{"id":32309,"date":"2015-02-12T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=32309"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:10:38","slug":"badger-pride-roars-on-red-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/02\/badger-pride-roars-on-red-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Badger Pride roars on Red Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/reddayhoops.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32312\" title=\"reddayhoops\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/reddayhoops.jpg\" alt=\"reddayhoops\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red Day at Brock turned out to be quite the celebration around campus, and for three of the Badgers Varsity Sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>Students, staff and faculty displayed what Badger Pride is truly all about packing the Bob Davis Gymnasium and leading the Badgers to victory in both women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s basketball action, and cheering on the Brock men&#8217;s hockey team to victory at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/y-3FcxIsWV\/\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/y-3FcxIsWV\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brock women used an incredible fourth quarter comeback to <a href=\"http:\/\/gobadgers.ca\/news\/2015\/2\/11\/WBB_0211151539.aspx?path=wbball\">beat<\/a> the Guelph Gryphons in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers trailed by 15 points with 7:33 left in regulation only to tie the game at 72, before prevailing 78-75 in OT.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the Brock men also came up big in another must-win situation to keep its playoff hopes alive with a 62-55 <a href=\"http:\/\/gobadgers.ca\/news\/2015\/2\/11\/MBB_0211151600.aspx?path=mbball\">victory<\/a> over the Gryphons.<\/p>\n<p>Down the 406, the Brock men&#8217;s hockey team opened its <a href=\"http:\/\/gobadgers.ca\/news\/2015\/2\/11\/MHOCKEY_0211150653.aspx?path=mhockey\">playoffs<\/a> knocking off the top-ranked Windsor Lancers 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Badgers social media was abuzz after the three straight Brock victories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>It&#8217;s a great day to be a badger ???????? three games and three wins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/badgerpride?src=hash\">#badgerpride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/brocku?src=hash\">#brocku<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/protecttheden?src=hash\">#protecttheden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kira Cornelissen (@kiracorn15) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiracorn15\/status\/565709302128979970\">February 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nHow many other CIS schools could fill a gym on a Wednesday night during midterm week? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProtectTheDen?src=hash\">#ProtectTheDen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThisIsOurHouse?src=hash\">#ThisIsOurHouse<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UBWQQY3m0Z\">pic.twitter.com\/UBWQQY3m0Z<\/a> \u2014 Jeremy Knight (@J_Knight94) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Knight94\/status\/565718328929685505\">February 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>&#8220;Adrian Volpe leads <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrockMensHockey\">@BrockMensHockey<\/a> to playoff win over top-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Windsor?src=hash\">#Windsor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0gmbCVTMhn\">http:\/\/t.co\/0gmbCVTMhn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OUA?src=hash\">#OUA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CIS?src=hash\">#CIS<\/a> Volpe is awesome!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MISE  (@mise35) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mise35\/status\/565725323309117443\">February 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nKudos to Brock for bringing massive group to the game in anticipation of us showing up. Good to know the word got out quick. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GryphonCrazies?src=hash\">#GryphonCrazies<\/a> \u2014 Gryphon Crazies  (@GryphonCrazies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GryphonCrazies\/status\/565771176547733504\">February 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To declare Wednesday as Red Day at Brock, and just over 24 hours later to see, hear and feel what Badger Pride is all about &#8211; thank you Brock students, staff and faculty,&#8221; said Brock Vice-President of Finance and Administration Brian Hutchings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Day at Brock turned out to be quite the celebration around campus, and for three of the Badgers Varsity Sports teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":32312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[350,533,255,3331,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32309"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32353,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309\/revisions\/32353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}