{"id":9825,"date":"2019-02-27T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:20:42","slug":"gpac-championship-a-loss-for-mustangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9825","title":{"rendered":"GPAC Championship a Loss For Mustangs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By <\/strong><strong>Sirkevius<\/strong><strong> Williams&#8211;<\/strong>Morningside men\u2019s basketball rematch against the Jamestown Jimmies for the GPAC championship ended in a second loss for the Mustangs, with a score of 86-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was tough from start to finish, resulting in over\n35 fouls. Jamestown had two players foul out within the last 5 minutes of the\ngame and there was a lot of arm locking, pushing, and shoving throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams shot extremely well, with each team shooting over\n50%, but the Jimmies separated themselves at the 3-point line where they racked\nup 36 points. In comparison, the Mustangs only got 15 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams were matching each other bucket for bucket point\nfor point. There was a total of 17 lead changes, but the Mustang\u2019s downfall came\nat the free-throw line where they missed 10 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, it all came down to the last 11.2 seconds of\nthe game with Morningside College junior Tyler Borchers at the free-throw line.\nBorchers made one of the two free throws forcing Morningside to foul to send\nthe Jimmies to the free-throw line, hoping to get the ball back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jimmies shot their free-throws with 3.6 second left on\nthe clock, making the first one but missing the second one. Morningside\ncapitalized off that miss by getting the rebound and going on the fast break,\nputting the ball in Morningside College senior Brody Egger\u2019s hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brody Egger tried to put up a layup to tie the game, but he\nmissed and was also fouled. With Egger at the free-throw line the building was\ndead silent, you couldn\u2019t hear anything but Egger\u2019s heartbeat. Egger then put\nup his first shot\u2026but missed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Jim Sykes called a timeout to create a plan to attempt\nto get the ball back, but the Mustangs failed to do so on the next shot. They\nwent on to foul the Jimmies to get them at the free-throw line; the Jimmies then\nmissed on the following shot but the Mustangs failed to get the rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nJimmies were crowned 2018\/2019 GPAC champions at half court. The Mustangs and\nthe Jimmies will now focus their attention on playing for the National NAIA\ntournament. The two could teams could possibly face off again within the\ntournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sirkevius Williams&#8211;Morningside men\u2019s basketball rematch against the Jamestown Jimmies for the GPAC championship ended in a second loss for the Mustangs, with a score of 86-84. The game was tough from start to finish, resulting in over 35 fouls. Jamestown had two players foul out within the last 5 minutes of the game and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[46941,46951,46933],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-morningside-college-2","tag-morningsidebasketball","tag-morningsidemustangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","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\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9826,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}