{"id":126222,"date":"2026-09-05T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126222\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:36:10","slug":"hs-football-gotw-week-3-a-thriller-of-a-craven-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126222\/","title":{"rendered":"HS Football GOTW Week 3: A thriller of a Craven County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The New Bern Bears and the West Craven Eagles took the stage in New Bern on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern led the series 31-11 going into the evening with West Craven technically only having four wins on the field since 2004. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bears were coming off of a victory against Havelock in last weeks Game of the Week, whilst the Eagles were coming off a win against Wilson Prep. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bears got to the house first, but the Eagles quickly rivaled it with a kickoff return from Xavier Cuthbertson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">7-7 halfway through the first quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Things quickly escalated, and a halftime score of 21-14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a slow second half, the Bears won 34-14. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. NEW BERN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,27219,29004,5298,5297,2015,9052,59551,107,32516,61547],"class_list":["post-126222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-championship","tag-clash","tag-county","tag-craven","tag-eagles","tag-first","tag-game-of-the-week","tag-new-bern","tag-quarter","tag-west-craven"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117216817060803768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}