{"id":263850,"date":"2017-11-06T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263850"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:00:17","slug":"germance-collects-awards-belau-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/germance-collects-awards-belau-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Germance collects awards in Belau league"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_263852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263852\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Belaupix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karui\u2019s Taylor Germance, left, shows the four trophies he received during the awards ceremony for the 2017 Belau Men\u2019s Masters Softball League held yesterday at the Dandan Softball Field. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taylor Germance was named the regular season\u2019s most valuable player after claiming three individual awards in the 2017 Belau Men\u2019s Masters Softball League during yesterday\u2019s ceremony following the championship match between top seed Peleliu and No. 2 Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Germance blasted the most home runs with 19 to edge out Momma Charu\u2019s Jojo Attao, who ended up with 18. The Karui slugger then added the most runs scored (34) and the most RBIs (56) trophies under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>Attao had some consolation after being declared the league\u2019s batting champ with a .800 average for going 40-for-50\u2014way ahead of closest pursuer Bill Camacho of Brotherhood (.673). Joe Lizama of Brotherhood was third with a .649.<\/p>\n<p>Karui\u2019s Darwin Masaharu (.625), Germance (.618), Peleliu\u2019s Rush Kintaro (.611), Brotherhood\u2019s Jack D. Diaz (.604), Payton Sakuma (.587), S.A. Masters\u2019 Jude Dickinson (.575), and Steve Igisaiar (.571) completed the Top 10 batting leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Lefty Shiro had the most doubles with 12, while Nizer Masayos made the most triples in the regular season with eight.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Celis of the Papa Bears ruled the pitching department with a 5.41 ERA, followed by previous leader Leo Bobai of Momma Charu (5.75), Kinataro (6.46), John Cepeda of the S.A. Masters (7.19), and Ray Villagomez of Peleliu (7.44).<\/p>\n<p>Diaz of Brotherhood finished sixth with 7.94, while Lucian George of Karui was seventh with 8.80 and was followed by Tom Camacho of Sufa at eighth with 9.15 and the 9.65 of Asahi\u2019s Tosh Beltran. Igisaiar was 10th with 11.52. Iskawa was the strikeout king with 30, besting Bobai\u2019s 29, and the 28 of Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>In the team category, Peleliu was the pennant champ, while Team Asahi went home with the sportsmanship award, as the league recognized the latter for helping organizers in maintaining the field before and after the weekly matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Germance was named the regular season\u2019s most valuable player after claiming three individual awards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":263852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,18687,17989,18935],"class_list":["post-263850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ceremony","tag-masters-softball-league","tag-momma-charu","tag-taylor-germance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263850","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=263850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}