{"id":37197,"date":"2014-01-20T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2014-01-20T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T06:53:56","slug":"dixie-state-9-azusa-pacific-6-1536-1st-qtr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37197","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Can&#8217;t Finish off Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37223\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37223\" class=\" wp-image-37223 \" alt=\"Tyler Monroe glides in for two of his 17.\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/023-528x768.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Monroe glides in for two of his 17.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Glendora) \u2013 Azusa Pacific led by as many as 11 points in the first half and by seven at the break but couldn&#8217;t finish it off in an 82-75 loss to Dixie State Monday night at the Felix Event Center.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37225\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37225\" class=\" wp-image-37225 \" alt=\"Troy Leaf splits the double team.\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0141-533x768.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Leaf splits the double team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Cougars had four players in double figures and shot 50 percent from the field in the first half but it wasn&#8217;t enough to hold off the Red Storm. APU cooled off in the second half as they were outscored by Dixie State by 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***Tyler Monroe led the Cougars with 17 points while Robert Sandoval netted 15. Troy Leaf and Sharif Watson each had 12.<\/p>\n<p>***Azusa Pacific shot just 33 percent from the field in the second half after shooting 50 in the first and were outscored 45-31.<\/p>\n<p>***Zach Robbins, who hails from Upland, led the Red Storm and all scorers with 27 points going 7 for 13 from the field and 13 of 14 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>***Dixie State out rebounded APU 42-37.<\/p>\n<p>***Azusa Pacific went on a 10-1 run in the first half to lead 31-20 with 6:31 left in the first half- the Cougars biggest lead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>***The seven point final margin was Dixie State&#8217;s biggest lead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>***Louis Garrett and DeQuan Thompson joined Robbins in double figures with 15 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>***Dixie State led early in the first quarter before falling behind. The Red Storm regained the advantage in the fourth 63-62 with 8:53 left.<\/p>\n<p>***The Red Storm had a big advantage in free throws making 28 compared to 16 for APU.<\/p>\n<p>***Azusa Pacific dropped to 9-6 overall and 5-4 in the Pacific West Conference while Dixie State improved to 14-2 and 8-2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 37\u00a0 45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 82<\/p>\n<p>APU\u00a0 44\u00a0 31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 75<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Glendora) \u2013 Azusa Pacific led by as many as 11 points in the first half and by seven at the break but couldn&#8217;t finish it off in an 82-75 loss to Dixie State Monday night at the Felix Event Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37199,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions\/37199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}