{"id":264046,"date":"2017-11-08T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264046"},"modified":"2017-11-08T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:00:53","slug":"bbb-takes-fourth-playoff-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bbb-takes-fourth-playoff-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"BBB takes fourth playoff seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264051\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/bluehauspix-3.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batang Bear Brand\u2019s Hal Spott, left, wrestles the ball with a Tropang Ridhors player during an earlier game in the Ali\u2019i Blue Haus caging at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium. Spott scored 21 points in their 74-63 win over Team Sawi last Sunday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Batang Bear Brand earned a playoff berth in the 2nd Ali\u2019i Blue Haus Invitational Basketball League after outclassing Team Sawi, 74-63, last Sunday at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>BBB\u2019s game improved as the game progressed to post the 11-point win over Team Sawi and join Silencer (8-2), Black Mamba (7-2), and Tropang Ridhors (7-4) to the eight-team playoff round. BBB now has a 6-2 record, while Team Sawi fell to a 4-4 card and must win at least two of its last three games to make the cut for the next phase of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Team Sawi is at the No. 8 spot, ahead of Empe Light (3-6), Gold Ballers (2-6), Vendetta (1-6), and Green Archers (0-9) and behind Green Minded (5-4), Spigen (5-4), and White Haus (5-3).<\/p>\n<p>Hal Spott, Elmer Esdrelon, and Ronnel Gamboa combined for more than half of BBB\u2019s total output to hand their squad its sixth win. Spott used his heft and height to cherry pick in the paint and score a team-high 21 points. Esdrelon and Gamboa contributed 18 and 15, respectively, to offset the 26 markers of Team Sawi\u2019s Errol Peredo.<\/p>\n<p>Peredo, Jerome Director, and J.R. Concepcion kept Team Sawi in the game in the first quarter, which ended in a deadlock, 16-all. Spott and Esdrelon totaled for 13 points in the opening canto.<\/p>\n<p>Spott then found a new partner in Gamboa in the second quarter, as the latter tallied 8 points, just one more than the former\u2019s output to put BBB on top, 40-34.<br \/>\nBBB never relinquished the lead from thereon, with Spott, Esdrelon, and  Gamboa working together in the second half to counter Peredo\u2019s multiple baskets for Team Sawi.<\/p>\n<p>BBB 74\u2014 Spott 21, Esdrelon 18, Gamboa 15, Che 6, Ariar 4, Devero 3, Achas 2.<br \/>\nTeam Sawi 63 \u2014 Peredo 26, Talania 14, Seralde 10, Concepcion 7, Galulu 4, Buenabajo 2.<br \/>\nScoring by quarters: 16-16, 40-34, 57-53, 74-63.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batang Bear Brand earned a playoff berth in the 2nd Ali\u2019i Blue Haus Invitational Basketball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":264051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6728,18481,18382,18539],"class_list":["post-264046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bbb","tag-gold-ballers","tag-team-sawi","tag-tropang-ridhors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046","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=264046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}