{"id":72434,"date":"2019-07-15T01:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=72434"},"modified":"2019-07-15T01:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:19:19","slug":"spbc-lift-inter-club-badminton-cship-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/spbc-lift-inter-club-badminton-cship-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"SPBC lift inter-club badminton c&#8217;ship trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 14:<\/strong> Senki Park Badminton Club (SPBC) on Saturday defeated hosts Capital Badminton Club (CBC) 3-1 to be crowned champions of the first edition of the Capital Complex Inter-Club Badminton Championship.<br \/>\nThe finals of the tournament, which was played at the MLA cottage badminton stadium here, saw SPBC win the women&#8217;s singles, women&#8217;s doubles and men&#8217;s doubles titles, while the CBC could only register a win in the men&#8217;s singles category. The contest was a best-of-five playoff.<br \/>\nWith the win, SPBC walked home with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and the championship trophy, while the runners-up were awarded Rs 60,000.<br \/>\nFormer home minister Kumar Waii, who gave away the prizes to the participants, said that, being a sportsperson himself, he would keep supporting sportspersons and sports-related events. He also urged youngsters to take up one sport or the other &#8220;to stay fit and healthy in life.&#8221;<br \/>\nEarlier, CBC general secretary Gem Tada said he along with the organizers of the tournament were quite impressed with the turnout of participants for the competition.<br \/>\n&#8220;The main motive of organizing the tournament was to encourage more people, particularly youngsters, to take up sports, especially badminton, and provide them with a stage to showcase their talent. We expect to see more participants in the next edition,&#8221; Tada said.<br \/>\nThanking Waii, Deputy Speaker Tesam Pongte, Nampong MLA Laisam Simai and other government officials who were present to witness the finals, Tada said their presence would &#8220;indirectly motivate the players, especially the budding ones.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe two-day competition was organized by the CBC under the aegis of the Arunachal State Badminton Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jul 14: Senki Park Badminton Club (SPBC) on Saturday defeated hosts Capital Badminton Club (CBC) 3-1 to be crowned champions of the first edition of the Capital Complex Inter-Club Badminton Championship. The finals of the tournament, which was played at the MLA cottage badminton stadium here, saw SPBC win the women&#8217;s singles, women&#8217;s doubles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}