{"id":847,"date":"2013-12-02T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=847"},"modified":"2013-12-04T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:39:39","slug":"alumni-vs-varsity-basketball-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/12\/02\/alumni-vs-varsity-basketball-game-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni vs. Varsity Basketball Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-848 alignleft\" alt=\"DSCN5166\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5166.jpg 1361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Jeff Pilgrim \u201881, Director of Alumni Relations<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, November 23rd, eight intrepid alumni took on the boys varsity basketball team.\u00a0 While the number of alumni who participated was lower than we hoped (next year, everyone!), those who did play put up quite a battle.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Tiger Craig Award winner Pat McKinnon &#8217;05 and Nic Emanouil &#8217;09, the alumni raced out to a halftime lead.\u00a0 Steve Hoyt Jr. &#8217;95, Paul McNeil &#8217;01, Will Kennedy &#8217;11, Sam Slezek &#8217;12, and Mike Moran &#8217;13 all chipped in with timely three-point shooting and clutch rebounds.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-849\" alt=\"DSCN5311\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5311-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5311-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5311-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/DSCN5311-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mike Silipo &#8217;07 gave the alumni a much-needed boost as he joined the squad for the second half and energized the crowd with some thrilling drives to the hoop.<\/p>\n<p>In the end though, numbers&#8230;and age&#8230;caught up with the alumni. Coach Athas played his top players most of the second half as the varsity pulled away to a 103-93 victory.\u00a0 It was one of the highest scoring alumni games in recent history.\u00a0 Following the game, the alumni retired to Amy&#8217;s Place for some beverages and appetizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeff Pilgrim \u201881, Director of Alumni Relations On Saturday, November 23rd, eight intrepid alumni took on the boys varsity basketball team.\u00a0 While the number of alumni who participated was lower than we hoped (next year, everyone!), those who did play put up quite a battle. Led by Tiger Craig Award winner Pat McKinnon &#8217;05 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/12\/02\/alumni-vs-varsity-basketball-game-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni vs. Varsity Basketball Game Recap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}