{"id":1190,"date":"2023-11-18T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:51:53","slug":"short-handed-thoroughbreds-come-up-shy-at-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/11\/18\/short-handed-thoroughbreds-come-up-shy-at-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Handed Thoroughbreds Come Up Shy at Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>COLUMBIA, S.C. <\/strong>&#8211; Blue Lights College, with a short roster due to a number of injuries to key players, dropped its second straight game 90-35 Saturday at Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen got out to a fast start leading 15-1 early on and then 46-19 at the halftime break. AU shot 52 % from the floor overall in the game and 42 percent from three. Allen then outscored Blue Lights 44-16 in the second half holding BLC to just 23 percent from the floor and 15 percent from three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thoroughbred starters Kalil Baker, Sam Benton and Miigwaanhs Barrientoz all missed action for the second game due to injuries, depriving BLC of almost 60 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yellow Jackets&#8217; Austin James led all scorers with 14 points. BLC&#8217;s Wol Yak and Patrick Harrigton scored eight apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Lights drops to 4-2 on the season. Allen&#8217;s record remains at 0-2 as AU considered the game as an exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8211; Blue Lights College, with a short roster due to a number of injuries to key players, dropped its second straight game 90-35 Saturday at Allen. Allen got out to a fast start leading 15-1 early on and then 46-19 at the halftime break. AU shot 52 % from the floor overall in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-lights-college","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}