{"id":310840,"date":"2019-10-28T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310840"},"modified":"2019-10-28T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:06:36","slug":"black-panther-survives-olaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/black-panther-survives-olaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther survives Ol\u2019Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_310842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310842\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/volleyballpix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Panther\u2019s Jeff Riman, goes up for a spike during their semis game against The As\u2019 Guardians in the Avengers Volleyball League last Wednesday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.  The Black Panther won and also defeated the Ol\u2019Aces in the finals last Friday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Black Panther ruled the Avengers Volleyball League after withstanding the Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 gallant stand in the championship round last Friday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. <\/p>\n<p>The Black Panther was able to prevail after the long, arduous two games in the finale, taking advantage of the worn-out Ol\u2019Aces in Game 2. The Black Panther eased its way to a 25-15 win in the first set of the deciding Game 2 and completed the sweep with a 25-14 victory in the second to finally bring down the Ol\u2019Aces, who fought their way out of the losers bracket to challenge the former for the title, but gave up to exhaustion in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Before battling the Black Panther, the Ol\u2019Aces dueled the The As\u2019 Guardians for the  second and last finals ticket.  The Ol\u2019Aces took the first set, 25-12, and then earned the rights to face the Black Panther after laboring through a 25-18 triumph in the second.<\/p>\n<p>In the finals, the Black Panther enjoyed a twice-to-beat advantage, as it was undefeated entering the title showdown. The Ol\u2019Aces then threatened to pull the rug under the unbeaten Black Panther after stunning their favored foe in Game 1 of the finals. The Black Panther prevailed in the first set, 25-16, but the Ol\u2019Aces did not back down and took the second, 25-20. The Ol\u2019Aces then completed the comeback and ended the Black Panther\u2019s steak with a 15-9 win in the deciding third set.<\/p>\n<p>After the visibly tired Ol\u2019Aces forced Game 2, the Black Panther capitalized on its winded opponent to take an early 8-1 lead in the first set. The Ol\u2019Aces then rallied and even grabbed the lead 13-11, but the Black Panther showed poise in the end to win the opening set by 10 points with Jericho Castro closing out off a spike.<\/p>\n<p>For the second set, the Black Panther also built an early lead, 15-7, and this time was never threatened, while Castro also wrapped up the game and the championship round, as the Ol\u2019Aces failed to receive his serve.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Castro on the champion squad are Jeff Riman, Riel Paynor, Jensky Rikrik, Bryan Chlarson, PJ Sandoval, Charlie A. Borja, and Cecile Guevarra. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_310846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310846\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/volleyball-pasa-pix-1-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Panther players pose with their trophy and medals after surviving the Ol\u2019Aces in the finale of the 2019 Avengers Volleyball League last Friday at Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.  (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Panther ruled the Avengers Volleyball League after withstanding the Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 gallant stand in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":310841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1521],"class_list":["post-310840","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\/310840","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=310840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}