{"id":3256,"date":"2010-11-21T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2010-11-22T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:40:28","slug":"north-country-football-squad-advances-to-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/21\/north-country-football-squad-advances-to-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country football squad advances to state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Brown High School Lions &#8212; from Dexter, just west of Watertown &#8212; triumphed on Saturday, fighting their way into the Class C state championship in Syracuse.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101120\/NEWS09\/101129995\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General Brown made north country high school  football history Saturday by becoming the first team from the area to  advance to a state football championship with its 19-14 victory over  Fredonia at Marina Auto Stadium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, two other North Country football dynasties were toppled over the weekend, with Saranac Lake (Class C) falling short against the Bronxville Broncos.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/521590\/Broncos-run-past-Red-Storm.html?nav=5008\">This from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bronxville running back Christian Conway racked up 269 yards and three touchdowns, earning offensive MVP honors for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Saranac  Lake did most of its damage through the air, as senior quarterback  Forrest Morgan threw for 265 yards and a touchdown to keep the game  within reach up until the fourth quarter when Bronxville pulled away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Class D play, the Moriah Vikings fell to Tuckahoe.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0305_high_school_sports\/x1089583483\/Tuckahoe-upstages-Moriah\">This from the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moriah&#8217;s vaunted rushing attack was held to 86 yards on 33 carries, the  first time it failed to crack 100 yards since losing to Randolph in the  2009 state title game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a brilliant football year for the North Country and with the Lions advancing to the championships, the region has one more weekend of high school ball in store.\u00a0 Go Lions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Brown High School Lions &#8212; from Dexter, just west of Watertown &#8212; triumphed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}