{"id":311137,"date":"2019-10-31T06:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311137"},"modified":"2019-10-31T06:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:04:17","slug":"schmidt-leads-mibl-in-assists-steals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/schmidt-leads-mibl-in-assists-steals\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt leads MIBL in assists, steals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311139\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/miblpix-10.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan Vegas\u2019 Douglas Schmidt, right, drives baseline against The Game\u2019s Mak Mintac during their match in the 2019 Atkins Kroll Marianas International Basketball League early this month at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Douglas Schmidt\u2019s all-around game is in full display in the ongoing 2019 Atkins Kroll Marianas International Basketball League, as he is ahead in the assists and steals departments and also averaged double figures in scoring.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Vegas guard averaged 7.4 assists and 7.3 steals in seven games, helping his squad win its first eight games to move one victory away from sweeping the regular season. Saipan Vegas will go for a sweep next week when it faces MS Villlagomez in the last game in the elimination round.<\/p>\n<p>After seven matches (Saipan Vegas did not play in its eighth match, as it won via forfeit against Aqua Resort Club last weekend), Schmidt registered 52 assists and 51 steals. He also has collected 96 points for an average of 13.7 per match, scoring in twin digits in six of the seven games he played, and recorded 54 rebounds (7.7 average).<\/p>\n<p>Joining Schmidt in the Top 5 of the assists leaderboard are his teammate Coby Santos (5.5 average), AK Toyota\u2019s Jeff Borja (5), Aqua\u2019s Kristian Itaas (5), and IT&amp;E\u2019s Errol Peredo (4.6). In the steals department, Schmidt is ahead of Caravan\u2019s\u2019 Syd Quan (4.6), MS Villagomez\u2019s Matt Richardson (4.5), Santos (4.5), and Bridge Capital, LLC\u2019s Pete Lizama (4.3).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Game\u2019s Mac Mintac is still the league\u2019s scoring leader, while Mystique BBQ\u2019s Jetzen Jandoc and Caravan\u2019s Alex Standish are the top rebounders in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Mintac\u2019s average of 25.3 points in seven games paces the 24.5 of TanHoldings\u2019 Kerwin Dayao, 24.3 of Caravan\u2019s Ken Viray, 21.8 of Jandoc, and 21.5 of Bridge Capital\u2019s Freddie Pelisamen.<\/p>\n<p>In the rebounds department, Jandoc and Standish hold similar averages of 12 to place ahead of TanHoldings\u2019 Michael Torregosa (11.9), Caravan\u2019s Josh Andrew (11.4), and IT&amp;E\u2019s Paulo Rafols (10.6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Schmidt\u2019s all-around game is in full display in the ongoing 2019 Atkins Kroll Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":308649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311137","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=311137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}