{"id":1779,"date":"2015-05-11T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:45:14","slug":"girls-water-polo-qualifies-for-nepsac-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/05\/11\/girls-water-polo-qualifies-for-nepsac-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Water Polo Qualifies for NEPSAC Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/04\/mccarthy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1725\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/04\/mccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"mccarthy\" width=\"275\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/04\/mccarthy.jpg 275w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/04\/mccarthy-250x199.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>The girls water polo team has qualified for the NEPSAC Championship tournament for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Williston earned the #3 seed\u00a0 and will host #6 seed Phillips Exeter Academy this coming Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in a quarterfinal\u00a0game, which will determine who advances to Saturday\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not qualified for the NEPSAC tournament since the .500 rule has been instituted, so this is our first invite under the current format,&#8221; noted Coach Bill Berghoff, adding that this will be Exeter&#8217;s first visit to the Williston pool.<\/p>\n<p>The Final Four will be held at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.\u00a0 Williston and Exeter split their two regular season games during the season, with Exeter winning at home and Willisotn winning at Andover.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s field of teams, as well as Saturday\u2019s schedule, is below.<\/p>\n<p>#1 Suffield Academy<br \/>\n#2 Choate Rosemary Hall<br \/>\n#3 Williston<br \/>\n#4 Loomis Chaffee<br \/>\n#5 Hopkins<br \/>\n#6 Exeter<\/p>\n<p>10:15 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Semi-Final #1 vs. #4<\/p>\n<p>11:30 a.m. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Semi-Final #2 vs. #3<\/p>\n<p>2:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Third-place game<\/p>\n<p>3:30 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Championship game<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls water polo team has qualified for the NEPSAC Championship tournament for the first time ever. Williston earned the #3 seed\u00a0 and will host #6 seed Phillips Exeter Academy this coming Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in a quarterfinal\u00a0game, which will determine who advances to Saturday\u2019s semi-finals. &#8220;We have not qualified for the NEPSAC tournament &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/05\/11\/girls-water-polo-qualifies-for-nepsac-tournament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girls Water Polo Qualifies for NEPSAC Tournament<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}