{"id":521,"date":"2018-04-02T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=521"},"modified":"2018-04-09T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:31:07","slug":"wildcats-varsity-take-third-at-methodist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats Varsity Take Third at Spring Tip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11\/12th grade boy&#8217;s Dunn Wildcats basketball team earned a 3rd-place finish at the USBA Spring Tip-Off last weekend at Methodist University in Fayetteville.<\/p>\n<p>After winning two games in pool play and earning a 2-seed, they lost their elimination game 65-64 Saturday evening against the eventual champion, the LBA Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 1 against the Fayetteville Spurs on Friday night, the Wildcats won 66-52.<br \/>\nJunior Khalil Ridges led the way with a team-high 22 points while making 8 of 13 shots.  He also added 1 steal.  Junior Chrishaun Henry added 14 points and 6 rebounds on 55% shooting.  Senior Shiquan Cox added 13 points and 5 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 2 against the LBA Thunder Saturday morning, they won 67-60.<br \/>\nSenior Maurice Williams went off for 30 points while making 11 of his 18 attempts.  He also added 4 rebounds and 3 steals.  Shiquan Cox contributed 16 points and grabbed 7 boards.  Junior Kani McKinley had a nice defensive game with 4 blocks and 4 steals.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination round saw a Wildcats and Thunder rematch where Dunn fell, 65-64.<br \/>\nKhalil Ridges led the team again with 25 points, making 8 of 13 shots.  Maurice Williams finished with 18 points on 7 of 12 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats will be back in Fayetteville this weekend for the Regional Tip-Off at Freedom Courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11\/12th grade boy&#8217;s Dunn Wildcats basketball team earned a 3rd-place finish at the USBA Spring Tip-Off last weekend at Methodist University in Fayetteville. After winning two games in pool play and earning a 2-seed, they lost their elimination game&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=521\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}