{"id":717,"date":"2026-09-19T05:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=lions-bounce-back-with-win-against-albany-friday"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:59","slug":"lions-bounce-back-with-win-against-albany-friday","status":"publish","type":"sjc_news","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=lions-bounce-back-with-win-against-albany-friday","title":{"rendered":"Lions bounce back with win against Albany Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SJC-Lions.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; The St. Joseph Christian Lions football team defeated Albany Friday night to win its second game of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lions defeated the Warriors, 54-14, in Grand River Conference action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SJC scored first to take a 6-0 lead, but Albany responded later in the first with a touchdown and a two-point conversion to take the lead, 8-6. The Lions marched down and scored on their next drive to retake the lead 12-8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SJC led by four at the end of the first, 12-8, and allowed just six points the rest of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lions&#8217; 54-14 victory moves them to 2-2 on the season. Albany falls to 2-2 on the year. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/news\/2026\/09\/19\/lions-bounce-back-with-win-against-albany-friday\/\">Lions bounce back with win against Albany Friday<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\">KQ2 | St. Joseph, Missouri News, Weather &amp; Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; The St. Joseph Christian Lions football team defeated Albany Friday night to win its second game of the season. The Lions defeated the Warriors, 54-14, in Grand River Conference action. SJC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":718,"template":"","class_list":["post-717","sjc_news","type-sjc_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}