{"id":233567,"date":"2016-08-03T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233567"},"modified":"2016-08-03T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:00:15","slug":"kanoa-resort-nears-regular-season-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kanoa-resort-nears-regular-season-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanoa Resort nears regular season sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233573\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tanholdingspix-194x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kanoa Resort\u2019s Douglas Schmidt scoops up a shot against POI\u2019s Jesse Santos, right, during an earlier game in the Tan Holdings caging at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kanoa Resort moved one win away from sweeping the regular season of the 2016 Tan Holdings Inter-Company Basketball League following an 89-59 demolition of Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan last Friday at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Kanoa now has a 9-0 record and will close out its campaign in the two-round robin elimination this Friday when it faces Shirley\u2019s Coffee Shop. Fiesta fell to a 6-3 mark, but remains in second place behind the unbeaten Kanoa.<\/p>\n<p>The battle between the Top 2 teams in the six-squad field ended in another lopsided win for Kanoa as the trio of Douglas Schmidt and Matt and Ernest Duenas joined forces anew to lift the league leader to a bigger winning margin than their first against the same team. Kanoa won by 15 against Fiesta in their first meeting last month, 64-49.<\/p>\n<p>Matt top-scored in Kanoa\u2019s first victory over Fiesta, making 21 points and although he did not led his team\u2019s offense in their second win, the burly forward still had 20-plus output last Friday, tallying 24. Schmidt paced Kanoa in their rout of Fiesta, firing 28, 7 more than his production in their first win, while Duenas had 11, just one marker short of his output over the same team last month.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt and Matt outgunned the entire Fiesta crew in the first half alone to hand Kanoa a promising 44-27 advantage. Schmidt finished the opening 20 minutes of play with 15 points, while Matt chipped in 13. <\/p>\n<p>Kanoa\u2019s 1-2 punch on offense were still at it in the second half to widen the gap, while their teammates also found their targets to give Fiesta a beating.<\/p>\n<p>Arjay Nonato had 16 points to lead Fiesta\u2019s losing cause, while Jarett Matsutaro contributed 14. Fiesta\u2019s main man Elmer Esdrelon was held to 6 points.<\/p>\n<p>Kanoa 89 \u2014 Schmidt 28, M. Duenas 24, E. Duenas 11, Sacramento 8, Pablo 7, Usi 3, Agulto 3, Bustillo 2, Rabauliman 2.<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta 59 \u2014 Nonato 16, Matsutaro 14, Maratita 7, Esdrelon 6, Macoto 6, Quizon 5, Villamena 4.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring by halves: 44-27, 89-59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanoa Resort moved one win away from sweeping the regular season of the 2016 Tan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":233573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12771,1436,9156,11966],"class_list":["post-233567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-douglas-schmidt","tag-gillette-multipurpose-gymnasium","tag-jarett-matsutaro","tag-poi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233567","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}