{"id":35047,"date":"2015-02-18T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35047"},"modified":"2015-02-18T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:11:50","slug":"lehigh-returns-to-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/lehigh-returns-to-regional-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Returns To Regional Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh\u00a0Acres\u00a0Gazette by\u00a0Dick Allen \u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lehighacresgazette\/sets\/72157650879545741\/\">Click here<\/a> to see other photos of the game)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35048\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35048\" title=\"16381290659_264a2c8c82_z\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16381290659_264a2c8c82_z-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16381290659_264a2c8c82_z-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16381290659_264a2c8c82_z.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#2 Emmitt Williams sending home <br \/>the crowd into still another frenzy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Different team, the same ending.\u00a0It looked like a replay of Lehigh&#8217;s Fab. Freshman<\/p>\n<p>Emmitt Williams sending home the crowd into still another frenzy with a one-handed slam dunk (4 for the evening) in the closing seconds in putting the Charlotte Pirates away for good\u00a068-51 last night.<\/p>\n<p>The win, the 26th of the season for the Lehigh Lightning, moves them\u00a0to the Regional Championship game,\u00a0two\u00a0wins away from\u00a0the Florida\u00a0State Title. &#8220;I think we can win states with the way we&#8217;re playing right now, &#8220;Williams said after the game. And perhaps rightly so as with\u00a05:22\u00a0remaining in the first period he\u00a0picked up his second foul and sat the\u00a0rest of the\u00a0half on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>He watched as his teammates\u2019 turned up\u00a0the defense\u00a0and scored 11 straight points\u00a0closing out the first period as Deljuan Thomas and senior captain Abed Abu-Khadier caught fire. At the half it was 39 &#8211; 30, and\u00a0Lehigh was not about to look back.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh showed spectacular offense and defensive play from every position especially\u00a0from off the bench. Sophomore guard Stefan Srawder had 11 points,\u00a0while Williams led the scoring with 19 points, 11 in the 4th quarter.\u00a0Head Coach Dawn McNew praised team chemistry and the senior leadership of her point guard Abu-Khadier while\u00a0echoing Srawder&#8217;s comment &#8220;We&#8217;ve got what it takes if we all show up and play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning will\u00a0travel to play Jefferson High School \u00a0in Tampa the winner over Newport Richey Mitchell H.S. 79-65 in the other semifinal game. The Region 6A-3\u00a0Championship will be decided\u00a0this Saturday\u00a0night in Tampa at 7 PM. The school is looking into a &#8220;fan&#8221; bus for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em> will let you as soon as possible at that fan bus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh\u00a0Acres\u00a0Gazette by\u00a0Dick Allen \u00a0 (Click here to see other photos of the game) Different team, the same ending.\u00a0It looked like a replay of Lehigh&#8217;s Fab. Freshman Emmitt&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}