{"id":208239,"date":"2015-07-23T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T06:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=208239"},"modified":"2015-07-23T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T06:07:15","slug":"arceo-is-mbt-top-scorer-but-guam-has-4-players-on-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/arceo-is-mbt-top-scorer-but-guam-has-4-players-on-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Arceo is MBT top scorer; but Guam has 4 players on list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Dolphins\u2019 Christian Arceo was the top scorer in the recently concluded 2015 Micronesian Basketball Tournament U15 to lead two of his teammates on the Top 10 list.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208242\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"208242\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Scoring-pix.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Scoring-pix.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The Marianas Dolphins\u2019 Christian Arceo (10) in action in their opening game against Team Palau in the 2015 Micronesian Basketball Tournament U15 last July 12 at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"410\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-208242\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marianas Dolphins\u2019 Christian Arceo (10) in action in their opening game against Team Palau in the 2015 Micronesian Basketball Tournament U15 last July 12 at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eventual champion Guam had four players entering the list to showcase their dominance while Palau, another visiting team, occupied three more.<\/p>\n<p>Arceo collected a total of 70 points in the four games he played in the elimination round to finish with a 17.5 average. He highlighted that performance with a 24-point output in the Dolphins\u2019 103-47 crushing of the Marianas Tataga last July 14.<\/p>\n<p>Palau\u2019s shifty forwards M.J. Baysa and Wallace Worswick came in tied for second to third each averaging 15.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Worswick also scored the most points in the tournament when he erupted for 31 markers in Palau\u2019s 108-60 demolition of the Marianas Alu\u2019u in their battle for third last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Ganac, Palau\u2019s crafty playmaker, was next on the list behind his teammates with a 13.3 average followed by two Guam players.<\/p>\n<p>Guam big man DeAndre Cruz was fifth on the list with 12.8 points a game with Napu San Luis a close sixth with a 12.5 scoring average.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton Dancoe was seventh on the list with 12.0 with Guam guards Michael Min and Gabriel Simon occupying the eighth and ninth spots with averages of 11.3 and 10.3 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins\u2019 Jun Alipio completed the Top 10 list with a 9.5 points per outing average.<\/p>\n<p>Arceo and Worswick also led the Mythical Team Selection list and were joined by Guam\u2019s Aishea Grape, Bud Jason Norita of the Alu\u2019u and Matthew Richardson of the Tataga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Dolphins\u2019 Christian Arceo was the top scorer in the recently concluded 2015 Micronesian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":208242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,2009,6147,6076],"class_list":["post-208239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-guam","tag-mbt","tag-omar-ganac","tag-team-palau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208239","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}