{"id":14778,"date":"2011-10-08T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2011-10-08T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T08:11:02","slug":"mhs-routs-sshs-81-27-in-girls-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mhs-routs-sshs-81-27-in-girls-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS routs SSHS, 81-27, in girls basketball"},"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\/issx9999ns113273.jpg\" alt=\"MHS Lady Dolphins' Rachel Abram gladly provides service with a smile from the post in Thursday's MISO girls basketball matchup against SSHS Lady Manta Rays held at the MHS Gym. (Walter Cepeda Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0The Marianas High School Lady Dolphins kicked off its season with an 81-27 demolition job of the Saipan Southern High School Lady Manta Rays as the 2011 Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization girls basketball season continued Thursday at the MHS Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions had five returning players on its roster, and the one-sided victory makes it apparent that the Lady Dolphins have hit the ground running this year.<\/p>\n<p>Glory Williams paced MHS with seven points in the opening 10 minutes as the Lady Dolphins shot out to an early 29-7 lead.<\/p>\n<p>MHS kept applying pressure in the second period and shut out Lady Rays offensively.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Dolphins amassed a mammoth 54-7 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS struggled with ball protection and was out-hustled for rebounds under the basket. Meanwhile on the other end, MHS&#8217; Jeraldine Castillo led the charge with nine points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>MHS continued to pass the ball around at will in the third quarter, and it was Rachel Abrams&#8217; turn to carry the torch; she delivered a 3-pointer for seven points in the period.<\/p>\n<p>MHS was way out in front, 72-11, heading into the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>MHS called off the dogs in the fourth period, enabling SSHS&#8217; Roxanne Duenas to sink a couple of treys for 12 points in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, despite being overwhelmed by a veteran MHS team, the Lady Rays never lost their spirit and played all out until the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo and Abrams led MHS with 15 points apiece, while Duenas managed 14 on the short end for SSHS.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the junior varsity matchup will be released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MHS 81<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Castillo 15, Abrams 15, Williams 12, Alegre 10, Gozon 9, Rangamar 6, Mendoza 4, Johnson 4, Badalles 2, Francisco 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SSHS 27<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Duenas 14, Joseph 9, Malasarte 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong>\u00a029-7, 54-0, 72-11, 81-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0The Marianas High School Lady Dolphins kicked off its season&#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-14778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778","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=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}