-08T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/furman-runs-by-catamounts-87-3\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:59:47","slug":"furman-runs-by-catamounts-87-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-runs-by-catamounts-87-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman runs by Catamounts 87-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4351\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09.12-wcu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4351 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 577px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 577\/392;border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"09.12 wcu\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09.12-wcu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"392\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Rossano scored three trys against WCU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Furman men\u2019s rugby team scored early and often during an 87-3 win over Western Carolina Saturday at Roberts Field.<\/p>\n<p>Played before a Family Weekend crowd, Nick Rossano, the first recipient of the Furman Rugby Fund Scholarship program, notched the first try eight minutes into the game.\u00a0 From there, the forward dominated Catamounts had no answer for the dynamic Paladin backline.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Austin Armor (freshman), Turner Morsches (sophomore), Connor Wilson (freshman) and Zach Roberts (a high school senior who will enroll at Furman next fall), the Paladin backline blistered \u00a0the WCU team, seeming to score at will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWCU has traditionally played a real forward-oriented game,\u201d said Furman Coach John Roberts.\u00a0 \u201cOur plan was to spread the field.\u00a0 I know WCU did not travel with their best side, and I am looking forward to a more competitive game against them in the spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the margin of victory was wide, Roberts said the Paladins must be more aggressive at the ruck point.\u00a0 \u00a0WCU and the Paladins battled to a draw at the ruck point, scrums and line outs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of new forwards and they are a bit hesitant at the tackle point,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cThey lack aggressiveness. Hopefully that will come with confidence. But we must do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins will host Davidson College at noon, Saturday at Roberts Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman men\u2019s rugby team scored early and often during an 87-3 win over Western Carolina Saturday at Roberts Field.<\/p>\n<p>Played  before a Family Weekend crowd, Nick Rossano, the first recipient of the  Furman Rugby Fund Scholarship program, notched the first try eight  minutes into the game.\u00a0 From there, the forward dominated Catamounts had  no answer for the dynamic Paladin backline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-athletics","category-rugby","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}