{"id":2362,"date":"2014-02-11T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:09:44","slug":"basketball-teams-take-a-bite-out-of-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/02\/11\/basketball-teams-take-a-bite-out-of-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball teams take a bite out of Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cascades women\u2019s basketball sweep UNBC to close out weekend<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The UFV<b> Cascades women\u2019s basketball <\/b>team (15-5) took the <b>UNBC Timberwolves<\/b> (4-16) to task for a second consecutive night with an 88-51 road victory Saturday. UFV pulled ahead in the first quarter and never let up, building leads that climbed into the mid-thirties during the second half. The Cascades are still tied with <b>UBC <\/b>for first in the <b>Pacific division<\/b>, while <b>Victoria<\/b> has fallen off the pace with a surprise loss to <b>TRU<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>UFV beat the Timberwolves 79-63 in Prince George Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cascades survive, and survive, and survive to outlast Timberwolves 67-61<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>UNBC Timberwolves<\/b> (4-16) left it all on the floor Saturday, but it wasn\u2019t quite enough to vanquish the high-flying UFV<b> Cascades men\u2019s basketball <\/b>team (15-5), who scraped out a 67-61 victory by the sweat of their brows and the skin of their shooting hands. Saturday\u2019s game was the closest the Cascades have played in some time, so close that they led by only two points with 1:30 remaining in the fourth quarter. UFV now sits at second in the <b>Pacific division<\/b>, two games down from <b>Victoria<\/b> and three games up on <b>TRU<\/b> with only two games remaining in the season.<\/p>\n<p>UFV&#8217;s men beat the Timberwolves 87-62 Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cascades women\u2019s basketball sweep UNBC to close out weekend The UFV Cascades women\u2019s basketball team (15-5) took the UNBC Timberwolves (4-16) to task for a second consecutive night with an 88-51 road victory Saturday. UFV pulled ahead in the first quarter and never let up, building leads that climbed into the mid-thirties during the second &#8230; <a title=\"Basketball teams take a bite out of Timberwolves\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/02\/11\/basketball-teams-take-a-bite-out-of-timberwolves\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}