{"id":296864,"date":"2019-04-04T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=296864"},"modified":"2019-04-04T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:00:20","slug":"mjd-cruises-past-pacific-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mjd-cruises-past-pacific-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"MJD cruises past Pacific Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_296866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296866\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/emonpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-296866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MJD Warriors\u2019 Alex Ocampo pulls up for a short jumper during their game against Pacific Postal Plus in the Emon Lodge caging last Sunday at the Koblerville Gymnasium. (Roby N. Pamintuan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The MJD Warriors hammered Pacific Postal Plus, 73-52, in the 2018 Emon Lodge No. 179 Brotherhood\/IT&amp;E Basketball League last Sunday at the Koblerville Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors relied on the momentum they built in the second quarter to set up the easy win.<\/p>\n<p>MJD was on top by only 6 after the first period, 15-9, when it started pulling away in the second behind the 9 points of Alex Ocampo. Ben Lisua added 5 markers to lift MJD to a 37-22 halftime lead.  <\/p>\n<p>After the break, Jonathan Brocano and Gener Pineda stepped up for Pacific Postal to help cut the deficit to single digit, 40-49. Brocano did his damage in the paint and scored 8 points, while Pineda nailed two 3-pointers in a bid to bring Pacific Postal back in the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pacific Postal failed to complete the comeback in the fourth quarter, as MJD regained its shooting touch and scored 20-plus points to cruise to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Cellular Pro 69, Armatech 65<\/p>\n<p>In the first game last weekend, Cellular Pro got off to a good start en route to downing Armatech.<\/p>\n<p>Cell Pro\u2019s snipers found their targets early, as Gio Dancel, Jun Santos, and Sonny Ebuen combined for four treys. Ebuen posted 7 points, Santos sunk two triples, and Dancel chipped in  5 to give Cell Pro a 20-11 lead at the end of the first quarter. Although Armatech came within striking distance in the last three periods, Cell Pro hung on for the 4-point win.<\/p>\n<p>Ebuen led Cell Pro with his 17 points, 9 of which came from the 3-point territory. Jun Alipio and Bruce Berline had 17 and 14 markers, respectively, in a losing effort for Armatech<\/p>\n<p>Islander 79, PEGS 78<\/p>\n<p>Islander Rent-A-Car came from behind to upend Pacific Engineering Groups &amp; Services.<\/p>\n<p>After facing a 54-62 deficit when the third quarter wrapped up, Islander Rent-A-Car fired 25 points in the final canto to steal the win.<\/p>\n<p>Elgen Mangali scored all his 9 points in the final canto from the parking lot, while Ed Pangelinan and Jet Jandoc tallied 4 markers apiece in the Islanders\u2019 successful comeback bid.<\/p>\n<p>Mangali finished with 22 points, while Rocyl Ritual added 21, and Jandoc registered 17. Jack Lizama paced PEGS with his 25 markers, while Ron Gamboa contributed 24.<\/p>\n<p>MJD 73\u2014Aranda 14, Tabora 10, Ocampo 9, Ja. De  Guzman 7, Lisua 7, Bisana 6, Jo. De Guzman 6, Mungcal 6, Dela Cruz 4, Usi 4.<br \/>\nPPP 52\u2014Odicta 16, G. Pineda 16, Brocano 8, J. Pineda 6, Usi 6.<br \/>\nScoring by quarters: 15-9, 37-22, 49-40, 73-52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MJD Warriors hammered Pacific Postal Plus, 73-52, in the 2018 Emon Lodge No. 179&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":296866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7367],"class_list":["post-296864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mjd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296864","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=296864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}