{"id":39565,"date":"2016-04-02T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T00:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39565"},"modified":"2016-04-02T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T00:18:42","slug":"fgcu-women-fall-in-wnit-title-game-71-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/fgcu-women-fall-in-wnit-title-game-71-65\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU Women Fall in WNIT Title Game, 71-65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wpid-fb_img_1459642582556.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"FB_IMG_1459642582556.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wpid-fb_img_1459642582556.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP is reporting; Tia Hemiller had 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists AP and South Dakota beat Florida Gulf Coast 71-65 on Saturday to win the WNIT championship.<\/p>\n<p>South Dakota outscored FGCU 10-2, with five points from Hemiller, to start the third quarter for a 41-29 lead. FGCU got within 53-51 with 5:11 remaining, but the Eagles did not make another field goal until the 1:09 mark. South Dakota made three 3-pointers and 7 of 8 free throws in the final five minutes to seal it.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Stewart added 12 points and Abigail Fogg 10 for South Dakota (32-6), which tied a Summit League record for most single-season wins. Stewart and Fogg each had three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Seekamp, the tournament MVP and South Dakota&#8217;s leading scorer at 16.1 points per game, was held to seven points on 3-of-15 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Kaneisha Atwater led Florida Gulf Coast (33-6) with 25 points. Taylor Gradinjan added 12 and Stephanie Haas 10. Whitney Knight tied a career-high with nine blocked shots &#8211; one short of the WNIT record.<\/p>\n<p>The announced attendance of 7,415 was the most in South Dakota&#8217;s Division I history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP is reporting; Tia Hemiller had 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists AP and South Dakota beat Florida Gulf Coast 71-65 on Saturday to win the WNIT championship. South&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565"}],"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=39565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}