{"id":38728,"date":"2026-08-26T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=38728"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:18:38","slug":"braves-beaten-in-three-by-16-concordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/braves-beaten-in-three-by-16-concordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves beaten in three by #16 Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a straight-sets sweep by the Concordia Cadets Tuesday night as the visitors from the north came down to Decatur and methodically dispatched the Bellmont Braves in a battle of long-time rivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concordia won the first set 25-23 and then squeezed the life out of the Braves from there, sending Bellmont to their third successive defeat, 25-23, 25-20, 25-14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The loss leveled the Bellmont season record to 3-3 with a showdown at South Adams coming Thursday. That intracounty matchup will be broadcast live on WZBD, 92.7 FM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Taylor Sutter led the Braves with seven kills. She also had seven digs and three aces in the match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belle Gumbel finished six of 13 on her kill attempts, while Averie Coats led the team with nine digs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recent ratings from the IHSVCA have Concordia as the #16 team in the state in 3A, while Bellmont was at #18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a straight-sets sweep by the Concordia Cadets Tuesday night as the visitors from the north came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,55],"class_list":["post-38728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-volleyball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC_0085.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38729,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38728\/revisions\/38729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}