{"id":145051,"date":"2026-03-22T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145051\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:02:09","slug":"scranton-community-shows-up-to-support-the-lady-royals-during-their-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145051\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton community shows up to support the Lady Royals during their championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community spirit shone as Scranton rallied behind the Lady Royals in their Division III championship match.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Community members showed their team spirit Saturday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students and local supporters came out to the University of Scranton&#8217;s McElhenny Ballroom to watch the Lady Royals basketball team face off against Ohio&#8217;s Denison in the Division III championship match taking place in Salem, Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very nervous, I was in a situation close to 50 years ago when I played here at Scranton&#8230;but I think they&#8217;re playing a little nervous, as, as they should be. It&#8217;s a big stage.&#8221; said Todd Bailey, college admission counselor at Scranton Preparatory School.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Royals did fall short of the championship, but community support will always prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community spirit shone as Scranton rallied behind the Lady Royals in their Division III championship match. SCRANTON, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}