{"id":56460,"date":"2016-11-13T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=56460"},"modified":"2016-11-13T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:01:33","slug":"cougars-lose-finale-advance-to-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=56460","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Lose Finale; Advance to Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56171\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=56171\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56171\" class=\"size-large wp-image-56171\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6611-606x768.jpg\" alt=\"WR Weston Carr and the Cougars are headed to the Division II Playoffs (Photo by Duane Barker) \" width=\"520\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WR Weston Carr and the Cougars are headed to the Division II Playoffs (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Azusa Pacific fell to\u00a0Colorado Mesa\u00a033-24 Saturday afternoon in the regular season finale but the Cougars\u00a0found out Sunday that they advanced\u00a0to the Division II playoffs.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Azusa Pacific (9-2) will travel to\u00a0South Dakota to face undefeated Sioux Falls (11-0)\u00a0in the first round\u00a0this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars went unbeaten in the GNAC and both of their losses were to teams that are also in the D-II post season.\u00a0APU fell to\u00a0Colorado School of Mines,\u00a0along with Colorado Mesa, teams that also both went 9-2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson Azusa Pacific fell to\u00a0Colorado Mesa\u00a033-24 Saturday afternoon in the regular season finale but the Cougars\u00a0found out Sunday that they advanced\u00a0to the Division II playoffs.\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":[8101,12417,12424,12426,12425,12327],"class_list":["post-56460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-football","tag-colorado-mesa-football","tag-colorado-school-of-mines-football","tag-division-ii-playoffs","tag-sioux-falls-football","tag-weston-carr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460","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=56460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56461,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460\/revisions\/56461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}