{"id":687,"date":"2023-02-04T16:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=687"},"modified":"2023-02-04T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:23:42","slug":"macu-blunts-blc-comeback-87-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/02\/04\/macu-blunts-blc-comeback-87-81\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Blunts BLC Comeback, 87-81"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.<\/strong> &#8211; It appeared Mid-Atlantic Christian had its game against Blue Lights College well in hand, leading by 16 late in the contest, but had to hang on to survive a Thoroughbreds push and win at home, 87-81 on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With MACU holding an 81-65 lead with under five minutes in regulation, BLC launched a comeback attempt, scoring 16 of the game&#8217;s final 22 points, only to fall short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We played well,&#8221; said Mustangs head coach Charles Sims. &#8220;The plan today was just to have fun playing. As a team we needed this. With all the ups and downs of the season and the in-house situations that come with every team, this was an important victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had self-inflicted wounds against a good team,&#8221; Thoroughbreds coach Nolan Adams explained. &#8220;We can&#8217;t survive that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talik Totten led four Mustangs in double figures with 23 points. Two Thoroughbreds recorded double-doubles: Sam Benton, Jr. scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while Keyshawn Bryant had 20 and 14, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win keeps MACU a step behind Apprentice in the NSAC standings at 5-1 and 10-8 overall. Blue Lights remains tied for third with Virginia Peninsula at 1-3 and 7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; It appeared Mid-Atlantic Christian had its game against Blue Lights College well in hand, leading by 16 late in the contest, but had to hang on to survive a Thoroughbreds push and win at home, 87-81 on Saturday afternoon. With MACU holding an 81-65 lead with under five minutes in regulation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-lights-college","category-macu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}