{"id":197,"date":"2025-01-21T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T00:04:16","slug":"panthers-win-71-62-vs-cleveland-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/panthers-win-71-62-vs-cleveland-cougars\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Win 71-62 vs. Cleveland Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Alex Gillenwalters, Sports Editor<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3592\" height=\"2309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Basketball1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of basketball player leaping into the air to shoot a hoop with other players looking on.\" class=\"wp-image-199\" style=\"width:660px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Pellissippi Panthers take on the Cleveland Cougars with a home court advantage. | Alex Gillenwalters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exciting match against Cleveland Cougars on Nov. 2, 2024, the Pellissippi Panthers kept a confident lead over Cleveland to secure the team a 71-62 win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game started off relaxed and competitive, but quickly turned into a heated match between the two schools. The first Panthers three point shot was made by Tony McDaniels (#3), a sophomore point guard. McDaniels was one of two people on the Panthers to score 20 or more points, ending the game with 22 points against the Cougars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Panthers first points were scored by Tavion Pride (#0), a sophomore point guard\/small forward. Pride continued to have an exhilarating game, ending the game with an outstanding 20 points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half the Panthers were down by five to the Cougars, with a halftime score of 31-36. It was a tough first half for the Panthers as they struggled to keep up with the Cougars explosive start of the game; Head Coach Darrian Jones kept the team together and got them to the second half saying, <strong>\u201c<\/strong>We need to play up,\u201d when asked about how this game would go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immediately into the second half, the energy felt elevated in the gymnasium. The crowd was louder, the players were more aggressive, and everyone was waiting for the next incredible play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Sharpe (#9) made an incredible run with a back to back play, from a deep three into a well executed layup passing by his defender. Only a few minutes later, the Panthers were starting to gain incredible momentum, with McDaniels and Pride leading the team to sweep the competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaping this game for the rest of the match, the tide turned from an even game into the Panthers on a 17-0 run. The Panthers kept their lead on the Cougars to finish the game out, leading their team to their second win of the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Gillenwalters, Sports Editor In an exciting match against Cleveland Cougars on Nov. 2, 2024, the Pellissippi Panthers kept a confident lead over Cleveland to secure the team a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}