{"id":11322,"date":"2020-04-16T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2020-04-16T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:10:14","slug":"on-this-day-16th-april-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11322","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: 16th April 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this day in 2004 season saw the opening games of the season. Newport made their bow in the league, and had a baptism of fire playing Castlefields at home, who won 9-5 there. Champions Chester Road started their successful defence of the title with a 13-1 win over Donnington Wood, while Wrockwardine Wood had their game postponed against St Georges, and won the rematch 11-3. Ford scored an impressive 10-4 win at Craven Arms, with Childs Ercall winning by the same score at home to Archibald Worthington. Sir John Bayley defeated Wem USC 11-3 and Meole Brace beat Ifton 9-5.<\/p>\n

Click on the date below to see the matchcards.<\/p>\n

Fri 16th Apr<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
234<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nWrock Wood<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nSt Georges<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
191<\/td>\n5<\/td>\nNewport<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nCastlefields<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n225<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
244<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nChester Road<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nDonnington Wood<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
231<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nChilds Ercall<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nArchibald W\u2019ton<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
194<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nCraven Arms<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nFord<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
230<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nMeole Brace<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nIfton<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n223<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
239<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nSir J Bayley<\/td>\nv.<\/td>\nWem USC<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n179<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day in 2004 season saw the opening games of the season. Newport made their bow in the league, and had a baptism of fire playing Castlefields at home, who won 9-5 there. Champions Chester Road started their successful defence of the title with a 13-1 win over Donnington Wood, while Wrockwardine Wood had …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,38,182],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-2WC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11323,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}