{"id":286049,"date":"2018-10-05T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=286049"},"modified":"2018-10-05T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:00:55","slug":"easy-victories-for-pegs-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/easy-victories-for-pegs-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy victories for PEGS, PIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_286050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286050\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/emonpix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Islands Club Saipan\u2019s Sean Rabasto goes up for an uncontested layup during the second quarter of their game against Islander Rent A Car in the IT&amp;E Emon Lodge caging last Monday at the Koblerville Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pacific Islands Club Saipan and PEGS cruised past their respective foes in the<\/p>\n<p>IT&amp;E Emon Masonic Lodge No. 179 Mixed Masters Brotherhood Basketball League last Wednesday at the Koblerville Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>PIC Saipan notched its second win in three games after routing Cellular Pro in the first game, 98-78, while PEGS also get victory No. 2 following an 84-69 triumph over Pacific Postal Plus in the nightcap. Both PEGS and PIC Saipan managed to post a double-digit winning margin after breaking away in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Up by only 5 points at the break, 50-45, PIC Saipan built a 80-68 advantage at the start of the third canto, thanks to the 13 points of Paulo Rafols and the combined contribution of Sean Rabasto, James Abuy, and Jerome Norita.<\/p>\n<p>Rafols then made PIC\u2019s first 3 markers in the final canto, while his teammates Butch Sublemente and Rommel Bartolo finished off Cellular Pro. Sublemente scored 7 straight points after Rafols had his and-1 play, while Bartolo also hit baskets in streaks, registering 6 markers.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Cellular Pro leaned heavily on Prince Factor, who recorded 22 points and these were not enough to put the team on the win column  after three tries.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, PEGS made it two in a row, as it pulled away from Pacific Postal Plus in the penultimate frame.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead by only 8 after the first half, 41-33, Ron Gamboa and Dennis Geron teamed up for 20 of their 26 points in the third period, which ended with PEGS on top by 16, 67-51. Geron scored 9 points in that surge with all his baskets coming from the 3-point area, while Gamboa drilled 11, including the 7 straight to wrap up the pivotal quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Geron was still at it in the final canto, adding 12 points, while the rest of his teammates also stepped up to complete the rout.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it was Kensington Hotel that won last Monday\u2019s first game not Armatech as earlier reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Islands Club Saipan and PEGS cruised past their respective foes in the IT&amp;E Emon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":286050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22796,22214,22774,22419],"class_list":["post-286049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cellular-pro","tag-koblerville-gymnasium","tag-pacific-postal-plus","tag-pegs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286049","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=286049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}