{"id":24117,"date":"2025-02-12T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24117"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:35:07","slug":"patriots-falter-against-wells-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/patriots-falter-against-wells-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots falter against Wells opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pair of games this week against Wells County opponents did not go the way the Heritage Patriots hoped, with coach Kyle Sovine&#8217;s team going 0-2 against Bluffton and Norwell, ending a three-game winning streak and dropping the Patriots&#8217; season record to 10-8 heading into a difficult ACAC road game Friday at Jay County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patriots faced Bluffton for the first time this year and fell 40-32, dropping to 3-2 in the ACAC regular season standings and eliminated any hopes of sharing the conference title. No stats were provided for this contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heritage had a chance to bounce back with a non-conference win Tuesday at home against Norwell, but the Patriots struggled from behind the arc and the Knights went home with a 53-41 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/API_Small.bmp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18308\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Landon Lybarger led all scorers with 19 points, knocking down four threes and going 5 of 6 from the free throw line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taurean Brown was 4 of 5 from the field in the loss for a ten-point night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final home game of the season for Heritage will be Tuesday when the Patriots host North Side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of games this week against Wells County opponents did not go the way the Heritage Patriots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,51,26],"class_list":["post-24117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-heritage","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image0-82-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24118,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117\/revisions\/24118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}