{"id":1962,"date":"2014-02-04T20:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/04\/furman-over-unc-greenville-b\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:41:50","slug":"furman-over-unc-greenville-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-over-unc-greenville-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman over UNC, Greenville B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a frigid night in Paladin Stadium, Furman put together a fine second half in defeating Division I UNC 29-20 January 24.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Turner Morches, Pearson Fowler, Rusty Johnson and Eric Dolan found the tryzone for the Paladins. The larger UNC team scored first to stake a 5-0 lead. Jacob Milchuck added two penalty kicks for the Paladins to give Furman a 6-5 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The teams traded scores throughout most the game with the contest in doubt until Fowler and Johnson scored quick back-to-back trys near the 75 minute mark to put Furman ahead 29-15. UNC muscled in a try on the game&#8217;s final play to cut the Paladin lead to nine.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 1 the team played an informal friendly game against Greenville&#8217;s B-side at Roberts Field. Eleven members of Paladin squad suited out in the non-mandatory game. Coach Roberts, Greg Dover &#8217;05 and a two Greenville reserves filled out the Paladin side. Furman scored early and often in building 30-10 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>The larger Griffins team rebounded in the second half but the Purple team prevailed 50-25 in the friendly affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a frigid night in Paladin Stadium, Furman put together a fine second half in defeating Division I UNC 29-20 January 24. Captain Turner Morches, Pearson Fowler, Rusty Johnson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}