{"id":2269,"date":"2025-02-21T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:32:07","slug":"lighthouse-overpowers-jmcc-to-clinch-nsac-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/02\/21\/lighthouse-overpowers-jmcc-to-clinch-nsac-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Overpowers JMCC to Clinch NSAC Top Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MILTON, Fl. &#8211;<\/strong> Lighthouse Christian got a combined 71 points from Eddie Brown and Wol Yak to down John Melvin (FL) 114-105 Thursday night and clinch the top seed in the NSAC men&#8217;s basketball tournament for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/jmcc-at-lcc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2274\" style=\"width:340px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/jmcc-at-lcc-2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/jmcc-at-lcc-2-128x85.jpg 128w, https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/jmcc-at-lcc-2-32x21.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yak led all scorers with 36 points, 25 of them coming in the second half. Brown followed with 35 points. Darion Ramos led the Mohawks with 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the win, Lighthouse (23-2 overall, 12-0 NSAC) locks up the top spot for next week&#8217;s tournament, which it will host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss drops JMCC (22-4, 10-2) to third, but several games between now and Monday will impact the standings between seeds 2-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JMCC and Lighthouse will meet again on Monday, February 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy Lighthouse Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILTON, Fl. &#8211; Lighthouse Christian got a combined 71 points from Eddie Brown and Wol Yak to down John Melvin (FL) 114-105 Thursday night and clinch the top seed in the NSAC men&#8217;s basketball tournament for the second consecutive year. Yak led all scorers with 36 points, 25 of them coming in the second half. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jmcc-fl","category-lighthouse","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","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=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}