{"id":17445,"date":"2025-07-10T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:22:14","slug":"ladies-vets-reach-plate-final-in-debut-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/ladies-vets-reach-plate-final-in-debut-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies Vets Reach Plate Final in Debut Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our newly formed North Down Ladies Vets team , a great mix of current players, returning faces and some new talent, kicked off their season at the end of April with a friendly against Bangor Vets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, they began their Vets Plate campaign with a strong 2-0 win over Bangor, moving them into the next round where they faced Team Wicked. After a tense first half with no goals, Keri Portinga broke the deadlock with a fantastic run and cross, which Heather Kinnier finished to put North Down ahead. The match ended 1-1, but the ladies held their nerve and won 2-1 in the run-ins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They went on to beat NICS in the semi-final, earning a well-deserved place in the final against Dromore. Despite a brilliant effort, they narrowly lost 2-1 to a young and energetic Dromore side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fantastic first season for our Ladies Vets, well done to all involved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our newly formed North Down Ladies Vets team , a great mix of current players, returning faces and some new talent, kicked off their season at the end of April with a friendly against Bangor Vets. In June, they began their Vets Plate campaign with a strong 2-0 win over Bangor, moving them into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ladies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}