{"id":1079,"date":"2018-01-22T18:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2018-01-22T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:47:47","slug":"lets-play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s play ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noelita Lawrence <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>W<strong>eather permitting, the long-awaited 2018 edition of the St. James FA Sandals\/ATL Divisional Senior and Division One League is scheduled for kick-off later today (Monday, January 22) with a double header at the UDC field starting at 1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Senior League will take on a different format and will, for the first time in more than nine years, be played on a straight League format with teams playing each other twice before the leader on points are crowned champions, and will gain promotion to the CONFED.<\/p>\n<p>The two matches scheduled to be played will involve action in both the Senior and Division One Leagues.<\/p>\n<p>In the Division One action, the first of the day and the season, one of last year\u2019s semi-finalists Fire House, campaigning in their second season, oppose the normally unpredictable Cambridge team, while former National League winners Seba and Melbourne do battle in the Senior League showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Seba, Melbourne, Revelation, Marl Road, MoBay City, Lilliputt Rovers, Club Stars, beaten finalists Heights and the promoted pair of Somerton and Irwin are listed to challenge for the Senior League crown.<\/p>\n<p>In Division One are promoted Club Ville and Cambridge join seasoned campaigners Bogue, Norwood, Paradise, Norwood Strikers, Violet Kickers, Copperwood, Sam Sharpe Teachers\u2019 College, along with last season\u2019s semi-finalists Fire House and Lane.<\/p>\n<p>The top four zone winners in the Division One will challenge each other in a two-way semi-finals from where the two winners on aggregate go through to the championship game and will earn promotion to the Senior League.<\/p>\n<p>Zone One will comprise teams Bogue, Lane, Copperwood, Club Ville and Paradise while Sam Sharpe, Fire House, Kickers, Norwood Strikers and Cambridge make up Zone Two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noelita Lawrence &nbsp; Weather permitting, the long-awaited 2018 edition of the St. James FA Sandals\/ATL Divisional Senior and Division One League is scheduled for kick-off later today (Monday, January 22) with a double header at the UDC field starting at 1:30 p.m. This year\u2019s Senior League will take on a different format and will, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[399,394,395,397,400,393,396,398,401],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-confed","tag-division-one","tag-fa","tag-kick-off","tag-national-league","tag-sandals","tag-sandals-atl-division-one-league","tag-udc","tag-zone-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}