{"id":37530,"date":"2014-02-11T23:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37530"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:15:33","slug":"crusaders-clinch-47-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37530","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders Clinch, 47-45"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37536\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37536\" class=\" wp-image-37536 \" alt=\"Tey Williams scores two but it wasn't enough for the Minutemen.\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/050-522x768.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tey Williams gets two here but it wasn&#8217;t enough for the Minutemen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Pasadena) &#8211; Village Christian\u00a0missed six\u00a0free throws\u00a0in the fourth\u00a0quarter and made only three field\u00a0goals in the final frame but still managed to escape with a 47-45 win\u00a0over Maranatha Tuesday night\u00a0on the Minutemen home floor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With the victory Village Christian clinched the Olympic League title\u00a0improving to 7-0 with only one game remaining. Second place Maranatha dropped to 5-2.<\/p>\n<p>***Maranatha&#8217;s Tey Willams scored five big points in the fourth quarter but was rejected twice in the final minute by the Village Christian defense.<\/p>\n<p>***Neither team shot well out of the gate. Maranatha led 10-8 after one and the score was tied at 20 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>***Maranatha had the ball with nine seconds left but Village Christian forced a turnover as Williams stepped out of bounds.<\/p>\n<p>***Bear Henderson scored 17 points for Village Christian to lead all scorers.<\/p>\n<p>***Bennie Boatwright added 14 for VC and had some huge blocks in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>***Maranatha had only one player in double figures \u2013 Nick Springer with 13.<\/p>\n<p>***Former Muir HC Gamal Smalley is Tim Tucker&#8217;s assistant at Maranatha and his son Zach is a starting guard.<\/p>\n<p>***Village hit only one three pointer while Maranatha knocked down four.<\/p>\n<p>***Village led 34-32 after three and played the Minutemen even in the fourth to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>***The Crusaders improved to 20-4 overall while Maranatha dropped to 13-12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pasadena) &#8211; Village Christian\u00a0missed six\u00a0free throws\u00a0in the fourth\u00a0quarter and made only three field\u00a0goals in the final frame but still managed to escape with a 47-45 win\u00a0over Maranatha Tuesday night\u00a0on the Minutemen home floor.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530","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=37530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37540,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530\/revisions\/37540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}