{"id":5049,"date":"2019-11-23T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2019-11-23T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:00:01","slug":"eagles-end-a-winning-streak-with-loss-to-chipola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/11\/23\/eagles-end-a-winning-streak-with-loss-to-chipola\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles end a winning streak with loss to Chipola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TK Smith. Polk State vs Chipola. Winter Haven, Fla. Nov. 23, 2019. (Photo by Tom Hagerty, Polk State.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 Polk State\u2019s six-game winning streak ended tonight with a 77-71 loss to Chipola College (No. 2 FCSAA, No. 5 NJCAA) on the final day of the Josh Giles Memorial Classic in Winter Haven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After taking an early 11-9 lead, the Eagles trailed 41-35 at halftime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They kept it close in the second half and tied the score at 58 with 8:50 left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After taking a 63-62 advantage, however, Polk State fell behind 65-63 and never enjoyed another lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we expected, it was a big-time game with a lot of talent on both teams,\u201d said Head Coach Brandon Giles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe refs did a great job of letting both teams play consistently. I don\u2019t think fouls were lopsided at any point in the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were able to get stops when we needed them, but we weren\u2019t converting them like we needed to on the offensive end, especially late in the second half when were down by two points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarence Jackson had a game-high 18 points and grabbed four rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tekorian \u201cTK\u201d Smith  put 16 points on the board while pulling down three rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm Stevenson added 11 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles (6-1, No. 4 FCSAA) travel to Ocala on Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. game at College of Central Florida (6-2, No. 10 FCSAA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to turn the page, and I know our guys will be prepared Tuesday,\u201d said Giles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat game will be a good road test for us. We\u2019re excited to go to Ocala and play a well-coached Central Florida team.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including Tuesday\u2019s game, Polk State plays seven times on the road before facing Central Florida at 3 p.m. on New Year\u2019s Day in Winter Haven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Polk State\u2019s six-game winning streak ended tonight with a 77-71 loss to Chipola College (No. 2 FCSAA, No. 5 NJCAA) on the final day of the Josh Giles Memorial Classic… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"31","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polk-state-college-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}