{"id":15002,"date":"2011-10-11T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:42:00","slug":"sshs-junior-varsity-defeat-mhs-in-girls-caging-21-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sshs-junior-varsity-defeat-mhs-in-girls-caging-21-12\/","title":{"rendered":"SSHS junior varsity defeat MHS in girls caging, 21-12,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Saipan Southern High School Lady Manta Rays junior varsity squad started its Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization basketball season with a 21-12 victory over the Marianas High School Lady Dolphins last Thursday at the MHS Gym.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Rays held MHS scoreless in the opening 10 minutes and built an early 8-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams came out with only a basket in the second quarter as the count shifted to 10-2 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Czarina Lizama led SSHS with six points in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Rays kept their defensive game plan after the break and shut out the Dolphins again in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS&#8217; Merlene Rekesiwang delivered four points in the third quarter to give her team a promising 14-2 advantage, heading into the final period.<\/p>\n<p>MHS nailed a couple of treys in a late rally attempt, but could not climb out of the hole.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS&#8217; Lizama and Vanessa Bartolo led all scorers with six points apiece, while MHS&#8217; Marlene Lumabi turned in a handful in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The season continues on Thursday with SSHS taking on Kagman High School. The junior varsity game is set for 4:30pm, followed by the varsity pairing at 5:30pm.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSSHS 21<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Bartolo 6, Lizama 6, Rekesiwang 4, Franciso 3, Lloren 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MHS 12<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Lumabi 5, Farro 4, Echavez 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong>\u00a08-0, 10-2, 14-2, 21-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter The Saipan Southern High School Lady Manta Rays junior varsity&#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-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","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=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}