{"id":13701,"date":"2011-10-06T01:26:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=13701"},"modified":"2011-10-06T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:26:48","slug":"lady-geckos-take-opener-over-lady-ayuyus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lady-geckos-take-opener-over-lady-ayuyus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Geckos take opener over Lady Ayuyus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns113204.jpg\" alt=\"Saipan International School's Amber Roberts cashes in on a fast break layup against Kagman High School in Tuesday's MISO Girls High School Basketball season opener at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"56\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0The Lady Geckos of Saipan International School started their Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization girls high school basketball season with a 40-31 victory over the Kagman High School Lady Ayuyus on Tuesday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Roberts paced SIS with eight points in the opening 10 minutes to help her team build an early 13-9 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts then added eight more in the second period to single-handedly put SIS ahead, 21-17, at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>KHS&#8217; Elilai Pialug mustered seven points for the Lady Ayuyus in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Pialug led a rally with six points in the third quarter to put the Lady Ayuyus in front by a bucket, 27-25, heading into the fourth and final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>SIS&#8217; shooters went cold after the break and were limited to just four points in the period.<\/p>\n<p>SIS&#8217; Zoe Jewell then found her rhythm in the clutch with eight markers to go with Roberts&#8217; six points as SIS ran away with it in the end.<\/p>\n<p>SIS&#8217; defense stuffed KHS to just a pair of baskets in the final period.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts led the field with 22 points, while KHS&#8217; Pialug managed 13 markers in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The season continues tonight at the MHS Gym at 4:30pm with MHS hosting Saipan Southern High School in a junior varsity duel, followed by the varsity pairing at 5:30pm.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSIS 40<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Roberts 22, Jewell 12, Bracken 2, Frink 1, Huokino 1.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nKHS 31<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Pialug 13, Dela Cruz 6, Ada 4, Jetley 4, Rasa 4<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nScoring by quarters:<\/strong>\u00a013-9, 21-17, 25-27, 40-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0The Lady Geckos of Saipan International School started their Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}