{"id":3639,"date":"2012-02-20T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T08:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T08:54:39","slug":"geckos-break-into-win-colum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/geckos-break-into-win-colum\/","title":{"rendered":"Geckos break into win colum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns116646.jpg\" alt=\"Saipan International School's Fen Xuan Lin goes up for a shot against Grace Christian Academy defenders during their junior varsity game in the MISO caging last Friday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"74\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 The Saipan International School Geckos finally got their taste of victory, following a come-from-behind 32-26 win against Grace Christian Academy in the junior varsity division of the 2011-2012 Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization Boys Basketball League last Friday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams started slow and only managed a basket apiece in the opening 10 minutes, before GCA got its engine started in the second quarter and built an 11-7 advantage at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Dongha Lee did most of the damage for the Eagles, scoring five points in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos and Eagles then traded blows in the third quarter with Lee still finding his mark and adding six more points to give GCA a 26-15 lead, heading into the final period.<\/p>\n<p>After being held to just three points in the first half, SIS&#8217; Chris Cepeda showed signs of heating up in the third quarter and led the Geckos&#8217; fourth-quarter attack. He tallied eight points in the fourth period to go with Fen Xuan Lin&#8217;s six markers, as SIS had its biggest output in the payoff canto with 17 markers against GCA&#8217;s none.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles had plenty of looks at the basket, but simply could not get their shots to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Cepeda led the Geckos&#8217; first win with a dozen marker, while Lee scrambled for 11 in defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The season continues on Wednesday with SIS challenging Saipan Southern High School&#8217;s junior Mantas Rays (3-2) at 4pm, and MHS Dolphins (4-1) taking on the Mount Carmel School Knights (0-7) at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIS 32<\/strong> &#8211; Cepeda 12, Lin 8, J. Kim 6, Johnson 2, M. Kim 2, Y. Kim 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GCA 26 <\/strong>&#8211; Lee 11, Reyes 7, Libut 4, Smithee 2 Sugue 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong> 2-2, 7-11, 15-26, 32-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0 The Saipan International School Geckos finally got their taste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}