{"id":271590,"date":"2018-03-09T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=271590"},"modified":"2018-03-09T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:00:49","slug":"islander-pounds-8th-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/islander-pounds-8th-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Islander pounds 8th Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_271618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271618\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/basketpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Islander players stay close on defense against 8th Division\u2019s Alex Lauron during the first quarter of their game in the 2018 Civic Center Inter-color Basketball League last Saturday at the Civic Center court. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Islander whipped 8th Division, 76-56, in the first game in the 2018 Civic Center Inter-color Basketball League last Saturday at the Civic Center court.<\/p>\n<p>Islander used a 25-7 scoring surge in the third quarter to set up the 20-point winning margin.<\/p>\n<p>Before pulling away in the pivotal third period, Islander was ahead by only 5 points at the break, 35-30. Jaymark De Guzman then led Islander\u2019s attack at the start of the second half after scoring 8 points, while Sean Rabasto contributed 6. Jack Aranda and Mike Santos chipped in two field goals apiece to hand Islander a 60-37 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Only two players scored for 8th Division in the third-quarter meltdown with John Jugos making 5 markers and Bry Bernardo adding a field goal. 8th Division never recovered after that, as Islander continued to run a balance offense to keep the big lead.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, three more games were played over the weekend with Saipan Vegas, Alamo RAC, and Budotz prevailing against their respective opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Budotz walloped Pinatubo, 73-56;  Alamo routed Batang, 61-41; and Saipan Vegas topped Thunder, 66-53.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo Fernando paced Saipan Vegas with his 16 points, while Dennis Cortez and Randy Mungcal also finished in twin digits with 13 and 10, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Fernando registered 8 of his total points in the first quarter to lift Saipan Vegas to a 23-7 lead. The rest of his teammates took over in the last three periods en route to their easy win.<\/p>\n<p>In the Budotz-Pinatubo match, the former saved the best for last to earn a 17-point win.<\/p>\n<p>Down by one at the end of the third quarter, 46-47, Budotz tripled Pinatubo\u2019s output in the final canto, 27-9.  Raymond Velasco had 7 points in the payoff frame and he drew enough help from his teammates, as three of them made at least two field goals each.<\/p>\n<p>In the final game last Sunday, Alamo scored 19 points against only 6 for Batang to turn a 28-19 halftime lead to a 47-25 advantage. Carl Aldan had 6 points in that third-quarter run to finish with a team-high 15 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islander whipped 8th Division, 76-56, in the first game in the 2018 Civic Center Inter-color&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":271618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7252,4788,7802,20040],"class_list":["post-271590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carl-aldan","tag-jack-aranda","tag-raymond-velasco","tag-saipan-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271590","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=271590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}