{"id":15255,"date":"2011-10-14T02:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15255"},"modified":"2011-10-14T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:24:04","slug":"dys-rollers-win-u19-consolation-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dys-rollers-win-u19-consolation-game-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DYS Rollers win U19 consolation game"},"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\/issx9999ns113428.jpg\" alt=\"DYS Rollers' Erick Dela Rosa gets some hang time for a good look at the basket in their U19 Rotary caging consolation game against CK Blazers Wednesday at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium of the TSL Sports Complex. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"98\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Rollers Basketball Club&#8217;s DYS Rollers mounted a second half comeback to steal the Saipan Rotary Club Youth Basketball U19 consolation match, 50-45, over the Chalan Kanoa Blazers on Wednesday at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium of the TSL Sports Complex in Gualo Rai.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers got to work early and built a 15-8 lead in the opening eight minutes thanks to eight points by Patrick Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Torres added six more points in the second quarter as both teams went back and fourth. The count shifted to 28-21 in favor of the Blazers at halftime. DYS&#8217; David Diaz and Daryl Suarez pumped in six markers apiece in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>DYS regrouped after the break and Ralph Francisco caught fire with an eight-point tear to start the third quarter. His teammate Erick Dela Rosa came off the bench and delivered six more in support to pull DYS within a basket, 35-37, heading into crunch time.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the final period, the Blazers front man Brandon Aulerio was held to just seven points in the first three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>While DYS&#8217; defensive strategy held strong late in the match, John Darag sunk a trio of clutch 3-pointers in the last quarter to shoot his team ahead in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Although coming up a bit short in the match, Blazers&#8217; Torres did his best to fill the void and finished with a game-high 18 points, while Francisco led DYS with 15.<\/p>\n<p>The championship pairing between the top-ranked Sonics and RBC&#8217;s Fast 12 tips off in Gualo Rai tonight at 5:30pm followed by the U19 awards ceremony<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the U15 season continues in Gualo Rai at 11am tomorrow with U12&#8217;s Micronesian Brokers, Inc. taking on Kunoichi. Then at 12:30pm, RBC&#8217;s U12 Angels square off against sister team Ol&#8217;Aces and the Party Rockers clash with NMC Proa at 2pm; these matches were originally set last Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DYS Rollers 50<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Francisco 15, Dela Rosa 10, Darag 9, Diaz 6, Suarez 6, Kwon 4.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCK Blazers 45<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Torres 18, Aulerio 10, Sablan 9, Eughbanks 5, Ray 2, Kaipat 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong>\u00a08-15, 21-28, 35-37, 50-45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Rollers Basketball Club&#8217;s DYS Rollers mounted a second half comeback&#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-15255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255","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=15255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}