{"id":7860,"date":"2014-12-13T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2014-12-13T23:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T04:41:35","slug":"wake-forest-falls-in-finals-of-4-aa-football-to-mallard-creek-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7860","title":{"rendered":"Wake Forest falls in finals of 4-AA football to Mallard Creek&#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh.jpg\" alt=\"wakeforesthigh\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh.jpg 264w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wakeforesthigh-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Previously undefeated Wake Forest fell to Mallard Creek 25-14 in the finals of the state 4-AA championship Saturday night. The Cougars also lost to the Mavericks in last year&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>Mallard Creek took a lead it would never relinquish on the second play when quarterback James Smith broke loose for 70-yard rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the opening quarter, Smith threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Horton for a 12-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Forest got back in it late in the first half when Bryce Love capped a 14-play, 81-yard drive with a two-yard plunge. After the point after, the Cougars trailed just 12-7.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, Smith again found a seam and ran 37 yards for a score to increase the Mallard Creek lead to 19-7.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars didn&#8217;t give up and got back in it after a blocked punt in the fourth quarter. Wake Forest QB Mack Moore threw an 18-yard TD pass to Brooks Cunningham to cut the margin to five at 19-14.<\/p>\n<p>But Mallard Creek responded immediately with a quick pass-dominated drive that ended with a Smith quarterback sneak to wrap it up at 25-14 with five minutes left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously undefeated Wake Forest fell to Mallard Creek 25-14 in the finals of the state 4-AA championship Saturday night. The Cougars also lost to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}