{"id":2206,"date":"2025-02-05T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:50:17","slug":"mustangs-get-first-ever-win-over-ecsu-75-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/02\/05\/mustangs-get-first-ever-win-over-ecsu-75-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Get First-Ever Win over ECSU 75-71"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C<\/strong>. &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian made history Tuesday night as it knocked off cross-town rival Elizabeth City State 75-71 for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was tightly contested, featuring five ties and nine lead changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs (10-8 overall, 4-0) were led by junior <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gomacumustangs.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/janus-shepherd\/762\">Janus Shepherd<\/a><\/dfn> with 20 points. Following behind were <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gomacumustangs.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/stewart-clough\/764\">Stewart Clough<\/a><\/dfn>, who had 18 points, and <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gomacumustangs.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/keith-shakes-jr-\/759\">Keith Shakes Jr.<\/a><\/dfn> with 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ECSU (10-11) was led by Sterling Vaughn with 18 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the tenth overall meeting between the two EC schools with the NCAA division 2 Vikings having the upper hand in each of the previous contests. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game marked the fourth straight win for MACU since losing to Regent on January 23. The Mustangs host the Royals for a rematch tonight, the third game in three days for Mid-Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy Isabel LaPoe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian made history Tuesday night as it knocked off cross-town rival Elizabeth City State 75-71 for the first time in program history. The game was tightly contested, featuring five ties and nine lead changes. The Mustangs (10-8 overall, 4-0) were led by junior Janus Shepherd with 20 points. Following behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","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\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}