{"id":500,"date":"2022-12-03T20:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=500"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T02:00:48","slug":"apprentice-holds-off-cheyney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2022\/12\/03\/apprentice-holds-off-cheyney\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Holds Off Cheyney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWPORT NEWS &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/smith_karree_k9bj\">Karree Smith<\/a> led the 7th-ranked Apprentice School men&#8217;s basketball team with 19 points Saturday as the Builders held off Cheyney with a stellar defensive effort, 65-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the two teams traded blows through the first seven minutes to get to an 11-11 score, the Builders went on a 10-3 stretch to take the lead for good. Apprentice (3-3 overall, 2-0 NSAC) pushed the lead out to as many as 17 in the first half before the Wolves fought back to trim the lead to single digits midway through the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheyney (2-6) got as close as eight points down the stretch, but the Builders answered each time to keep the game at a comfortable margin to get back in the win column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>INSIDE THE BOX SCORE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apprentice is now 3-0 at home.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/mielewski_caleb_5fxo\">Caleb Mielewski<\/a> finished with 11 points as the only other Builder in double figures.<\/li><li>The Apprentice defense forced 18 turnovers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEXT UP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders will hit the road down to Virginia Wesleyan Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/gobuilders.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gobuilders.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS &#8211; Karree Smith led the 7th-ranked Apprentice School men&#8217;s basketball team with 19 points Saturday as the Builders held off Cheyney with a stellar defensive effort, 65-53. After the two teams traded blows through the first seven minutes to get to an 11-11 score, the Builders went on a 10-3 stretch to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}