{"id":464,"date":"2023-02-25T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-02-25T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:13:12","slug":"crusaders-pull-away-from-builders-67-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/2023\/02\/25\/crusaders-pull-away-from-builders-67-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders Pull Away from Builders, 67-44"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Third seed Christendom knocked off 2nd seed Apprentice 67-44 in the New South Athletic Conference semifinals Saturday afternoon to advance into Sunday&#8217;s league title game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders (14-7) never got going offensively, shooting less than 22 percent from the floor on the game and hitting on just one of 17 tries from distance. Christendom (18-4) used a 7-0 push early in the second quarter to seize control of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crusaders hit basket after basket and, despite a push in the third period, pulled away from Apprentice to hand the Builders their only loss on their home floor this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine Thomas, the league MVP, had a game-high 21 points, while Kate Walz put up 19, making five threes along the way. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.prestosports.com\/sports\/wbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/williams_ashawnti_gviz\">Ashawnti Williams<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.prestosports.com\/sports\/wbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/small_kerrigan_yxa4\">Kerrigan Small<\/a>\u00a0each had 11 to lead the Builders in the scoring column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christendom now faces off with Carolina Christian (7-4) at 2:00 pm Sunday for the inaugural New South women&#8217;s basketball championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story courtesy Walker McCrary\/<a href=\"http:\/\/gobuilders.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gobuilders.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211;\u00a0Third seed Christendom knocked off 2nd seed Apprentice 67-44 in the New South Athletic Conference semifinals Saturday afternoon to advance into Sunday&#8217;s league title game. The Builders (14-7) never got going offensively, shooting less than 22 percent from the floor on the game and hitting on just one of 17 tries from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-christendom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}