{"id":1810,"date":"2021-09-03T00:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2021-09-03T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:42:42","slug":"central-washington-downs-eastern-new-mexico-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Central Washington downs Eastern New Mexico in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b210df9ce828c22eb63df9a34f1dcad0\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><em>ENMU Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PORTALES, N.M. &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The Eastern New Mexico football team fell 66-24 to Central Washington University in the 2021 season opener on Thursday night in Greyhound Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Washington jumped out to an early 21-7 lead by the end of the first quarter and never looked back on the way to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlight of the night for the Greyhounds came from\u00a0<dfn>Justin Manyweather<\/dfn>, who had a 95-yard pass reception from\u00a0<dfn>Nathan Valencia<\/dfn> for a touchdown in the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the Wildcats, quarterback JJ Lemming, threw for 322 yards and four touchdowns and ran one into the end zone himself throughout the contest.ENMU&#8217;s Valencia finished the game with 183 passing yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manyweather paced all receivers in the game with 144 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><dfn>Aseli Finau<\/dfn>\u00a0was credited with a sack in the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On defense for the Hounds,\u00a0<dfn>Cameron Santa Cruz<\/dfn>\u00a0had a team-high eight tackles, while\u00a0<dfn>Camron Pitcher Jr.<\/dfn>\u00a0was close behind with seven. Those were career highs for both defensive backs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><dfn>Cooper Hamilton<\/dfn>\u00a0was 3-for-3 on extra point kicks and also had a 39-yard field goal.Tonight&#8217;s contest was the first in program history between the Wildcats and Greyhounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s game was the first for ENMU in more than 600 days, dating back to the end of the 2019 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manyweather&#8217;s 95-yard pass reception is the second longest in program history. The longest was a 97-yard reception by Michael Matthew against Angelo State University on October 1, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greyhounds will look to bounce back next week when they host Adams State University on Saturday, September 11 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENMU Athletics PORTALES, N.M. &#8211;\u00a0The Eastern New Mexico football team fell 66-24 to Central Washington University in the 2021 season opener on Thursday night in Greyhound<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,460,11,23],"tags":[465,37],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-division-ii","category-eastern-new-mexico","category-football","category-top-news","tag-eastern-new-mexico","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmexicosports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}