{"id":382,"date":"2025-09-07T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/?p=382"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:07:03","slug":"apprentice-drops-season-opener-at-southern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/2025\/09\/07\/apprentice-drops-season-opener-at-southern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Drops Season Opener at Southern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BUENA VISTA, Va<\/strong>. &#8211; The Apprentice School football team fell in the 2025 season opener Saturday night at the hands of Southern Virginia, 27-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders lose their second season opener in the last three years, and with the loss, the all-time series with the Knights is now tied at 8-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern Virginia took the opening kickoff and drove right down the field to open their season with an emphatic touchdown as Henry Audette caught a 7-yard pass from Devin Watson to take the early 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apprentice answered early in the second quarter, capping off an 11-play, 67-yard drive with a Tyreon Taylor rushing score from three yards out to cut the lead to 7-6 after the PAT was blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defense forced a three-and-out, but the Knight defense responded with a 37-yard pick-six at the 9:03 mark of the second quarter, pushing the SVU lead back out to 13-6 after the Builders disrupted the PAT attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The score remained there until the Knights got the ball with their first drive of the second half, going seven plays to score on a 27-yard pass from Watson to Cintez Gibson. The Knights scored again late in the third on a Crew Sage 9-yard rumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders had their opportunities to answer, but three second half fumbles put the Apprentice offense at a stand still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chase Gayness led the defense with nine tackles, while Fredarico Staton had an interception. Offensively, T.K. Petty led the way with five catches for 75 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apprentice will look to rebound next week when they open up the home slate with a 1 p.m matchup against N.C. Wesleyan. Tickets and tailgating spots are on sale now at <a href=\"http:\/\/GoBuilders.com\/ticketing\">GoBuilders.com\/ticketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy Walker McCrary\/Apprentice Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENA VISTA, Va. &#8211; The Apprentice School football team fell in the 2025 season opener Saturday night at the hands of Southern Virginia, 27-6. The Builders lose their second season opener in the last three years, and with the loss, the all-time series with the Knights is now tied at 8-8. Southern Virginia took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}