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Like its starting center Azriel Fatialofa, Grace Christian Academy is heads above the competition and the Lady Eagles proved this once again last Wednesday when they improved to 7-0 in the IT&E Interscholastic Girls Middle School Basketball League after beating two teams at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n
In the first game, GCA went down 0-6 early against Francisco M. Sablan Middle School as the towering Fatialofa was late for the match. However, when the Fatialofa arrived the Lady Eagles proceeded to outscore FMS, 23-3, to earn its sixth win in six outings.<\/p>\n
Fatialofa paced GCA with 14 points, while Rosie Saralu top-scored for FMS with 5 points. It was FMS\u2019 first loss in three games<\/p>\n
GCA again suited up for the fifth and last game Wednesday against Hopwood Middle School 1 and Fatialofa this time wasn\u2019t late. With the league\u2019s leading scorer, rebounder, and shot blocker jumping at center court, the Lady Eagles were dominant early and led 12-6 after the first half. GCA then blanked HMS 1 in the second half en route to the emphatic 30-6 victory.<\/p>\n
Fatialofa led the Lady Eagles with 20 points, while Jerica Manuel topped HMS 1 with 4 markers.<\/p>\n
In the second game, HMS 2 almost doubled up Mount Carmel School, 11-6, thanks to the 12 points of Kialeen Leemarvin. Valerie Estella and Mya Pangelinan scored 3 points apiece for the Lady Knights. HMS 2 improved to 3-2, while MCS absorbed its third loss in four games.<\/p>\n
HMS 1 posted its first win by keeping Tanapag Middle School winless in the third game, 16-8. Divine Baxter led a balanced scoring attack by the Lady Hilitais 1 with 4 points, while Jerica Manuel and Trista Paul added 4 markers apiece. HMS 1 improved to 1-3 in the team standings (1-4 after losing to GCA later in the day).<\/p>\n
In the fourth game, FMS improved to 3-1 after exacting TMS its second straight loss of the day, 17-3. The Lady Napu Riders were paced by Joannah Concillado\u2019s 12 points<\/p>\n
First Game FMS 9<\/strong> \u2013 Saralu 5, Surima 2, Manahane 2.<\/p>\n Scoring by halves: 11-4, 23-9.<\/p>\n Second Game MCS 6<\/strong> \u2013 Estella 3, Pangelinan 3.<\/p>\n Scoring by halves: 11-6, 21-6.<\/p>\n Third Game TMS 8 <\/strong>\u2013 Castro 4, Sablan 2, Achanto 2.<\/p>\n Scoring by halves: 8-4, 16-8.<\/p>\n Fourth Game TMS 4 <\/strong>\u2013 Sablan 3, Yumul 1.<\/p>\n Scoring by halves: 5-1, 17-4.<\/p>\n Fifth Game HMS-1 6 <\/strong>\u2013 Manuel 4, Paul 2.<\/p>\n Scoring by halves: 12-6, 30-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like its starting center Azriel Fatialofa, Grace Christian Academy is heads above the competition and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":352705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14303,5044,21248,1181],"class_list":["post-352700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fms","tag-hs","tag-lady-eagles","tag-mcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352700","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=352700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGCA 23<\/strong> \u2013 Az. Fatialofa 14, Torres 4, Hall 3, Regan 2.<\/p>\n
\nHMS-2 21<\/strong> \u2013 Leemarvin 12, Yleisa 4, Jaecias 3, Christopher 2.<\/p>\n
\nHMS-1 16 <\/strong>\u2013 Baxter 5, Paul 4, Manuel 4, Sablan 2.<\/p>\n
\nFMS 17<\/strong> \u2013 Saralu 12, Diaz 5.<\/p>\n
\nGCA 30<\/strong> \u2013 Az. Fatialofa 20, Hall 6, Torres 4.<\/p>\n