{"id":468,"date":"2023-02-27T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/?p=468"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:53:26","slug":"centurions-hold-off-crusader-rally-for-nsac-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/2023\/02\/27\/centurions-hold-off-crusader-rally-for-nsac-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Centurions Hold Off Crusader Rally for NSAC Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWPORT NEWS, Va.<\/strong> &#8211; Carolina Christian build an 12-point advantage over Christendom midway through the 4th quarter, then battled to hold off the Crusaders&#8217; rally to claim the inaugural NSAC women&#8217;s basketball championship 70-67 on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centurions frustrated Christendom&#8217;s offensive flow throughout the game with full-court pressure defense, scoring 24 points off 27 Crusader turnovers. Christendom clawed back to within 1, 68-67, on a Catherine Thomas jumper and subsequent free throw, with 46.8 seconds to play, but could get no closer. CCC&#8217;s Imari Hightower sank two free throws with 40.1 seconds left in regulation to stretch the lead back to 3. Two three-point attempts by the Crusaders in the final minute fell short to preserve the victory for the Centurions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hightower led all scorers with 33 points. Thomas led CC with 29 points and 23 boards, while Miranda Keller chalked 19 and 12, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy Ike Washington\/Apprentice Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211; Carolina Christian build an 12-point advantage over Christendom midway through the 4th quarter, then battled to hold off the Crusaders&#8217; rally to claim the inaugural NSAC women&#8217;s basketball championship 70-67 on Sunday afternoon. The Centurions frustrated Christendom&#8217;s offensive flow throughout the game with full-court pressure defense, scoring 24 points off 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carolina-christian","category-christendom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/wbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}