{"id":1627,"date":"2013-09-30T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/30\/furman-shakes-off-lander-47-15\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:48:49","slug":"furman-shakes-off-lander-47-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-shakes-off-lander-47-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman shakes off Lander 47-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/coaching.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8385 alignleft lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 298px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 298\/448;border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"coaching\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/coaching.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"448\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Furman shook off a feisty Lander team Saturday to take home a 47-15 win.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Paladins move to 2-0 and have outscored its two opponents 143-15.<\/p>\n<p>The Furman team got off to a quick start with clean rucking and smooth system play. Freshman Patrick Musau, playing 8-man, and junior winger Derek Jones scored trys in the first 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But poor defense allowed the Bearcats to claw back into the game. Lander scored a breakaway try and penalty kick during the next ten minutes to slice the Paladin lead to 14-8.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Turner Morsches salvaged what could have been a disastrous half by scoring two trys\u00a0 at the 35 and 40-minute mark to put the Paladins ahead 28-8 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Furman found some aggression and bit of rhythm as Eric Dolan, Adam Miller and Richard Budd found the try zone. The Paladins surrendered a late try to the Bearcats at the 72-minute mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur backline passing was off and we lacked good rucking play,\u201d said Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cLander plays a disruptive style and they kept us from generating much forward motion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said Furman\u2019s defensive play, too, was uninspiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not our best effort,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019ll learn from it and get better next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furman hosts Elon 10 a.m. Saturday at Roberts Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman shook off a feisty Lander team Saturday to take home a 47-15 win. With the victory, the Paladins move to 2-0 and have outscored its two opponents 143-15. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}