{"id":46700,"date":"2015-02-16T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46700"},"modified":"2015-02-16T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T04:31:14","slug":"cougars-roll-in-win-over-chaminade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46700","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Roll in Win over Chaminade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46320\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46320\" class=\"wp-image-46320 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7514-550x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cyndie Jones dished and scored in win over Chaminade.\" width=\"520\" height=\"726\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyndie Jones dished and scored in win over Chaminade.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by Andy Villanueva<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) &#8211; The \u201cstarting-five\u201d for Azusa Pacific all scored in double-digits as the Cougars held off visiting Chaminade, 82-62.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Azusa Pacific were cruising through nearly the entire game until the Silverswords mounted a comeback with a 12-0 run midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Hardeman led all Cougars with 20 points while tying the APU school record with 129-career blocks. She shares the record with Jessica Herman who played in 1998 and \u201999 season.<\/p>\n<p>The win guaranteed the Cougars a PacWest Conference Tournament berth and marked the 12th-straight season of 16-wins or more.<\/p>\n<p>The victory also gave Azusa Pacific a win heading into a crucial rematch with Cal Baptist on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars defense was stellar in the first limiting Chaminade to just 25-points with 18 coming from beyond the arc. The offense built an insurmountable lead heading into the break as they went on two 14-0 runs to cruise to a large halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the second half,\u201d APU head coach T.J. Hardeman. \u201cYou are never happy with losing a half. We felt like we were in good spots in the second half to play defense but sometimes we failed to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also helped that the inside game of Hardeman and Maggie Dumphy (16-points) showed their superiority as Azusa Pacific outscored the Silverswoards 24-2 in the paint in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Powell also had an outstanding night for the Cougars as she went 6 for 12 from the the field and scored 17-points on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Other Cougars in double digits were Miriam Zabinsky with 10-points and Cyndie Jones with 11-points and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>With two games remaining, Azusa Pacific will now position itself for the PacWest Conference tournament at Concordia University beginning on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GAME NOTES: The Cougars as a team outscored Chaminade 21-8 in second chance points\u2026.Dumphy also finished with six blocks and six steals to go along with eight rebounds for Azusa Pacific\u2026.The Cougars play Saturday against Cal Baptist at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Andy Villanueva (Glendora) &#8211; The \u201cstarting-five\u201d for Azusa Pacific all scored in double-digits as the Cougars held off visiting Chaminade, 82-62.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[10936,10948,10864,10947,10938,10866,10862,10867,10885],"class_list":["post-46700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-cougars","tag-chaminade-silverswords","tag-cyndie-jones","tag-jessica-herman","tag-katie-powell","tag-kelly-hardeman","tag-maggie-dumphy","tag-miriam-zabinsky","tag-t-j-hardeman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46703,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700\/revisions\/46703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}