{"id":15880,"date":"2011-10-20T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2011-10-20T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:39:09","slug":"duenas-leads-lady-rays-past-sis-geckos-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/duenas-leads-lady-rays-past-sis-geckos-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Duenas leads Lady Rays past SIS Geckos in OT"},"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\/issx9999ns113575.jpg\" alt=\"Saipan Southern High School's Roxanne Duenas scores the go-ahead basket in overtime of Tuesday's MISO girls basketball matchup against Saipan International School at the the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"72\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Roxanne Duenas sparked Saipan Southern High School to a 70-62 overtime victory against Saipan International School in the girls varsity division of the Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization basketball league last Tuesday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The win was the second in two games for the Lady Manta Rays, while the loss evened the Lady Geckos&#8217; record at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>SIS will look to bounce back against Kagman High School (0-1) as the season continues on Oct. 25, 4:30pm at the MHS Gym.<\/p>\n<p>Results of yesterday&#8217;s game between KHS and MHS will be published tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>SIS got right to work after the tip and managed a 13-9 lead in the opening 10 minutes. Amie Hutchins paced the Lady Geckos with seven points.<\/p>\n<p>SIS then trudged ahead, 30-15, at halftime as Amber Roberts and Zoe Jewell combined for 11 markers in the second quarter. Czarina Lizama led SSHS with eight points in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS&#8217; Daylinne Joseph nailed a pair of 3-pointers for eight points in the third quarter, but SIS stuck to its game plan and maintained a healthy 42-31 margin heading into the final period of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Duenas, however, had other plans and took over the game, leading SSHS to a 54-54 deadlock in the fourth quarter, forcing overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Duenas tallied 16 points to go with seven in support from Joseph in the payoff period that tilted momentum to the Lady Rays&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<p>SIS actually took an early six-point lead in the extra five minutes, but it was only a matter of time before SSHS worked the ball to Duenas and it did not take her very long to fill the void and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Duenas racked up 14 more points in overtime as SSHS kept it out of reach by the final buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Duenas blew up the scoreboard with a dazzling 32 points in 20 minutes, outscoring SIS&#8217; Hutchins by a dozen markers.<\/p>\n<p>SSHS 70 &#8211; Duenas 32, Joseph 17, Lizama 12, C. Bartolo 4, Galarse 3, V Bartolo 2, Maui 2, Santos 2.<\/p>\n<p>SIS 62 &#8211; Hutchins 20, Roberts 13, Jewell 12, Phala 8, Chun 5, Bracken 4.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring by quarters: 9-13, 15-30, 31-42, 54-54, 70-62 (OT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Roxanne Duenas sparked Saipan Southern High School to a 70-62&#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-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","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=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}