{"id":2089,"date":"2024-12-20T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T02:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2024-12-24T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T00:48:19","slug":"jmcc-knocks-off-apprentice-macu-puts-away-jmu-at-christmas-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/12\/20\/jmcc-knocks-off-apprentice-macu-puts-away-jmu-at-christmas-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"JMCC Knocks Off Apprentice, MACU Puts Away JMU at Christmas Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TOCCOA FALLS, Ga. &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Trailing by as many as 27, USCAA third-ranked Apprentice mounted a massive comeback to make it a game before falling just short in a 108-101 loss to John Melvin Christian College (FL) Friday afternoon at the NSAC North-South Christmas Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JMCC shot over 70 percent in the first half to take a lead as big as 27 points before sitting at a 60-35 lead at intermission. From there, the Builders started chipping away, winning each media timeout period all the way down to the under-4 when Apprentice trailed by just three at 93-90. JMCC did just enough to hold off the Builders to get the win down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders&#8217; Donovan Means scored a career high 32 points to lead all scorers. Josh Wyatt led the Mohawks with 26. JMCC went 44-for-48 at the free throw line in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the nightcap, Mid-Atlantic Christian fell behind by double-digits in the first half, only to take the lead after intermission and pull away late to defeat John Melvin University (LA) 88-74. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keith Shakes scored 27 points to lead the Mustangs to their first NSAC win. Richard Cassler of JMU led all scorers with 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSAC Christmas Classic is a three-day event pitting Apprentice and MACU from the North Division facing JMCC (FL), JMU (LA), and Atlantis from the South Division in a round-robin format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Play continues Saturday at 2:00 pm Eastern time when Apprentice faces #7 Atlantis followed by John Melvin Christian College and MACU at 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thanks to Walker McCrary\/<a href=\"http:\/\/gobuilders.com\">gobuilders.com<\/a> for his help with this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOCCOA FALLS, Ga. &#8211;&nbsp;Trailing by as many as 27, USCAA third-ranked Apprentice mounted a massive comeback to make it a game before falling just short in a 108-101 loss to John Melvin Christian College (FL) Friday afternoon at the NSAC North-South Christmas Classic. JMCC shot over 70 percent in the first half to take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,27,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-jmcc-fl","category-jmu-la","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}