{"id":52071,"date":"2016-03-05T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52071"},"modified":"2016-03-05T23:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:41:52","slug":"azusa-pacific-vs-cal-baptist-pacwest-tournament-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52071","title":{"rendered":"Cal Baptist Runs over APU in PacWest Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52088\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_1305.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52088\" class=\"wp-image-52088 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_1305-543x768.jpg\" alt=\"Lydell Cardwell and the Cougars fall to Cal Baptist in the PacWest Conference Tournament Final\" width=\"520\" height=\"735\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydell Cardwell and the Cougars fall to Cal Baptist in the PacWest Conference Tournament Final<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Irvine, CA)\u00a0 &#8211; Gelaun Wheelwright and Michael Smith each scored 26 points to lead Cal Baptist to a 101-64 rout of Azusa Pacific Saturday at the University of Concordia to win the PacWest Tournament Championship.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Lancers effectively put the game away in the first half when they went on a 23-2 run that turned a one point game into a 36-14 lead. Wheelwright hit three three pointers during the run including consecutive treys and the Cougars could never get back in it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52089\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_1255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52089\" class=\"size-large wp-image-52089\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_1255-591x768.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Peterson was harassed by the Lancer defense all afternoon.\" width=\"520\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connor Peterson was harassed by the Lancer defense all afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cal Baptist still led by 21 at the half at 51-30 with Wheelwright having scored 16.<\/p>\n<p>Wheelwright was 9 of 16 from the floor including 6 of 10 from the land of plenty. Smith was 10 of 16 from the field hitting the Cougars with a devastating one-two punch. Smith took home Tournament MVP for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Birketoft also added 14 for CBU.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Peterson did what he could for Azusa Pacific as he continued to battle and finished with 12 points. Lydell Cardwell hit a couple from behind the arc and also contributed 12. Bruce English was in double figures as well with 11. Petar Kutlesic, the Cougars big man in the middle had a tough night and scored just two points.<br \/>\nCal Baptist improved to 27-6 overall with the win while APU fell to 22-8. Both teams will now wait to see where they land in the Regional Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>CBU 51 50 101<br \/>\nAPU 30 34 64<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Irvine, CA)\u00a0 &#8211; Gelaun Wheelwright and Michael Smith each scored 26 points to lead Cal Baptist to a 101-64 rout of Azusa Pacific Saturday at the University of Concordia to win the PacWest Tournament Championship.\u00a0 \u00a0\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":[8824,10929,11658,11645,10930,11659,10932,11650],"class_list":["post-52071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-cal-baptist-basketball","tag-concordia-university","tag-connor-peterson","tag-gelaun-wheelwright","tag-jordan-giusti","tag-michael-smith","tag-pacwest-tournament"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071","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=52071"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52091,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071\/revisions\/52091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}