{"id":7870,"date":"2021-11-16T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=7870"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:30:56","slug":"lady-tigers-pound-prairiland-to-open-season-71-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/lady-tigers-pound-prairiland-to-open-season-71-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Tigers Pound Prairiland to Open Season, 71-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger basketball team tipped off their season on the road with a convincing victory over the Prairiland Patriots on Tuesday night. The Lady Tigers are looking to win the district title outright this season after securing a three-way tie for district champions last year with Hallsville and Sulphur Springs.<\/h3>\n<h3>Mount Pleasant opened the game on a 20-2 run as their relentless full court pressure turned the Patriots over multiple times. By halftime, the Lady Tiger lead had ballooned to 37-11 and maintained that pace the rest of the way as Prairiland was never able to put together a double-digit scoring quarter. Jordyn Hargrave led all scorers with 24 points on 11 of 15 shooting from the floor. Paris Beard followed up with 15 points to go along with a team high 7 steals. Ella Cross also scored in double figures with 10 points and pulled down 7 rebounds. Other scorers were Aziyah Farrier 8 points, Amiah Thornton 6 points, Citreauna Keeton 3 points, Conlee Zachry 3 points, and Kendall Walker 2 points. Thornton led the Lady Tigers on the boards with 10 rebounds and Farrier controlled the paint with 4 blocks.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Lady Tigers will play their home opener this Saturday at Willie Williams Gym with the JV set to tip at noon and the Varsity at 1 PM.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photo by John Whitten<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger basketball team tipped off their season on the road with a convincing victory over the Prairiland Patriots on Tuesday night. The Lady Tigers are looking to win the district title outright this season after securing a three-way tie for district champions last year with Hallsville and Sulphur Springs. Mount Pleasant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}