{"id":1683,"date":"2015-03-08T23:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:38:04","slug":"boys-basketball-wins-nepsac-class-a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/03\/08\/boys-basketball-wins-nepsac-class-a-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Basketball Wins NEPSAC Class A Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/03\/richmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1684\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/03\/richmond-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"richmond\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/03\/richmond-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/03\/richmond-158x250.jpg 158w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/03\/richmond.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>In a thrilling NEPSAC Class A Championship game, Williston edged rival Suffield Academy by 51-48.\u00a0\u00a0 The Wildcats came out of the gates fast behind the hot shooting of guards Ryan Richmond \u201915 and Jake Ross \u201916.\u00a0\u00a0 The Suffield Tigers proved up to the challenge as they battled from behind all day, refusing to let the Wildcats pull away. The Wildcats led at the half 30-25.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, the game remained closely contested.\u00a0 The Tigers used a strong inside game to keep the score close.\u00a0\u00a0 With under a minute to play, clinging to a 48-47 lead, Williston junior Jake Ross came up with a key steal and converted one of two free throws to up the precarious lead to 49-47.\u00a0\u00a0Suffield turned the ball over on the next possession and quickly fouled junior Chris Hudson.\u00a0 Hudson calmly sank both free throws to seal the victory for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tremendous season for Williston and first year coach Mike Shelton as the team made the move from Class B to Class A.\u00a0 \u00a0The Wildcats finished 23-3, avenging their only Class A loss.\u00a0 Suffield and Williston split their two game series during the season.\u00a0 The Wildcats were led by Tournament MVP Richmond with 15 followed by Ross and Hudson with 11 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling NEPSAC Class A Championship game, Williston edged rival Suffield Academy by 51-48.\u00a0\u00a0 The Wildcats came out of the gates fast behind the hot shooting of guards Ryan Richmond \u201915 and Jake Ross \u201916.\u00a0\u00a0 The Suffield Tigers proved up to the challenge as they battled from behind all day, refusing to let the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/03\/08\/boys-basketball-wins-nepsac-class-a-championship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boys Basketball Wins NEPSAC Class A Championship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}