{"id":272144,"date":"2018-03-19T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272144"},"modified":"2018-03-19T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T20:00:35","slug":"kiss-ace-beats-watch-learn-rocball-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kiss-ace-beats-watch-learn-rocball-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss My Ace beats Watch &#038; Learn in Rocball finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272185\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rocballpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiss My Ace players pose with their championship trophy after beating Watch &amp; Learn in the 2018 Rocball League at the Marianas High School court last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The championship game in the 2018 Roball League between Watch &amp; Learn and Kiss My Ace took two days to complete.<\/p>\n<p>There were four sets played and KMA \u201cjuiced-out\u201d by the end of the fourth set, 65-45. In Rocball\u2019s set of rules, a team can win a game if it outscored its opponents after four sets of play and won the fourth set.<\/p>\n<p>KMA prevailed in the first set, 18-14. Watch &amp; Learn won the second set, 15-14. KMA was leading in game points, 32-29, after the second set. In the third set, Watch &amp; Learn had a hard time coordinating its plays. KMA, on the other hand, came out strong  and steady,  scoring a three point goal, making a two point backcourt play, and earning  two two-point ace to help them take set three, 15-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth set, KMA stumbled around with three penalty serves and was trailing Watch &amp; Learn, 9-11. Then Alexiana Tyquiengco smacked in two consecutive aces that put KMA back in the lead, 13-11. Watch &amp; Learn was able to tie the game at 13-all,  but couldn\u2019t score off its serve. KMA was scoring off Watch &amp; Learns serve, but couldn\u2019t close the set out because it had a hard time scoring off its own serves. Finally, Troy Ngirarois brought the game to its conclusion and gave KMA the title with an ace.<\/p>\n<p>In the heavy hitting category, where players score more than just one point per play, KMA and Watch &amp; Learn were evenly matched with 11 two-point aces each, one jammed serve each, and two two-point backcourt plays. However, KMA prevailed as it scored three three-point goals and Watch &amp; Learn failed to make a goal. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The championship game in the 2018 Roball League between Watch &amp; Learn and Kiss My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":272185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20395,1772,6330,20458],"class_list":["post-272144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-kma","tag-marianas-high-school","tag-troy-ngirarois","tag-watch-learns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272144","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}