{"id":34261,"date":"2025-02-03T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=34261"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:58:10","slug":"hoops-thriller-ends-in-four-overtimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=34261","title":{"rendered":"Hoops Thriller Ends in Four Overtimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photography Provided by Varsity Vantage<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_9295-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_9295-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_9295-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8943-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8943-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8943-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8793-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8793-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8793-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-D06_1102-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-D06_1102-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-D06_1102-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a thrilling encounter on January 11, 2025, the Chatham High School girls&#8217; basketball team edged out Westfield High School with a 61-55 victory in a marathon four-overtime game. This win marked Chatham&#8217;s 11th consecutive victory, maintaining their unbeaten streak for the season. <\/p>\n<p>The game was a testament to endurance and skill, with both teams displaying remarkable tenacity. <\/p>\n<p>Chatham&#8217;s forward, Grace Kreuzer, delivered an outstanding performance, leading all scorers with 27 points. <\/p>\n<p>Guard Grace Cloud also made pivotal contributions, including a crucial three-pointer in the fourth overtime that helped secure the win. <\/p>\n<p>Westfield demonstrated resilience throughout the game, pushing the contest into multiple overtimes and challenging Chatham at every turn. <\/p>\n<p>Leading the effort for Westfield: #15 Megan Logan scored 15 Points, Catie Carayannopoulos pulled in 15 Rebounds and Sophie Lane had 4 Steals. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8769-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8769-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8769-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8491-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8491-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-WEB-20250111-WHS-Girls-Bball-v-Chatham-DS6_8491-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography Provided by Varsity Vantage In a thrilling encounter on January 11, 2025, the Chatham High School girls&#8217; basketball team edged out Westfield High School with a 61-55 victory in a marathon four-overtime game. This win marked Chatham&#8217;s 11th consecutive victory, maintaining their unbeaten streak for the season. The game was a testament to endurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,167,151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-34261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-feature-westfield-local","category-local-sports","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34269,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34261\/revisions\/34269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34261"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=34261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}