{"id":215710,"date":"2026-01-02T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/215710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:25:09","slug":"gorillas-fall-on-the-road-to-no-11-uafs-72-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/215710\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillas Fall on the Road to No. 11 UAFS, 72-58"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Pittsburg State University men’s basketball team dropped a 72-58 road decision to unbeaten and No. 11 ranked University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Thursday (Jan. 1).<\/p>\n

The Gorillas (8-5, 2-1 MIAA) dropped their first game in league play, while the Lions (12-0, 3-0 MIAA) maintained their unblemished conference slate.<\/p>\n

Freshman guard Mason English<\/a> and junior guard Connor Rogers<\/a> contributed 11 points apiece to pace the Pitt State offense. English added seven rebounds and four assists on the afternoon. Freshman forward Ethan Sage<\/a> chipped in with 10 points and five rebounds in his return to action, after being sidelined the past eight games with an injury.<\/p>\n

The Gorillas shot just 37.3 percent from the field for the game (19-51) and Pitt State connected on just eight of 22 3-point field goal attempts (.364).<\/p>\n

UAFS got 15 points from Brandon Scott and 14 more from Kanaan Holder.<\/p>\n

Pitt State will continue its three-game MIAA road swing by traveling to Tahlequah, Okla., to battle Northeastern State University Saturday (Jan. 3) at the NSU Event Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Game: at Northeastern State 1\/3\/2026 | 3:30 PM Gorilla Sports Network Jan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-215710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}