{"id":1481,"date":"2024-03-02T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:24:49","slug":"lighthouse-outshines-macu-in-nsac-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/03\/02\/lighthouse-outshines-macu-in-nsac-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Outshines MACU in NSAC Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWPORT NEWS, Va.<\/strong> &#8211; Top-seed Lighthouse Christian used a balance scoring attack and strong rebounding to hold off fourth-seeded Mid-Atlantic Christian 84-69 Saturday afternoon and advance to the NSAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighthouse jumped out toa 9-0 lead and led 50-33 at the half behind Eddie Brown&#8217;s 16 points, but MACU held Brown in check much of the second half until the NSAC MVP was forced to leave the game with cramps in both legs with 5:45 to play. The Mustangs trimmed the Makos&#8217; lead to 10 on several occasions, but could get to closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All five starters scored in double figures for LCC, led by Chayse Culpeper&#8217;s 19. Joshua Tyler scored 19 to lead MACU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighthouse advances to face 2nd-seed Apprentice, which defeated 6th-seed Central International 111-80. The championship game will be Sunday at 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211; Top-seed Lighthouse Christian used a balance scoring attack and strong rebounding to hold off fourth-seeded Mid-Atlantic Christian 84-69 Saturday afternoon and advance to the NSAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament finals. Lighthouse jumped out toa 9-0 lead and led 50-33 at the half behind Eddie Brown&#8217;s 16 points, but MACU held Brown in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lighthouse","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}