{"id":260177,"date":"2017-09-13T06:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=260177"},"modified":"2017-09-13T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:02:42","slug":"v-god-ballers-bros-triumph-3x3-caging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/v-god-ballers-bros-triumph-3x3-caging\/","title":{"rendered":"V-God, Ballers Bros triumph in 3&#215;3 caging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_260199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260199\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mibfpix-5-252x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballers Bros\u2019 Khristian Itaas drives against two BoonkGang defenders during their title game in the boys U16 division of the Saipan leg of the 3&#215;3 Hoopfest Marianas 2017 last Saturday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>V-God and Ballers Bros took the championships in their respective divisions in the Saipan leg of the 3&#215;3 Hoopfest Marianas 2017 last Saturday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>V-God secured the boys U19 title after dominating Big B\u2019s in the finals, 21-14, while Ballers Bros clinched the boys U16 crown following a 13-9 triumph over BoonkGang.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Castro powered V-God to the championship victory after drilling a game-high 14 points. Dean Blake and Franco Bondoc joined the V-God point guard on the winning team with the former chipping in 4 markers and the latter adding 3. Bondoc scored V-God\u2019s first 3 points, while Castro took over, nailing the squad\u2019s next 9 markers. Blake also had a string of 3 points before Castro again stepped up and closed out for V-God.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Arceo paced Big B\u2019s with his 8 points, while Jelbert Quitugua and Aaron Ogumoro posted 4 and 2, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ogumoro\u2019s production in the title match was a far cry from his 11 markers in the semifinals where he lifted Big B\u2019s to a 21-14 win over Islanders. Angelo Factor helped Ogumoro in bringing Big B\u2019s to the championship game after adding 8 points, while Arceo finished with 2 markers.  Rafael Ordonio and Ronald Bernardo recorded 6 points apiece for the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>In the other semis pairing, V-God pulled off a close win against the Warriors, 14-12. Castro also played a key role in their Final Four victory, as he scored V-God\u2019s last 6 points to end up with a game-high 9 markers. Bondoc registered 3, while Blake made 2. Kekuni Kainoa had 6 points on a losing effort for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the boys U16 finals, Khristian Itaas posted 6 points in Ballers Bros\u2019 victory over BoonkGang.<\/p>\n<p>Itaas also drew enough support from teammates Anthony Lajara and Drew Bayot, who recorded 4 and 3 points, respectively, in the title game. <\/p>\n<p>Paulo Cadag had 5 points for the runner-up BoonkGang, while Christian Bravo added 3, and Adonis Favor logged a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V-God and Ballers Bros took the championships in their respective divisions in the Saipan leg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":260199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,18201,17192,18115],"class_list":["post-260177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ada-gymnasium","tag-ballers-bros","tag-christian-bravo","tag-hoopfest-marianas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260177","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=260177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}