{"id":30962,"date":"2024-02-24T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=30962"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:58:13","slug":"couch-and-thayer-basketball-teams-are-off-to-the-championship-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/sports\/couch-and-thayer-basketball-teams-are-off-to-the-championship-games-20240224","title":{"rendered":"Couch And Thayer Basketball Teams Are Off To The Championship Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Couch, Mo. \u2013<\/strong>The Couch High School and Thayer High School boys basketball teams have advanced to their respective district championship games.<\/p>\n<h2>Couch<\/h2>\n<p>The Couch Indians&#8217; send-off started at 11:00 am. A police car and firetruck escorted them down Highway 142. Over a dozen cars joined the bus driving over to Bradleyville for the game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30970\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30970 size-image-640px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-718126-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"People cheering on the Couch Indians as they head to the district championship game.\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-718126-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-718126-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-718126-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-718126-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cheering on the Couch Indians as they head to the district championship game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Thayer<\/h2>\n<p>Having been in numerous district championship games, Thayer didn&#8217;t have a send-off. The basketball team left at 12:45 pm for their championship game in Houston.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30975\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30975 size-image-640px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-7002391-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"The Thayer Bobcats basketball team heading to the district championship game.\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-7002391-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-7002391-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-7002391-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/untitled-shoot-7002391-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thayer Bobcats basketball team heading to the district championship game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both games will start at 3:00 pm, with the Couch Indians facing the Chadwick Cardinals and the Thayer Bobcats facing the Liberty Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Couch High School and Thayer High School boys basketball teams have advanced to their respective district championship games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[271,213,201,264,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30976,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30962\/revisions\/30976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}