{"id":305875,"date":"2019-08-13T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=305875"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:02:02","slug":"connies-bbq-saipan-adventure-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/connies-bbq-saipan-adventure-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie\u2019s BBQ, Saipan Adventure prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_305876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305876\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/basketballpix-2.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie\u2019s BBQ\u2019s Darwin Barbo pulls up for a long jumper in an earlier game against IT&amp;E Dark in the 2019 One Pacific Promotional Basketball League at the Civic Center Court in Susupe. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Connie\u2019s BBQ and Saipan Adventure downed their respective opponents in the 2019 One Pacific Promotional Basketball League at the Civic Center Court in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>In last Thursday\u2019s match of the Tsingtao Beer-sponsored league, Saipan Adventure hammered IT&amp;E Light, 93-66. Connie\u2019s BBQ, on the other hand, played last Friday and prevailed over RNV Construction, 82-74.<\/p>\n<p>Connie\u2019s BBQ sizzled in the first half to establish a big lead and never looked back, as it withstood RNV Construction\u2019s repeated comeback bids in the second. A pair of 23 points in the first and second periods gave Connie\u2019s BBQ a 46-26 halftime lead. Nelson Cabang led Connie\u2019s BBQ\u2019s early uprising, as he finished the half with 13 points, while Austin Camacho and Ronald Esmores added 7 apiece. Three other Connie\u2019s BBQ players contributed at least two baskets each for the team\u2019s balance offense.<\/p>\n<p>RNV Construction lagged behind, as it was held to five field goals each in the first and second quarters with Ronald Rueda carrying majority of the load for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Rueda continued to anchor RNV Construction\u2019s offense in the second half where his squad finally scored 20-plus points each in the third and fourth periods. However, his one-man show was not enough to overhaul the big deficit, while Connie\u2019s BBQ still spread the wealth in the second half to maintain its safe distance en route to its second victory in as many games.<\/p>\n<p>Cabang paced Connie\u2019s BBQ with his 25 points, while Darwin Barbo added 12, and Esmores, and Camacho contributed 11 each. Rueda had a game-high 39 markers for RNV Construction.<\/p>\n<p>In last Thursday\u2019s game, Saipan Adventure fired at least 20 points in each of the four quarters to dominate IT&amp;E Light.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Mungcal top-scored for Saipan Adventure with his 22 markers, while Jun Alipio, John Morales, Alex Ocampo, and Jhon Singca also finished in double figures, recording 17, 15, 17, and 10, respectively. Bogs Dayrit led IT&amp;E Light with his 17 markers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday Game<\/strong><br \/>\nConnie\u2019s BBQ 82\u2014Cabang 25, Barbo 12, Camacho 11, Esmores 11, Echavez 9, Dayao 6, Bongalan 4.<br \/>\nRNV Construction 74\u2014Rueda 39, Mortos 17, Odicta 11, Tagle 2, Corong 2, Padulina 2.<br \/>\nScoring by quarters: 23-24, 46-26, 63-48, 82-74.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday Game<\/strong><br \/>\nSaipan Adventure 93\u2014Mungcal 20, Alipio 17, Morales 15, Ocampo 14, Singca 10, Flores 8, Almario 8, Maesa 4.<br \/>\nIT&amp;E Light 66\u2014Dayrit 17, Madreo 14, Henry 13, Biado 8, Nuguid 6, Gotengco 3, Carongan 2.<br \/>\nScoring by quarters: 21-19, 45-37, 68-52, 93-66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie\u2019s BBQ and Saipan Adventure downed their respective opponents in the 2019 One Pacific Promotional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":305876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2434,23515,16902,23521],"class_list":["post-305875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bbq","tag-friday-game","tag-saipan-adventure","tag-thursday-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305875","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=305875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}