{"id":11445,"date":"2020-03-20T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2020-03-20T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:10:27","slug":"sun-sets-on-falcons-historic-hoops-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11445","title":{"rendered":"Sun sets on Falcons historic hoops season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Los-Fresnos-hoops-pic.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11446\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>The Falcons huddle up on the court after losing to San Antonio Brandeis in the Region IV-6A tournament semifinals on March 6.<\/em><\/strong> Team photo courtesy of Los Fresnos High Twitter page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By DAVE FAVILA<\/strong><br>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Los Fresnos boys basketball team\u2019s historic season came to a sudden end at the Region IV-6A tournament semifinals as the Falcons fell to the San Antonio Brandeis Broncos 64-52 on March 6 at North East ISD Littleton Gymnasium in San Antonio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This season marked the first time a Falcons hoops team had ever qualified for a regional tournament as they marched through the entire 2019-20 season and the first three rounds of the postseason nearly unchallenged.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even against Brandies, the Falcons played solid ball through three periods and tralied the Broncos by just two points at 44-42. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the final quarter, however, where the momentum completely shifted as the Broncos outscored the Falcons 20-10 to seal the victory. The Broncos went on to defeat Converse Judson in the regional finals, 75-68, and took on defending Class 6A champion Duncanville in the state semifinals on March 13 at the Alamodome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Falcons ended the season with a 33-4 record.<br> Senior Elian Gonzalez led the way for Los Fresnos with 14 points, followed by Gerry Martinez, who added 13, and senior Ricky Altamirano, who netted 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DAVE FAVILALFN The Los Fresnos boys basketball team\u2019s historic season came to a sudden end at the Region IV-6A tournament semifinals as the Falcons fell to the San Antonio Brandeis Broncos 64-52 on March 6 at North East ISD Littleton Gymnasium in San Antonio. This season marked the first time a Falcons hoops team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11449,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions\/11449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}