{"id":19066,"date":"2011-09-27T01:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=19066"},"modified":"2011-09-27T01:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:43:57","slug":"cell-pro-enter-finals-opposite-mbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cell-pro-enter-finals-opposite-mbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Pro enter finals opposite MBI"},"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\/issx9999ns112950.jpg\" alt=\"Cell Pro's Roy Hernandez goes strong to the basket in Friday's Blue Haus Invitational Basketball League semifinal playoff against Sherwin Williams at the Garapan Basketball Court. (Walter Cepeda Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Cell Pro secured the second finals berth in the 2011 Blue Haus Invitational Basketball League after beating Sherwin Williams, 75-71, last Friday at the Garapan Basketball Court.<\/p>\n<p>The team made a statement after the tip and jumped out to a daunting 19-point lead, 26-7, after the opening 10 minutes. Roger Herrera spearheaded the surge with nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwin Williams&#8217; offense showed up in the second quarter, but they still trailed, 31-42, at halftime. Sherwin Williams gunner Dado Vistal scored eight points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwin Williams buckled down after the break and rallied its way back to within a basket, 53-55, heading into the final canto. Jun Tabora led Sherwin Williams&#8217; comeback with eight markers.<\/p>\n<p>Cell Pro&#8217;s Rocycl Ritual nailed two clutch treys in the fourth quarter to help put his team on top come the final buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Shorthanded in the game, Sherwin Williams dressed seven players in the match and ran out of steam in the final period.<\/p>\n<p>Cell Pro&#8217;s Herrera stepped up big and led all scorers with 27 points, while Sherwin Williams&#8217; Tabora managed 20 in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Cell Pro&#8217;s win forged a championship duel against early finalist MBI. The awards presentation will be held following the championship game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cell Pro 75<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Herrera 27, Ritual 17, Itaas 10, Hernandez 9, Tibayan 8, Rotap 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherwin Williams 71<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Tabora 20, Garon 14, Vistal 14, Tobias 12, Mallari 12, Dayrit 4, DL Guerrero 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring by quarters<\/strong>: 26-7, 42-31, 55-53, 75-71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Cell Pro secured the second finals berth in the 2011&#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-19066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066","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=19066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}