{"id":34135,"date":"2013-09-07T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=34135"},"modified":"2013-09-07T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T06:05:13","slug":"not-so-grand-opening-for-apu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=34135","title":{"rendered":"Not so Grand Opening for APU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34136\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=34136\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34136\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34136\" alt=\"APU QB Dasmen Stewart\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/APU-FTBLL-9-2-13-001-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APU QB Dasmen Stewart<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Allendale, MI) &#8211; Terrell Watson ran for 174 yards and two touchdowns\u00a0but it wsn&#8217;t enough as Azusa Pacific fell to Grand Valley State\u00a038-17 Saturday night in the season opener. Watson became the\u00a0the eighth APU rusher all time to surpass 200o rushing yards\u00a0in a career.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Cougars turned the ball over\u00a0twice in the first quarter and they proved to be costly as Grand Valley took advantage\u00a0jumping out to a 24-0 halftime lead. Watson scored twice in the third\u00a0to cut the lead\u00a0to 31-17 but that was as close as APU got.<\/p>\n<p>***Watson moved from\u00a011th to 8th on the Cougars career rushing\u00a0list.<\/p>\n<p>***Grand Valley State is the winningest football porgram\u00a0in NCAA Division II history.<\/p>\n<p>***The two teams will also open the season next year when APU hosts Grand Valley State in September.<\/p>\n<p>***Starting Cougar quarterback Dasmen Stewart was 8 of 21 for 81 yards and 3 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>***Nick Owens replaced Stewart and completed\u00a07 of 8 for 62 yards.<\/p>\n<p>***Michael Ratay rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns for Grand Valley State.<\/p>\n<p>***13,659 fans were on hand to see the game at\u00a0Lubbers Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>***The Cougars were down 31-0 early in the third before scoring 17 straight points.<\/p>\n<p>***Despite the\u00a021 point difference, Grand Valley State had only 23 more yards than APU- 362-329.<\/p>\n<p>***Azusa Pacific travels to Dixie State in Utah next Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Allendale, MI) &#8211; Terrell Watson ran for 174 yards and two touchdowns\u00a0but it wsn&#8217;t enough as Azusa Pacific fell to Grand Valley State\u00a038-17 Saturday night in the season opener. Watson became the\u00a0the eighth APU rusher all time to surpass 200o rushing yards\u00a0in a career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34137,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135\/revisions\/34137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}