{"id":292682,"date":"2019-01-28T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=292682"},"modified":"2019-01-28T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:02:18","slug":"sis-hands-gca-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hands-gca-first-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS hands GCA first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_292684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292684\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/copsapix-5.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy\u2019s Jasmine Phan leaps for a spike during their game against Saipan International School 1 in the CCOPSA volleyball league last Thursday at the latter\u2019s court in As Lito. (Roby N. Pamintuan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan International School halted Grace Christian Academy\u2019s streak in the boys division of the 2018-2019 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League last Thursday at the Geckos\u2019 court in As Lito.<\/p>\n<p>SIS came out on top of the neck-and-neck game, 25-23, 25-22, to hand the Eagles their first loss of the season after going 4-0. Besides putting a blemish on GCA\u2019s record, the Geckos also snapped their two-game losing skid to improve to a 3-2 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, earlier in the girls division game, the Lady Eagles earned a come-from-behind victory over the Lady Geckos, 25-22, 26-24. After securing the close win, GCA maintained its league best 8-1 record, while SIS 1 took their second loss in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Phan broke the 24-24 standoff in the second set after landing a clean spike and then delivered the killer blow for the Lady Eagles from the server\u2019s area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt very relieving to close out the game,\u201d Phan shared. \u201cI just kept in mind what soach C (Cesar Libut)always says \u2018play how you always play.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the final set featured seven deadlocks, while GCA faced a 3-6 deficit in the early stages. The Lady Eagles and Lady Geckos went back and fourth as they were too familiar with each other\u2019s offensive strengths and tendencies. However, in the end Clerisse Dacumos stepped up for GCA, as she mixed in unexpected tips with setting up jobs for Anna Nunez, Karina Dilse, and Phan.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening set, Nunez hit the clinching serve to complete the comeback win. GCA was lethargic to start the game off, allowing the Lady Geckos to jump out of the gates with a 6-2 lead. After the reeling, the Lady Eagles tightened loose ends up on the defensive side, while Phan delivered back-to-back serves to claim their first lead in the game, 8-7. Then with GCA hanging on to a 20-19 lead, Miku Kimura lobbed three consecutive underhand serves to push her team\u2019s advantage to 22-19. The Lady Eagles hung on tight with Kimura and Nunez scoring the needed points to close out the set.<\/p>\n<p>GCA had to work harder in both sets, as SIS 1\u2019s frontline weapons\u2014Sally Lai, Malika Miyawaki, and Maury Zon Tybaco\u2014proved to be constant threats to the Lady Eagles\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School halted Grace Christian Academy\u2019s streak in the boys division of the 2018-2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":292684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[698,699],"class_list":["post-292682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gca","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292682","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}