{"id":2128,"date":"2022-03-19T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2022-03-19T01:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T01:30:43","slug":"colonels-promoted-covington-catholic-holds-off-lyon-county-59-57-advances-to-sweet-16-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"Colonels promoted\/Covington Catholic  holds off Lyon County 59-57, advances to Sweet 16 semis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"2129\" src=\"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_193850066_2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIT 7 of 9 FREE THROWS IN ITS 59-57 VICTORY OVER LYON COUNTY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LEXINGTON &#8212; Covington Catholic&#8217;s Kascyl McGillis scored 17 points and Colonels teammate Mitchell Riley added 16 points and 11 rebounds, sending Catholic to a 59-57 victory over Lyon County in the KHSAA Boys Sweet Sixteen quarterfinals on Friday night at Rupp Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covington Catholic improved to 30-4 and will face either Warren Central or Murray High School in the second Sweet Sixteen semifinal game on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyon County finishes its season 26-10. Travis Perry had 21 points and seven rebounds for the Lions, and teammate Jackson Shoulders added 14 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catholic hit 8 of 21 3-pointers, or 38 percent, compared to Lyon County&#8217;s 2-for-11 showing (18 percent) from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2130\" src=\"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-847x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-1271x1536.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2-1694x2048.jpg 1694w, https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220318_192307930_2.jpg 1881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><figcaption>LYON COUNTY FINISHES ITS SEASON WITH A 26-10 RECORD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON &#8212; Covington Catholic&#8217;s Kascyl McGillis scored 17 points and Colonels teammate Mitchell Riley added 16 points and 11 rebounds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hsbaseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}