{"id":46652,"date":"2015-02-12T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46652"},"modified":"2015-02-13T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T07:30:08","slug":"byu-hawaii-28-azusa-pacific-25-1st-half-705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46652","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Put Some English On It, 88-74"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46658\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_7876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46658\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46658\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_7876-531x768.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce English glides in for two of his 17 in the win over BYU Hawaii.\" width=\"520\" height=\"752\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce English glides in for two of his 17 in the win over BYU Hawaii.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Bruce English\u00a0scored 17 points off the bench in 20 minutes to spark\u00a0Azusa Pacific to an 88-74 win over BYU -Hawaii Thursday night\u00a0at Felix Event Center.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->English was red hot from the perimeter\u00a0burying 5 of 7 shots from three point land\u00a0and hitting 6 of 9 from the floor overall. English gave the Cougars a shot in the arm in the first half after they fell down\u00a0early to BYU-Hawaii.\u00a0APU caught the Seasiders\u00a0late in the first half, took a ten point lead at the break and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>BYU-Hawaii got off to a 5-0 start and still led 13 minutes into the contest. The Cougars tied it at 30 and then eventually took control.\u00a0After leading 50-40 at the break, APU scored the first seven points of the second half to open a 17 point bulge.\u00a0The Cougs built a 20 point margin at 65-45\u00a0before BYU-Hawaii slightly rallied.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Leaf, as he as done all year,\u00a0led Azusa Pacific with 25 points. Leaf\u00a0was 9 of 16 from the floor and 5 of 7 from the line while playing 35 minutes. Robert Sandoval with 12, and Kevin Stafford with 10\u00a0were also in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing 30-28 in the first half,\u00a0APU used a 22-10 run to close out the half\u00a0and the 7-0\u00a0run to open the second half put BYU -Hawaii in\u00a0a hole\u00a0from which it could never recover.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars were 10-24 from three point land and shot 49 percent from the field for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Friel led BYU-Hawaii in scoring with 18 points and Pablo Coro had 11. The Seasiders did outrebound the Cougars 36-33.<\/p>\n<p>The win was a nice bounce back win for APU\u00a0after falling to Cal Baptist last Saturday night.\u00a0The Cougars improved to 13-3 in the PacWest\u00a0and 20-4 overall. BYU-Hawaii is now 12-3, 18-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Bruce English\u00a0scored 17 points off the bench in 20 minutes to spark\u00a0Azusa Pacific to an 88-74 win over BYU -Hawaii Thursday night\u00a0at 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":[8824,10939,10886],"class_list":["post-46652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-byu-hawaii-basketball","tag-pacwest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46652","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=46652"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46665,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46652\/revisions\/46665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}