{"id":636,"date":"2010-01-16T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=636"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:57:27","slug":"making-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Making the Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_640\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-640\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"SAS Forward Lavell Ellick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-lav-ellick-drive3-11.jpg\" alt=\"Lavell Ellick\" width=\"432\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-lav-ellick-drive3-11.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-lav-ellick-drive3-11-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAS&#8217;s Lavell Ellick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) varsity basketball has passed the test. Three years ago when I covered their inaugural campaign they were winless and at the bottom of their division. I saw them play Onondaga last night and they won 73-63 to maintain their place at the top of the Patriot League division. They have gone from the basement to a serious contender thanks to a blend of speed and inside strength. Lavell Ellick (pictured above) was an original member of the inaugural team\u00a0and last night he scored 19 points.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_641\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-641 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"SAS Forward Marques Young\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-marques-young-shot1.jpg\" alt=\"Marques Young\" width=\"274\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-marques-young-shot1.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sas-marques-young-shot1-152x300.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAS&#8217;s Marques Young<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) varsity basketball has passed the test. Three years ago when I covered their inaugural campaign they were winless and at the bottom of their division. I saw them play Onondaga last night and they won 73-63 to maintain their place at the top of the Patriot League division. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[752,747,749,751,748,745,746,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}