{"id":9553,"date":"2018-11-24T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2018-11-24T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:49:31","slug":"mside-strolls-into-semifinal-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9553","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;Side strolls into semifinal (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morningside made it look easy in a 51-14 win over Saint Xavier University in an NAIA quarterfinal football playoff contest.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, QB Trent Solsma and receiver Connor Niles wrote themselves into the NAIA record book. Solsma now has the touchdown passing mark with 157. Niles set the record for reception yards in a season with 2,314.<\/p>\n<p>On the day, the NAIA&#8217;s four top\u2013rated teams all won to move into the semifinals. Morningside will host St. Francis Dec. 1. The Cougars beat Baker 33-23. Benedictine (Kan.) will be at Kansas Wesleyan in the other contest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msidemustangs.com\/article\/football\/ticket-punched-morningside-back-to-playoffs-final-four\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9553 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/AlexBlockSm.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/AlexBlockSm-200x198.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/AlexBlockSm-200x198.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/AlexBlockSm-400x396.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/AlexBlockSm.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9554'>\n\t\t\t\tAlex Harrison\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/ElsSm.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/ElsSm-200x205.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/ElsSm-200x205.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/ElsSm-391x400.jpg 391w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/ElsSm-768x785.jpg 768w, 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https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/GustavSm-1-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/GustavSm-1-800x611.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/GustavSm-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9556'>\n\t\t\t\tNik Gustav\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1-200x174.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1-200x174.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1-400x347.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1-800x694.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesSm-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9557'>\n\t\t\t\tNiles pulls in a pass\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesTDSm.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/NilesTDSm-200x209.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9558\" 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm-200x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm-200x210.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm-382x400.jpg 382w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm-768x805.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm-763x800.jpg 763w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2018\/11\/No27Sm.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9560'>\n\t\t\t\tAnthony Sims\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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Individually, QB Trent Solsma and receiver Connor Niles wrote themselves into the NAIA record book. Solsma now has the touchdown passing mark with 157. Niles set the record for reception yards in a season with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[46908,46880,318,46725,46807,46732,46800],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gpacscores","tag-msidelife","tag-football","tag-gpac","tag-morningside-mustangs","tag-mustangs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}