{"id":272740,"date":"2018-03-27T06:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272740"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:02:26","slug":"contrasting-wins-comets-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/contrasting-wins-comets-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting wins for Comets, Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272742\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Little-Leaguepx.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcons base runner, left, prepares to sprint to second, while Braves first baseman Isidro Cabrera waits for a possible throw from their pitcher during the Junior League division game in the 2018 Saipan Little League Baseball last Friday at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Comets I and Falcons won in contrasting fashion in the Junior division games in the 2018 Saipan Little League Baseball last Friday at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n<p>Comets I romped to a 20-5 decision over Comets II, while the Falcons squeezed out a 6-3 victory against the NSA Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Sneak Sumor pitched for five innings with no earned runs, giving up two hits\u2014a single to R.J. Muna in the third and a double to Jason Reyes in the fifth. He walked seven and struck out three.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Aizon closed out for Comets I, allowing a single to Alvin Hocog, after Corney Izkawa got on base and scored on errors. Hocog, however, was out at home on a Jesus Sablan fielder\u2019s choice for the first out.<\/p>\n<p>Comets I turned to its defense again with Sablan caught out while trying to reach third base and the game ended when Justin Monkeya caught a Deven Sablan infield fly.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Agulto went 3-for-3 with a double and three runs, while J.P. Castro scored three times and had an RBI double after going 2-for-2. Aizon and Bing Nakamura each batted 2-for-4 with the former having two RBI triples and the latter reaching home plate three times. Aizon scored one run, while Nakamura drove in Sumor, who had a triple, with a triple of his own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falcons 6, Braves 3<\/strong><br \/>\nJoel Gildilak pitched a complete game to help the Falcons get past the Braves. He gave up no earned runs on five hits with five strikeouts and five walks.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Cabrera, with one out, had an RBI triple in the second inning to bring in Lucio Aldan, who walked and reached home on a passed ball.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons scored their three other runs off the Braves\u2019 errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comets I and Falcons won in contrasting fashion in the Junior division games in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":272742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20571,16900,20572,278],"class_list":["post-272740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-corney-izkawa","tag-joel-gildilak","tag-nate-aizon","tag-rbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272740","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=272740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}