{"id":397637,"date":"2026-09-12T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:08:09","slug":"jacksonville-pulls-away-from-topsail-47-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397637\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville pulls away from Topsail, 47-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/topsail-helmet-1024x576.png\" class=\"wp-image-4473415 attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/>(Photo\/Kayla Precht\/ WWAY<\/p>\n<p>HAMPSTEAD, NC (WWAY) \u2014 Topsail welcomed Jacksonville Friday night looking for its first-ever win against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The game got off to a delayed start because of lightning, but Jacksonville quickly made an impact once play began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Cardinals struck first on special teams when Domonic Williams returned a Topsail punt for a touchdown, making a defender miss on his way to the end zone to give Jacksonville a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Topsail answered on its next drive. Luca Van Der Lee took the handoff and found the end zone, tying the game at 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Jacksonville regained the lead late in the first half. With nine seconds left in the second quarter, Josiah Benton connected with Sarron Thompson for a touchdown, sending the Cardinals into halftime with a 14-7 advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Jacksonville pulled away in the second half, defeating Topsail 47-20.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates fall to 1-3 on the season and will begin conference play next week against Ashley.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo\/Kayla Precht\/ WWAY HAMPSTEAD, NC (WWAY) \u2014 Topsail welcomed Jacksonville Friday night looking for its first-ever win against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158468,158469,1745,116,153813,118,158470,117,158471,158472,156437],"class_list":["post-397637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-cape-fear-high-school-football","tag-hampstead-nc","tag-high-school-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-cardinals","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-nc-football","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pender-county-sports","tag-topsail-football","tag-topsail-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}