{"id":4621,"date":"2013-10-07T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/football-downed-by-5-nassau\/"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:53:49","slug":"football-downed-by-5-nassau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/football-downed-by-5-nassau\/","title":{"rendered":"Football downed by #5 Nassau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The football team (1-3) lost to Nassau Community College (6-0), 68-20, on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings jumped out to an early lead when Nick Casale (Tamarac\/Troy) hit Larry Zimmerman (Pine Grove\/Pine Grove, PA) for a 75-yard touchdown. Nassau scored on their first drive, but Antwon Burney (Coral Gables\/Miami, FL) returned the ensuing kickoff for a 103-yard touchdown. The Lions scored again to take a 14-12 lead, but the Vikings fought right back with a Donnie Neal (Lewis\/Baltimore, MD) two-yard run. The Vikings had an 18-14 lead in the first quarter over the #5 team in the nation, but it was all Nassau after that. The Lions went on to score 54 unanswered points, en route to a 68-20 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman led the Vikings with five catches for 159 yards and one touchdown, while Burney racked up 194 all-purpose yards. Justin Bynum (Middletown\/Middletown) had his best day in a Viking uniform with 16 tackles, and Ashton McKenzie (Clinton\/Bronx) recorded three tackles for loss and a sack. McKenzie is seventh in the nation with five sacks on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings host Monroe on Saturday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:53:49 +0000 by\u00a0j.hoyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The football team (1-3) lost to Nassau Community College (6-0), 68-20, on Friday evening. The Vikings jumped out to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}