{"id":306683,"date":"2019-08-26T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=306683"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:04:22","slug":"tinian-tops-olaces-in-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tinian-tops-olaces-in-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinian tops Ol\u2019Aces in finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_306684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306684\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rollers.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tinian players and officials pose with their championship trophy after beating the Ol\u2019Aces in overtime, 60-58, in the boys U18 division finals of the Pacific Amusement \/NMI Rollers Youth Basketball Tournament at the Koblerville Gymnasium last Saturday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Tinian Typhoons pulled off a 60-58 overtime victory over the Ol\u2019Aces in the U18 division finals of the Pacific Amusement \/NMI Rollers Youth Basketball Tournament at the Koblerville Gymnasium last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Eron Borja made 4 points in the extra period, while Gregory Santos and Robert Reyes added 2 each in Tinian\u2019s close win and upset over the No. 1 seed Ol\u2019Aces. Tyler Santos also scored in the extension, connecting on his first free throw. He missed the second one and there was a battle for the rebound with neither team able to get possession, as time expired, handing the Typhoons the win.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Santos top-scored for Tinian with his 17 points, while Leo Epity contributed. 13. <\/p>\n<p>Coby Santos led the Ol\u2019Aces, as he also recorded 17 points, while Jesstin Laniyo had 15 points. <\/p>\n<p>After the tough win, Tinian Typhoons coach Keith Nabors credited the success of the team to the hard work each member put in, the skills they contributed, and the tight-knit community they came from. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just goes to show their dedication and hard work. The boys put in the hard work and the practice this week. It\u2019s them wanting to come up here and take the win back home. It feels good, these kids have been playing together their whole life and this is just a culmination of their hard work,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re able to grow up together, I think you\u2019re going to have more success. We don\u2019t have the number of athletes that Saipan has, but with the number of athletes we do have, they execute their part whether it be on defense, rebounding, steals, and scoring. Whatever they do, they do it well,\u201d Nabors added. <\/p>\n<p>Nabors also said the team\u2019s biggest challenge was finding places to practice but they were able to overcome it and \u201cwe came over here ready to play, and executed the game plan,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Amusement\/NMI Rollers Youth Basketball Tournament was the first league the Tinian Typhoons have participated in since Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the island. <\/p>\n<p>Tinian was awarded the inaugural league\u2019s perpetual championship trophy and the team vows to come back next season to defend its title. <\/p>\n<p>Tinian Typhoons 60\u2014G. Santos 17, Epity 13, Cruz 9, Borja 7, T. Santos 7, Reyes 7.<br \/>\nOl\u2019Aces 58\u2014Santos 17, Laniyo 15, Atan 11, Deleon Guerrero 6, Omelau 4, Ichihara 2, Kaipat 2.<br \/>\nScoring by quarters: 20-19, 29-24, 49-47, 51-51, 60-58 (OT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tinian Typhoons pulled off a 60-58 overtime victory over the Ol\u2019Aces in the U18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":306684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1521],"class_list":["post-306683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ol-aces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306683","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}