{"id":2070,"date":"2024-12-10T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T02:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T02:23:28","slug":"makos-pick-up-two-wins-in-leesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/12\/10\/makos-pick-up-two-wins-in-leesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Makos Pick Up Two Wins in Leesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LEESBURG, Fl.<\/strong> &#8211; Lighthouse Christian made the most of its two-night junket to Leesburg, Florida, picking up NSAC wins over Beacon and Southeast Christian on consecutive nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Makos (6-2 overall, 3-0 NSAC) fell behind early on Monday night to the Blazers, who played inspired ball and took an early six-point advantage, but a 12-0 LCC run put the Makos on top for good. After leading by as many as 20 points, Beacon (2-8, 1-1) chipped away to close the gap to 87-74 at the buzzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After playing Monday&#8217;s game on Southeast&#8217;s home floor, the Makos felt right at home on Tuesday night, jumping out to 7-0 and 14-4 advantages over the struggling Eagles (0-8, 0-5) and never looked back in cruising to a 105-68 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wins catapult Lighthouse to the top of the NSAC <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/standings\/\" target=\"_blank\">standings.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@markusspiske?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Markus Spiske<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/ball-under-basketball-ring-BfphcCvhl6E?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG, Fl. &#8211; Lighthouse Christian made the most of its two-night junket to Leesburg, Florida, picking up NSAC wins over Beacon and Southeast Christian on consecutive nights. The Makos (6-2 overall, 3-0 NSAC) fell behind early on Monday night to the Blazers, who played inspired ball and took an early six-point advantage, but a 12-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beacon","category-lighthouse","category-southeast-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}