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\u00a0 The St. Michael’s Medical Response Angels sparked a four-run rally in the eighth inning to outlast IP&E-Shell Fielders, 7-5, in Thursday’s Saipan Major League matchup at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n\u00a0 The St. Michael’s Medical Response Angels sparked a four-run rally in the eighth inning to outlast IP&E-Shell Fielders, 7-5, in Thursday’s Saipan Major League matchup at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n
The win was St. Michael’s sixth in 10 tries, while IP&E-Shell dipped on a tilt with five wins and six losses.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, back on Wednesday, the Saipan Stevedore Co. Yankees maintained its hold on the top spot after nosing out Rep. Yumul D-9ers (0-9), 11-8. It was the eighth win in nine games for the Yankees.<\/p>\n
As for the rest of the field, the Tan Holdings Brewers (7-2) are in second place in front of the Aces (6-3), while the Rep. Sylvester Iguel Masters (1-8) are out of the running via forfeit rule.<\/p>\n
The season continues at the Tan Ko field on Monday at 6:30pm with the Aces taking on the Yankees.<\/p>\n
St. Michael’s 7, IP&E-Shell 5<\/strong><\/p>\n Angels’ T.J. Cruz busted a two-RBI single in the first inning, but the IP&E-Shell Fielders promptly answered with three runs in the bottom frame for a slim 3-2 edge out of the gate.<\/p>\n IP&E-Shell’s Wens Namelo drove in Anthony Tenorio and made it home off an error, while teammate Marvin Ngeskebei singled on and also scored off some extra chucks around the diamond.<\/p>\n Angels’ Nick Cruz later tied it at 3-all in the third inning with a base knock that scored T.J. Cruz, however IP&E-Shell capitalized on more defensive blunders in the fifth inning and went ahead, 5-3.<\/p>\n Three hits to start the inning enabled IP&E-Shell’s Joe Basa and Tenorio to cross the plate thanks to a costly infield error; notably, IP&E-Shell’s Elton Santos was relieved on the hump by Jimmy Brel in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n He did a good job keeping the rival squad at bay, but ended up being tapped after a leadoff walk in the eighth inning and was replaced by Brandon Santos, who was replaced by Shane Mendiola by the end of the frame.<\/p>\n Brandon Santos plunked two batters in a short stint on the mound.<\/p>\n Angels’ Marvin Kaipat delivered the game-tying single with one out and league batting champ John Reyes obliged with another two-RBI single to right field for the lead.<\/p>\n IP&E-Shell was stuffed in the bottom frame and ended the game with a man on third base.<\/p>\n Angels pitcher Manny Cabrera went all nine rounds and gave up just one earned run off nine hits and a walk with seven strikeouts. The walk came in the ninth inning and he canned seven put outs and 10 on the ground.<\/p>\n Saipan Stevedore Yankees 11, Rep. Yumul-D-9ers 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Saipan Stevedore Yankees established a 6-0 margin in the first two innings and held off a last-inning uprising to secure the win.<\/p>\n They bashed four hits, including a pair of RBI singles by Jon Salas and Greg Iskawa, for its first three runs and added another three in the second from a two-RBI triple by Ben Jones Jr. and an RBI base rip by David Camacho.<\/p>\n Yankees’ Chris Camacho drove home Salas for another run in the fourth inning before the D-9ers finally hit the board in the top of the fifth. D-9ers’ E.J. Tenorio doubled around B.J. Lizama, but the Yankees quickly countered with three runs in the bottom portion and pulled away, 10-1. Some errors complemented an RBI single by Jerome Delos Santos and a sacrifice fly by Iskawa.<\/p>\n Both teams traded runs in the seventh as D-9ers’ Andave Camacho singled in Ton Castro in the top half, and Angels’ Camacho scored Jones Jr.<\/p>\n The D-9ers mustered a run in the eighth and then managed a five-run gash in the ninth before the Angels put a lid on the match.<\/p>\n D-9ers bashed six hits at the end of regulation, including a two-RBI single by Castro, an RBI single from Camacho, a sacrifice fly by Lawrence Dikito, and an RBI base smash by Lizama.<\/p>\n Jones Jr. batted 3-for-5 with two RBIs, three runs, and three stolen bases. Salas went 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs.<\/p>\n By Walter J. Sutherland \u00a0 The St. Michael’s Medical Response Angels sparked a four-run rally in the eighth inning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[278,133,473],"class_list":["post-24615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-rbi","tag-run","tag-tan-ko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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