{"id":51846,"date":"2016-02-13T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51846"},"modified":"2016-02-14T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T09:22:10","slug":"azusa-pacific-23-pt-loma-21-1st-half-634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51846","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Have the Inside Track on Point Loma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51858\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51858\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51858\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51858\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0922-550x768.jpg\" alt=\"Petar Kutlesic slams home two of his game high 24\" width=\"520\" height=\"726\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petar Kutlesic slams home two of his game high 24<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) &#8211; Azusa Pacific went inside as\u00a0Petar\u00a0Kutlesic and Austin Dyer combined for 43 points to lead\u00a0Azusa Pacific to a 77-72 win over Point Loma Saturday night at\u00a0Felix Event Center.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kutlesic,\u00a0the 6&#8217;9&#8243; center from Serbia,\u00a0was a monster down low all night as he also pulled down 16 rebounds and went 11 for 14 from the floor.\u00a0Tied at 51 in the second half, the Cougars went on a 7-0 run capped by a three point play by Kutlesic\u00a0for\u00a0 58-51 advantage with 9:00 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Lydell Cardwell then knocked down a three\u00a0for a 61-53 lead and a minute later Bruce English buried one from long distance to put the Cougars up 64-56 with 7:40 left.<\/p>\n<p>But the Sea Lions wouldn&#8217;t go away and cut the Cougar lead to 75-72 late in the game.\u00a0Cardwell\u00a0calmly sank a pair of free throws with five seconds\u00a0left to ice it.<\/p>\n<p>Dyer had 10 points in the first half and\u00a0was 9 of 10 from the floor\u00a0and teamed up with Kutlesic to give\u00a0the Cougars a\u00a0one-two punch. Kutlesic also had 10 in the first half.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51859\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51859\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51859\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51859\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0975-562x768.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Dyer was the left to Kutlesic's right with 19 big points \" width=\"520\" height=\"711\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Dyer was the left to Kutlesic&#8217;s right with 19 big points<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Planeta and\u00a0Josh Rodriguez kept Point Loma in the game scoring 18 and 17 points respectively. Planeta was 4 for 7 from three point range and Rodriguez hit three from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Point Loma, which was\u00a0depleted by injury and only played six players,\u00a0eventually wore down in the end. The Sea Lions had four players in double figures with Zach Burnham adding 14 and\u00a0Aaron Roedl scoring 12.<\/p>\n<p>Cardwell finished with 7 for the Cougars\u00a0while Joey Schreiber had\u00a09 and English 8.<\/p>\n<p>Azusa Pacific improved to\u00a017-6 overall (11-4 in the PacWest) while Point Loma fell to 11-10, 6-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Glendora) &#8211; Azusa Pacific went inside as\u00a0Petar\u00a0Kutlesic and Austin Dyer combined for 43 points to lead\u00a0Azusa Pacific to a 77-72 win over Point Loma Saturday night at\u00a0Felix 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":[11630,8824,4944,8846,11633,11631,10827,10888,10871,11632],"class_list":["post-51846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-austin-dyer","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-bruce-english","tag-felix-event-center","tag-joey-schreiber","tag-josh-rodriguez","tag-lydell-cardwell","tag-petar-kutlesic","tag-point-loma-basketball","tag-zach-burnham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846","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=51846"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51860,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846\/revisions\/51860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}