{"id":248035,"date":"2017-03-10T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=248035"},"modified":"2017-03-10T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:04:46","slug":"agape-sets-finals-rematch-vs-mcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/agape-sets-finals-rematch-vs-mcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Agape sets finals rematch vs MCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248040\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCOPSA-pix-3-179x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agape Christian School\u2019s Feng Tianen, right, is fouled by Saipan Community School\u2019s Miku Torres during the fourth quarter of their semis game in the private school caging yesterday at the Agape court in Middle Road. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Agape Christian School took the second and last finals berth in the 2016-2017 Commonwealth Coalition of Private School Association Basketball League after dominating Saipan Community School in their playoff game yesterday, 43-14, at the ACS court in Middle Road.<\/p>\n<p>The easy win over SCS allowed Agape to arrange a finals rematch with defending champion Mt. Carmel School on Monday. The Torchbearers-Knights\u2019 winner-take-all finale will be played at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium after the girls title game between MCS and Seventh Day Adventist. The girls championship game is set for 3:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back in the finals and get another shot at Mt. Carmel,\u201d Agape coach Noel Puno said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a very tough game this Monday as we know MCS is so far undefeated in the tournament and they have a lot of players with good skills. If we could neutralize their guards and limit their shooters, I think we have a good chance. Our big men also have to do their job in the paint to give Mt. Carmel a nice game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights pulled off a 40-38 win over Puno\u2019s Torchbearers in last season\u2019s finale, working their back from an 18-point deficit in the first half, 10-28. Puno still remembers that sorry loss and he hopes to return the favor to Mt. Carmel next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were unbeaten, too going into the finals and then we lost a big lead and eventually the game. Hopefully, we learned our lessons from that defeat and one of our motivation for this year\u2019s finals is to redeem ourselves from that heartbreaker,\u201d Puno said.<\/p>\n<p>Puno and his Torchbearers moved one step away from redemption after routing SCS in their Final Four showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Agape held SCS scoreless in the first and third quarters to set up the 29-point win. <\/p>\n<p>On offense, brothers Tychicus and Silas Xu again had impressive games as they combined for 22 points in the Torchbearers\u2019 semis win. The siblings totaled 30 in Agape\u2019s 55-26 win over Grace Christian Academy in the quarterfinals. Yang Chengxuan added 10 markers for another double-digit scoring as he had 17 in their lopsided victory against the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Agape 43 \u2013 T. Xu 14, Chenxuan 10, S. Xu 8,  Heng 7, Wenhao 2, Tianen 2.<\/p>\n<p>SCS 14 \u2013 Torres 4, Sablan 4, Guerrero 2, Aguon 2.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring by quarters: 8-0, 14-8, 29-8, 43-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agape Christian School took the second and last finals berth in the 2016-2017 Commonwealth Coalition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":248040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1181,1306,5987,1034],"class_list":["post-248035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mcs","tag-middle-road","tag-saipan-community-school","tag-scs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248035","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=248035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}