{"id":342247,"date":"2021-04-15T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=342247"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:02:53","slug":"rollers-black-forces-rubber-match-in-u17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rollers-black-forces-rubber-match-in-u17\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollers Black forces rubber match in U17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342249\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rollers-pix.jpg-copy.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rollers Black\u2019s Steve King pulls up from 3-point territory against the outstretched hand of Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 Matthew Lucas in Game 1 of the U17 championship of the Rollers Basketball Association 2021 Spring Madness League last Sunday at the Koblerville Gymnasium. (Mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steve King made two straight triples in the last 45 seconds to lead Rollers Black to a pulsating 56-50 win against Ol\u2019Aces in the U17 championship game of the Rollers Basketball Association 2021 Spring Madness League last Sunday at the Koblerville Gymnasium. <\/p>\n<p>Needing to win the game to force a winner-take-all Game 2 in the finals, Rollers Black led majority of the game until a late rally by Ol\u2019Aces almost forced overtime.<\/p>\n<p>With Rollers Black leading by 3 points, 50-47,with less than a minute to go in the game, Ol\u2019Aces guard Airson Atan rose up from a confusing half-court set and pulled up from rainbow country and tied the score.<\/p>\n<p>Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 celebration proved short-lived though, as Rollers Black didn\u2019t panic and inbounded the ball and in a semi-fastbreak saw King set up from the right corner where he unleashed a 3-point bomb from what seemed like 25 feet that hit nothing but the bottom of the net to give his team a 53-50 lead. <\/p>\n<p>The Stephen Curry-wannabee\u2014he wears the Baby-faced Assassin\u2019s familiar No. 30\u2014followed up that trifecta with 45 seconds to go by rebounding a crucial Ol\u2019Aces miss and then dribbled past half court before burying another cold-blooded 3-pointer from farther out to put the game out of reach with 27 ticks left on the game clock.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Rollers Black of coach Joe Diaz lived another day by erasing elimination round top-notcher Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 twice-to-beat advantage in the finals. The two teams will square off again for all the marbles on Saturday, April 17, 12:30pm still at the Koblerville Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>King paced Rollers Black in the cardiac win with 22 points on top of 4 rebounds and three steals. Anthony Lahara ably backed him up by tossing 15 points of his own while also hauling down 4 boards and blocking 2 shots. Also finishing in double figures for Rollers Black was Leopoldo Naraja who wound up contributing 12 points, 4 rebounds, and an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the sorry loss, Ol\u2019Aces got an all-around game from Craig Padayao, who had 16 points, 11 rebounds, 2 steals, and a block. Atan was the only other double-figure scorer for Ol\u2019Aces with 15 markers. He also grabbed 3 rebounds, dished out twice, and stole the ball once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rollers Black 56<\/strong> \u2013 King 22, Lahara 15, Naraja 12, Claridados 3, Pelisamen 2, Diaz 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ol\u2019Aces 50<\/strong> \u2013 Padayao 16, Atan 15, Fiden 4, Basa 4, Wabol 3, Lucas 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve King made two straight triples in the last 45 seconds to lead Rollers Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":342248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342247","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\/342247","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}