{"id":41781,"date":"2014-09-13T21:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=41781"},"modified":"2014-09-13T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T04:34:49","slug":"cougars-fall-into-lumberjacks-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=41781","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Fall Into Lumberjacks&#8217; Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41782\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cougars-fall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41782\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41782\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cougars-fall-400x224.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Thornton brings down Humboldt State running back Nick Ricciardulli during Saturday's 30-10 defeat to HSU in Azusa Pacific's road opener. (Photo by Joe Reinsch)\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Thornton brings down Humboldt State running back Nick Ricciardulli during Saturday&#8217;s 30-10 defeat to HSU in Azusa Pacific&#8217;s road opener. (Photo by Joe Reinsch)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Joe Reinsch<br \/>\n<em>(Courtesy of the APU Athletic Department)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARCATA, Calif. &#8212; Humboldt State held Azusa Pacific All-American running back Terrell Watson to 51 yards while producing two 100-yard rushing performances of its own, defeating the NCAA Division II No. 14-ranked Cougars 30-10 Saturday night in the Redwood Bowl.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nick Ricciardulli ran for a game-high 146 yards, and freshman Ja&#8217;Quan Gardner added 136 yards as the Lumberjacks jumped out to a 23-0 lead and led 30-3 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner&#8217;s 54-yard scoring run opened up the scoring just over a minute into the contest, and he added a six-yard TD with 11:18 left in the first quarter. Ricciardulli&#8217;s score from five yards out made it 23-0 with 10:39 left in the second quarter before Jamie Cacciatore&#8217;s 26-yard field goal with 5:13 before halftime put Azusa Pacific on the board. Chad Jeffries threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Tanner Henry late in the third quarter for the Cougars&#8217; lone TD. With the loss, Azusa Pacific falls to 1-1 and will host Simon Fraser University Sept. 20 in Glendora&#8217;s Citrus Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Reinsch (Courtesy of the APU Athletic Department) ARCATA, Calif. &#8212; Humboldt State held Azusa Pacific All-American running back Terrell Watson to 51 yards while producing two 100-yard rushing performances of its own, defeating the NCAA Division II No. 14-ranked Cougars 30-10 Saturday night in the Redwood Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-41781","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\/41781","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41783,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41781\/revisions\/41783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}