{"id":63167,"date":"2026-02-28T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=63167"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:15:40","slug":"fire-roll-past-st-thomas-to-reach-sun-conference-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/fire-roll-past-st-thomas-to-reach-sun-conference-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Roll Past St. Thomas to Reach Sun Conference Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"beafa9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #beafa9;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2026-02-28T171423.369.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63168 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top-seeded and No. 23-ranked Southeastern used an efficient offensive performance and a decisive third-quarter surge to defeat fourth-seeded St. Thomas, 84-63, Friday evening in the Sun Conference Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship Semifinals at The Furnace. With the victory, the Fire improved to 26-3 overall and advanced to Saturday&#8217;s championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded and No. 23-ranked Southeastern used an efficient offensive performance and a decisive third-quarter surge to defeat fourth-seeded St. Thomas, 84-63, Friday evening in the Sun Conference Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcL3VubmFtZWQtMjAyNi0wMi0yOFQxNzE0MjMuMzY5LndlYnA_Zml0PTMwMCUyQzE2OSZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkZpcmUgUm9sbCBQYXN0IFN0LiBUaG9tYXMgdG8gUmVhY2ggU3VuIENvbmZlcmVuY2UgQ2hhbXBpb25zaGlwIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.3RqhoTeZtNtzmYNy6GfbReo7vx_zPJD3z3GT2HWrZoMMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[13852],"class_list":["post-63167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seu-sports","tag-fire-roll-past-st-thomas-to-reach-sun-conference-championship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63167","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63169,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63167\/revisions\/63169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}