{"id":2165,"date":"2025-01-27T21:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:50:52","slug":"macu-defeats-bluefield-73-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/01\/27\/macu-defeats-bluefield-73-71\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Defeats Bluefield 73-71"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211;<\/strong> Mid-Atlantic Christian got 26 points from freshman Elijah Dias and picked up a big non-conference win over Bluefield 73-71 Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game had seven lead changes, seven ties, and neither team led by more than seven points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was a big win for us today we were shorthanded with two of our starters out due to being sick,&#8221; said Mustangs coach Charles Sims. &#8220;I relied on our reserves to get this win today. Elijah Dias had an outstanding game. Bluefield is a NAIA opponent, so we needed to be ready. We had to work for this victory. Every player stepped up and accepted their responsibility which was critical to this game.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyus Williams added 15 points and Keondre Rodgers came off the bench with 12 for the Mustangs (8-8 overall, 4-0 NSAC). MACU was without the service of key players Keith Shakes and Janus Shepherd who were out with illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluefield (5-13) was led by Elijah White with 15 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU is back in action Wednesday night in a major NSAC matchup at Apprentice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy MACU Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian got 26 points from freshman Elijah Dias and picked up a big non-conference win over Bluefield 73-71 Monday night. The game had seven lead changes, seven ties, and neither team led by more than seven points. &#8220;This was a big win for us today we were shorthanded with two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}