{"id":884965,"date":"2026-06-22T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:52:16","slug":"chicago-hounds-rugby-team-clinches-championship-finishes-season-undefeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884965\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Hounds rugby team clinches championship, finishes season undefeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Hounds won their first-ever championship over the weekend, in just their fourth year of existence.<\/p>\n<p>It was a soggy day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-hounds-major-league-rugby-championship-preview-california-legion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Hounds<\/a> took on the California Legion at the Major League Rugby Championship at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview.<\/p>\n<p>As documented in American Rugby News, Chris Hilsenbeck opened scoring for the Hounds in a kicking exchange, and scored again to make it 10-0 after just eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Hounds were in full control throughout the game with a dominant 35-17 win, not only clinching the championship, but completing the first undefeated season in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Hounds won their first-ever championship over the weekend, in just their fourth year of existence. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":884966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,3776],"class_list":["post-884965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-rugby"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116794094281712682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}