{"id":28201,"date":"2025-09-09T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/?p=28201"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:37:56","slug":"village-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/?p=28201","title":{"rendered":"Village Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Annual Bocce Village Challenge Tournament Brings Villagers Together<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The courts were buzzing with excitement this weekend as players from each of the villages gathered for the much-anticipated annual Village Challenge Bocce Tournament. What began years ago as a friendly rivalry has now grown into one of the Villages favorite traditions\u2014a celebration of friendships,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>competition, and, of course, plenty of bocce.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from each village played with a healthy dose of good-natured banter. Spectators from each of the Villages came down to cheer on friends and neighbors, while enjoying coffee, doughnuts and bagels, and plenty of laughter.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament featured round-robin play on Saturday, with teams vying for a spot in the Sunday finals. Some matches were nail-biters, decided by a single roll just inches from the pallino.<\/p>\n<p>The championship game between Cribari and Olivas was a highlight. In the end, victory went to Olivas, who won the trophy for the first time. But true to the tournament\u2019s spirit, every team walked away a winner, with memories made and stories to share until next year\u2019s rematch.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28202\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28202\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-First-Place-Team.png?resize=697%2C523&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-First-Place-Team.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-First-Place-Team.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivas Team: Back row from left: Jon Stuart, Jana King. Roger King, Tony Mora, Joe Civello and Ron Speer Front row from left: Maria Burn and Betty Mora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28204\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-Second-Place-Team.png?resize=601%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-Second-Place-Team.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Village-Challenge-Second-Place-Team.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cribari Team:Back row from left: Karen Carlson, Vivian Hobbs and Linda Liebel. Front row from left: Janelle Marines, Ro Miller, Jeanne Anne Whitacre and Barbra Orlando<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Bocce Village Challenge Tournament Brings Villagers Together The courts were buzzing with excitement this weekend as players from each of the villages gathered for the much-anticipated annual Village Challenge Bocce Tournament. What began years ago as a friendly rivalry has now grown into one of the Villages favorite traditions\u2014a celebration of friendships,\u00a0 competition, and, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/?p=28201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Village Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28207,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201\/revisions\/28207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagesbocce.vgcc.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}