{"id":46695,"date":"2015-02-16T21:04:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46695"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:45:33","slug":"azusa-pacific-19-chaminade-10-1st-half-1107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46695","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Late Run Buries Chaminade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Sandoval and the APU Cougars remain atop the PacWest Conference!<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Glendora) – Azusa Pacific jumped out to a 17 point halftime lead and then withstood a\u00a0furious Chaminade rally\u00a0early in the second\u00a0half and eventually pulled away to a 86-65 Monday night at Felix Event Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bruce English\u00a0led the Cougars with 17 points and Robert Sandoval added 15. The Cougars hit ten three pointers in the first half and 15 for the game.\u00a0\u00a0English and Sandoval each\u00a0nailed three from beyond the arc.\u00a0Kevin Stafford also hit three treys and finished with nine points.<\/p>\n

Things got interesting when Chaminade\u00a0outscored\u00a0APU\u00a018-1 to open the second half cutting the lead to four with 13:50 left. But the Cougars responded with a 14-0 run to go back\u00a0up by 18 and secure the victory.<\/p>\n

Azusa Pacific was in control throughout the first half.\u00a0The Cougar led 19-10 early\u00a0and increased it to 49-32 by the break. They were red hot\u00a0from the land of plenty shooting\u00a010 of 19 from downtown\u00a0in the first half. While APU\u00a0was lighting it up Chaminade struggled to find its way. The Silverswords were\u00a0just 2 of 12 from three point land (16.7 %) and 11 of 33 from the field overall which accounted for the big deficit.<\/p>\n

But things suddenly changed in the second half.\u00a0Chaminade\u00a0came out of the gate smoking\u00a0scoring the first nine points to cut it to eight.\u00a0The lead was\u00a0then sliced to 54-50 and the Cougars\u00a0appeared to be on the ropes. But just as quickly the tide turned again.\u00a0Lydell Cardwell hit a couple of threes\u00a0and English soared in for a lay-up\u00a0and just like that it was APU\u00a0on a 14-0 run, the lead was back up to 18 at 68-50 and\u00a0all was well in Cougarville.<\/p>\n

The Silverswords could never recover\u00a0from the blitz and the Cougars went on to the\u00a021 point win. APU ended up shooting 45 percent from three point range for the game and 45 percent from the field.\u00a0Despite the run Chaminade was still only 21 percent from the three point line (4-19) and 37 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Troy Leaf\u00a0with 11 and Petar Kutlesic\u00a0(10) were also in double figures for the Cougars.\u00a0Sandoval, from the guard position, led Azusa Pacific with seven rebounds.\u00a0Frankie Eteuati took scoring honors for Chaminade\u00a0with 19 and Kiran Shastri added 13.\u00a0Eteuati pulled down a game high 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n

With the victory\u00a0the Cougars remained on top of the PacWest Coference with a\u00a0record of 15-3. They’re 22-4 overall. Chaminade is\u00a06-11, 9-14.<\/p>\n

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AP 49\u00a0 37\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Glendora) – Azusa Pacific jumped out to a 17 point halftime lead and then withstood a\u00a0furious Chaminade rally\u00a0early in the second\u00a0half and eventually pulled away to a 86-65 Monday night at Felix Event Center.\u00a0<\/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":[8824,4944,10946,8846,10949,10829,10950,10827,10886,10888,10826,8830],"class_list":["post-46695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-bruce-english","tag-chaminade-basketball","tag-felix-event-center","tag-frankie-eteuati","tag-kevin-stafford","tag-kirin-shastri","tag-lydell-cardwell","tag-pacwest","tag-petar-kutlesic","tag-robert-sandoval","tag-troy-leaf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46695","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=46695"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46719,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46695\/revisions\/46719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}