{"id":673,"date":"2023-01-28T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=673"},"modified":"2023-01-28T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:35:11","slug":"macu-toughs-out-win-at-christendom-80-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/01\/28\/macu-toughs-out-win-at-christendom-80-69\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Toughs Out Win at Christendom, 80-69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FRONT ROYAL, Va.<\/strong> &#8211; Freshman forward Jalen Jones chalked 17 points to lead Mid-Atlantic Christian to 80-69 NSAC win at Christendom Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was the kind of game we expected with Christendom,&#8221; said MACU coach Charles Sims. &#8220;Our games have always been competitive and tight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs led by three at halftime, 37-34, and were able to turn up the defensive intensity in the second half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christendom never backs down, and they are disciplined, so we knew what to expect,&#8221; said Sims. &#8220;It was good to get this win on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crusaders were coming off another tight New South game just the night before, a 70-63 home loss to Apprentice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU improved to 4-1 in league play and 9-7 overall, while the Crusaders moved to 0-3 and 5-8, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRONT ROYAL, Va. &#8211; Freshman forward Jalen Jones chalked 17 points to lead Mid-Atlantic Christian to 80-69 NSAC win at Christendom Saturday afternoon. &#8220;It was the kind of game we expected with Christendom,&#8221; said MACU coach Charles Sims. &#8220;Our games have always been competitive and tight.&#8221; The Mustangs led by three at halftime, 37-34, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc","category-macu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}