{"id":17887,"date":"2025-10-13T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:40:44","slug":"ladies-3s-fall-just-short-in-3-2-battle-against-nics-2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/ladies-3s-fall-just-short-in-3-2-battle-against-nics-2s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies 3s Fall Just Short in 3\u20132 Battle Against NICS 2s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ladies 3s made the short trip up the road to play NICS 2s. North started as the stronger team and were rewarded with a goal from Emily Torrens from a short corner in the first quarter. Service came out fighting in the second quarter and evened the score line with the half finishing 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Down girls returned to the pitch after half time and remained focused. A well placed pass from Judith Orr up the pitch <a><\/a>allowed for some gorgeous passing hockey from the North Down forwards with Sarah Taylor finding the back of the net. North Down were up 2-1. Service continued to apply pressure and were again rewarded with a goal to even the score line again 2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last quarter seen both sides with chances on goal and North were unfortunate not to capitalise. Luck was in NICS favour, scoring a game winning third goal with North unable to even the score before the final whistle. Final score North Down 2-3 NICS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Down girls played some lovely hockey and should be proud of their performance and determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to Sophie Stewart for umpiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Player of the match: Natalie Harrison for an outstanding performance in defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies 3s made the short trip up the road to play NICS 2s. North started as the stronger team and were rewarded with a goal from Emily Torrens from a short corner in the first quarter. Service came out fighting in the second quarter and evened the score line with the half finishing 1-1. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladies","category-match-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","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=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17889,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}