{"id":25985,"date":"2006-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/the-juniors-also-win-the-national-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:28","slug":"the-juniors-also-win-the-national-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/the-juniors-also-win-the-national-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Juniors also win the National Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                               After last year`s disappointment when they lost the Cup Final to Hapoel Tel Aviv, tonight Maccabi Juniors captured the Youth Cup for the 16th time with a 93-84 win over Hapoel Galil Elyon . In the game played at Raanana, Maccabi held a 28-25 lead at the end of the first quarter. At half time Galil Elyon led 44-43. But Eli Canetti`s players took control in the third (67-57). The Northeners cut the score to 80-77 but a strong finish by the Yellows assured victory. Three players dominated the game: Sean Daniel with 27 pts, 9 rbds, &#038; 8 assists, Gal Mekel with 26 pts &#038; 6 asts and Anton Shptbin with 20 pts &#038; 6 rbds. Other Maccabi scorers: Amit Birkats 6, Shay Yakoubovitz 5, Andrei Riznikov 4, Tomer Shindler 3, Or Steiner 2 pts. The Cup and  individual medals were presented to Maccbi`s captain Gal Mekel accompanied by Sean Daniel by Yermi Olmert, President of the Israel Bastketball Federation and his deputy Shimon Mizrahi.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 16th time. Beat Hapoel Galil Elyon 93-84. A great night for Sean Daniel (27 pts), Gal Mekel (26) &#038; Anton Shotbin (20)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-25985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493764,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions\/493764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}