{"id":2237,"date":"2025-02-15T20:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T01:47:23","slug":"macu-drops-heartbreaker-at-smc-85-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/02\/15\/macu-drops-heartbreaker-at-smc-85-84\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Drops Heartbreaker at SMC 85-84"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SPARTANBURG, S.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Spartanburg Methodist College senior guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosmcpioneers.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2024-25\/bios\/bayonne_bryan_7g8n\">Bryan Bayonne<\/a>\u00a0was fouled with :07 left and made one of two free throws to lead the Pioneers to an 85-84 win over Mid-Atlantic Christian on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pioneers (9-14) were led by Bayonee, who went on to score a game-high 28 (7 of 15 from the field) with four 3-pointers in the win. He also had seven steals and four assists to contribute to the winning efforts.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosmcpioneers.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2024-25\/bios\/rojas_richard_3on7\">Richard Rojas<\/a>&nbsp;had a double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and the third Pioneer in double figures was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosmcpioneers.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2024-25\/bios\/Lacey_Tavarez\">Tavarez Lacey<\/a>, who had 10 points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs (12-11) were paced by a 22-point game from Janus Shepherd. He was joined in double figures by Stewart Clough, who had 15, and Tyus Williams, who had 13 points and 10 rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU forced a pair of SMC turnovers and managed to tie the game at 84 when Shepherd made a layup with :34 to go. Then, the Pioneers and head coach Blake Jackson, who was celebrating his birthday, called a timeout.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pioneers put the ball in the hands of the senior from Baton Rouge, who drove to the basket with :07 left and was fouled by the Mustangs. After missing the first free throw, Bayonne made the second. The visitors had a last-second attempt, but a jumper by Shepherd came up short. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story courtesy gosmcpioneers.com; Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@neonbrand?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Kenny Eliason<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/basketball-player-about-to-free-throw-6mRaiW6DDCM?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPARTANBURG, S.C. \u2013 Spartanburg Methodist College senior guard\u00a0Bryan Bayonne\u00a0was fouled with :07 left and made one of two free throws to lead the Pioneers to an 85-84 win over Mid-Atlantic Christian on Saturday.\u00a0 The Pioneers (9-14) were led by Bayonee, who went on to score a game-high 28 (7 of 15 from the field) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","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\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}