{"id":131964,"date":"2026-03-07T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:24:07","slug":"bethlehem-christian-trounces-lourdes-in-opening-round-of-piaa-class-a-playoffs-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131964\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Christian trounces Lourdes in opening round of PIAA Class A playoffs | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Easton Area Middle School the venue for a PIAA Class A boys basketball first round game between Bethlehem Christian and Lourdes.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers off to a blistering start as Gabe Transue follows up the miss down low with a putback and it&#8217;s 19-4.<\/p>\n<p>Second quarter more of the same from the District 11 champs, Deion Swift with the strong take to the bucket and he lays it in and the lead is 40-20.<\/p>\n<p>Lourdes couldn&#8217;t find an answer for Transue as he drills the three in the third quarter. He would finish with 36 points and the Panthers win 86-56.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Christian will play Sankofa Freedom on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Easton Area Middle School the venue for a PIAA Class A boys basketball first round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,58855,51696,61179,511],"class_list":["post-131964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-deion-swift","tag-gabe-transue","tag-lourdes","tag-piaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}