{"id":1262,"date":"2016-04-18T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2016-04-18T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:50:00","slug":"eagles-dodge-the-ball-and-take-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/post\/eagles-dodge-the-ball-and-take-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Dodge the Ball, and Take Gold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/files\/2016\/04\/Gold-Medalist-Co-Ed-.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1263\" src=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/files\/2016\/04\/Gold-Medalist-Co-Ed--600x334.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Medalist (Co-Ed)\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/files\/2016\/04\/Gold-Medalist-Co-Ed--600x334.jpg 600w, http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/files\/2016\/04\/Gold-Medalist-Co-Ed--400x222.jpg 400w, http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/files\/2016\/04\/Gold-Medalist-Co-Ed-.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0It is <strong>OFFICIAL<\/strong>&#8230; the <strong>Country Mills Eagles<\/strong> added organized <strong>Dodgeball<\/strong> to the list of various <strong>Athletic Teams!<\/strong>\u00a0Starting with <strong>Track &amp; Field<\/strong> in <strong>2001<\/strong>, the <strong>Country Mills Eagles<\/strong> have added <strong>Cross Country<\/strong>, <strong>Weight Lifting<\/strong>, <strong>Flag Football<\/strong>, and now <strong>Dodgeball<\/strong>.\u00a0 As part of the <strong>Empire State Corporate Challenge<\/strong>, which just launched in <strong>2016<\/strong>, the <strong>Country Mills Eagles<\/strong> decided to participate in as many events as they could, and see where they finished.\u00a0 The <strong>Empire State Corporate Challenge<\/strong> is the only Corporate Challenge of its kind in the entire Northeast, and incorporates several different competitions, such as <strong>Dodgeball<\/strong>, <strong>Mud Run<\/strong>, <strong>Basketball (3-on-3)<\/strong>, <strong>Softball<\/strong>, <strong>Track &amp; Field<\/strong>, <strong>5k Road Race<\/strong>, and the <strong>Great Empire Walk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8220;We have been looking to expand the number of sports we compete in each year, and the Empire State Corporate Challenge just opened the door for us to take the next step&#8221;<\/strong>, said Anthony Mills, Director of Athletics for the <strong>Country Mills Eagles Athletic Club<\/strong>.\u00a0 He added, <strong>&#8220;The more options we can offer our Athletes, the more we can help to keep them Cross Training, and NOT get caught up into just one sport all year round.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The <strong>Country Mills Eagles<\/strong> registered three <strong>(3) Teams<\/strong> for the <strong>Empire State Corporate Challenge<\/strong>, an <strong>Open Co-Ed Team<\/strong>, an <strong>Open Men&#8217;s Team<\/strong>, and a <strong>Youth Girl&#8217;s Team<\/strong>.\u00a0 The <strong>Co-Ed Team<\/strong> took <strong>1st Place<\/strong> earning the <strong>Gold Medal<\/strong> winning the best of three <strong>(3)<\/strong> in the Championship match up against the <strong>Carmen Road Mudducks<\/strong> (Fire Dept.).\u00a0 Unfortunately, the <strong>Men&#8217;s Team<\/strong> had to settle for the <strong>Bronze Medal<\/strong> losing their <strong>1st Round Match <\/strong>against <strong>Berkshire Hathaway<\/strong>, who went on to win the <strong>Gold<\/strong> in the <strong>Open Men&#8217;s Division<\/strong>.\u00a0 The <strong>Youth Girl&#8217;s<\/strong> also took <strong>1st Place<\/strong> earning the <strong>Gold Medal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The next event for the <strong>Empire State Corporate Challenge<\/strong> will be the <strong>Mud Run<\/strong>, followed by <strong>Basketball (3-on-3)<\/strong>, so for those of you that are interested in joining the <strong>Country Mills Eagles&#8217;<\/strong> programs, or wish to compete in one of those events, please notify the <strong>Event Coordinator<\/strong>, Lisa, at <strong><a href=\"mailto:ScreamingEagle@nycap.rr.com\">ScreamingEagle@nycap.rr.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It is OFFICIAL&#8230; the Country Mills Eagles added organized Dodgeball to the list of various Athletic Teams!\u00a0Starting with Track &amp; Field in 2001, the Country Mills Eagles have added Cross Country, Weight Lifting, Flag Football, and now Dodgeball.\u00a0 As part of the Empire State Corporate Challenge, which just launched in 2016, the Country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/country-mills-eagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}