{"id":22071,"date":"2019-02-20T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:26:49","slug":"bulldog-mens-basketball-storm-back-to-beat-edmonds-92-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2019\/02\/20\/bulldog-mens-basketball-storm-back-to-beat-edmonds-92-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Men&#8217;s Basketball Storm Back to Beat Edmonds 92-84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Malik Sanchez led Bellevue in the win over Edmonds. Photo by Rick May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an all-around team effort with several individuals making key contributions all night, the Bellevue College Bulldog men&#8217;s basketball team overtook the eight-ranked Edmonds Tritons tonight at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. Bellevue battled back from a three-point deficit at halftime with a 57% shooting percentage from the field for the big win.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the second half, Edmonds had a slight lead over the &#8216;dogs until the 8:18 mark when Bellevue&#8217;s Ting-Jiao Jian sank three free throws to tie the game at 66. The three shots gave Bellevue the momentum for good as Emmanuel Siale the drained a 15-footer to put Bellevue up 68-66 which was a lead Bellevue would not give up.<\/p>\n<p>In an explosive second half in which the Bulldogs scored 53 points, Malik Sanchez went 8-for-9 and had 18 points and six rebounds in the half to lead Bellevue&#8217;s comeback. Bellevue shot an amazing 68% in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez finished with 22 points while Jian had 20. Jian had a near perfect night in addition to his three clutch free throws to tie the game, as he was 6-for-8 from the field, 8-for-9 from the free throw line, and led the &#8216;dogs with seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>The huge win puts Bellevue just a half game out of second place at 6-4 (15-8 overall). The Bulldogs travel to Bremerton for a Saturday February 23 showdown against Olympic at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Sanchez led Bellevue in the win over Edmonds. Photo by Rick May. In an all-around team effort with several individuals making key contributions all night, the Bellevue College Bulldog men's basketball team overtook the eight-ranked Edmonds Tritons tonight at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. Bellevue battled back from a three-point deficit at halftime with a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2019\/02\/20\/bulldog-mens-basketball-storm-back-to-beat-edmonds-92-84\/\">...more about Bulldog Men&#8217;s Basketball Storm Back to Beat Edmonds 92-84<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":21957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mens-basketball","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22113,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions\/22113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}