{"id":186741,"date":"2014-12-05T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=186741"},"modified":"2014-12-05T04:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:56","slug":"thunder-aims-bounce-back-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/thunder-aims-bounce-back-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder aims to bounce back against Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_186748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186748\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"186748\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cflpix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cflpix1.jpg\" alt=\"The Southern Thunder\u2019s Matthew Reyes, second left, tries to get past the Eastern Lightning\u2019s defense during the opening game in the Commonwealth Football League Association\u2019s 2014 Youth Football League last week. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186748\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern Thunder\u2019s Matthew Reyes, second left, tries to get past the Eastern Lightning\u2019s defense during the opening game in the Commonwealth Football League Association\u2019s 2014 Youth Football League last week. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Southern Thunder aims to bounce back from its opening game loss to the Eastern Lightning when it takes on the Northern Saints in the continuation of the Commonwealth Football League Association\u2019s 2014 Youth Football League season tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Game time is at 1pm at the CPA Airport Field with the Thunder hoping to put that defeat behind against last year\u2019s finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Southern dropped a 40-20 opening day decision against the Eastern Lightning last Saturday with the defending champions using their ground game behind Zander Tkel and quarterback Donavin Ada to top the former.<\/p>\n<p>Tkel and Ada combined for five rushing touchdowns, completing 360 of the Lightning\u2019s 456 total yards.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, the Thunder still showed good signs that it could be a title contender this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder even threatened to come back from an early double-digit spread as a Jeffrey Agulto fumble recovery resulted to a Matthew Reyes touchdown and moved the team within five, 19-14, in the opening minutes of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>N-Nes Siech scored the Thunder\u2019s first TD off a Norman Cabrera 33-yard pass, while Franko Bundoc made the 2-point conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera, Brent Azaren and Jaret Rosario completed 3 passes each for Southern, combining for 180 yards but the Thunder\u2019s running game was held by the Lightning defense to a total of 73 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p>Bundoc and Siech were also the bright spots for the Thunder as they combined for 136 receiving yards compared to the 34 of the defending champs\u2019 Kimo Angailen and Ryuta Onuki.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning held its ground and thwarted the Thunder\u2019s passing and running game to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>Tkel scored two more TDs, while Ada had  one for the Lightning in the second half.<strong> (Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Thunder aims to bounce back from its opening game loss to the Eastern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":186748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186741","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}