{"id":51720,"date":"2016-02-01T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51720"},"modified":"2016-02-01T23:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:45:43","slug":"cougars-hit-by-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51720","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Hit by Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51721\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51721\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51721\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51721\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0707-591x768.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Dyer goes up for the Cougs\" width=\"520\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Dyer goes up for the Cougs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0Azusa Pacific\u00a0had one last shot but\u00a0Bruce English&#8217;s long three from beyond half court came up empty and the Cougars fell to Hawaii Pacific\u00a083-80 Monday night at Felix Event Center. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was a\u00a0back and forth affair that saw the lead change hands 13 times and there were five ties. Hawaii Pacific led\u00a036-34 at the half. The Sharks biggest lead of the night was eight and\u00a0the Cougars was five-the first five points of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Those five points of the game were courtesy of Lydell Cardwell, who knocked down a three and\u00a0a short jumper to get the Cougs off and running.\u00a0The lead didn&#8217;t last long however as the Sharks surged back.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Martin\u00a0\u00a0and Chauncey Orr each had 22 for Hawaii\u00a0Pacific with Orr going eight for eight from the line.\u00a0Colfax Nordquist was also in double figures with 13.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51722\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51722\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51722\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51722\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0727-536x768.jpg\" alt=\"Will Ward had 12 tough points down in the paint but it wasn't enough for APU\" width=\"520\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Ward had 12 tough points down in the paint but it wasn&#8217;t enough for APU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>English led the\u00a0Cougars in scoring with\u00a022 going nine for 16 from the field\u00a0including three for eight from the land of plenty.\u00a0Will Ward\u00a0was a threat down in the paint with 12 and Austin Dyer added 11. Connor Peterson and Cardwell rounded out the scoring with 9 and 8 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Azusa Pacific had a big edge in field goal percentage\u00a049-34 but the Sharks\u00a0made 23 free throws compared to\u00a018 for APU. And in the end\u00a0they proved to be three points better.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars dropped to 15-6 overall (9-4 in the PacWest) while the Sharks improved to 14-6, 9-4.<\/p>\n<p>HP\u00a0 36\u00a0 47\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 83<\/p>\n<p>AP\u00a0 34\u00a0 46\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 80<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0Azusa Pacific\u00a0had one last shot but\u00a0Bruce English&#8217;s long three from beyond half court came up empty and the Cougars fell to Hawaii Pacific\u00a083-80 Monday night at 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":[8824,11619,10886],"class_list":["post-51720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-hawaii-pacific-basketball","tag-pacwest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720","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=51720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51724,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720\/revisions\/51724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}