{"id":18300,"date":"2018-01-08T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:23:55","slug":"goulburn-claims-back-to-back-inter-regional-country-championships-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2018\/01\/08\/goulburn-claims-back-to-back-inter-regional-country-championships-titles","title":{"rendered":"Goulburn claims back-to-back Inter-regional Country Championships titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goulburn <\/strong>has stormed to victory in the <strong>2018 Inter-regional Country Championships<\/strong> at the Wodonga Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of the three-day event saw Goulburn and <strong>Barwon<\/strong> in contention for the Inter-regional Country Championships, but it was Goulburn that held firm.<\/p>\n<p>Recording 263 points, the back-to-back champions held off a gallant Barwon (242) outfit that were attempting to win their 16th championship in 19 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Lees<\/strong>, Team Manager from the Goulburn region was elated by the result and is eager to make it three in a row in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re over the moon, we dared to dream and hoped that we could pull it off \u2013 it\u2019s just fantastic,\u201d Lees said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hadn\u2019t won that [Inter-regional Country Championships] for 57 years so it was pretty special last year. So going back-to-back is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things have got to fall into place (to win a third consecutive title),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Director, <strong>Andrew Reynolds<\/strong>, was pleased with how the event went especially during the four-hour delay on Day Two due to the gruelling heat, which saw the mercury climb to 41 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not be happier with the running of the 2018 Inter-regional Country Championships despite the challenges with the extreme weather and tight schedules,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking forward to seeing Goulburn playing for their third championship in a row at the Bendigo Lawn and Bendigo Tennis Association in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>South West<\/strong> was awarded the <strong>Cooke Shield for Most Improved Region<\/strong>, which was based on their significant progression from last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2019 Inter-regional Country Championships<\/strong> is set to be hosted by <strong>Bendigo Lawn and Bendigo Tennis Association<\/strong>, which will see the 63rd instalment of the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final standings:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Goulburn 263<br \/>\nBarwon 242<br \/>\nMornington Peninsula 188<br \/>\nLoddon Campaspe 182<br \/>\nEast Gippsland 165<br \/>\nWimmera 136<br \/>\nSouth West 134<br \/>\nCentral Highlands 119<br \/>\nNorthern Mallee 99<br \/>\nNorth East 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goulburn has stormed to victory in the 2018 Inter-regional Country Championships at the Wodonga Tennis Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":18303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}