{"id":379501,"date":"2022-11-11T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=379501"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:01:07","slug":"gca-lady-eagles-win-hs-hoops-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gca-lady-eagles-win-hs-hoops-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA Lady Eagles win HS hoops opener"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>
Grace Christian Academy\u2019s Azriel Fatialofa goes for a layup against Kagman High School in the opening game of the 2022 IT&E Interscholastic Girls High School Basketball League last Monday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grace Christian Academy dominated Kagman High School, 55-25, last Monday in the 2022 IT&E Interscholastic Girls High School Basketball League opener at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n

Lady Eagles\u2019 5\u201911\u201d center Azriel Fatialofa controlled the paint with her 45 points. Teammate Soleil Lamar lent a hand as she scored 8 points and the other 2 points came from Katriel Saures.<\/p>\n

KHS swooshed the nets for just 7 points in the first period, with 4 points from Priscilla Tomokane, 2 points from Kiana Camacho, and a free throw shot from Elicia Cabrera, but by the end of the first period, Fatialofa\u2019s free throw put her team in the lead by 2 points.<\/p>\n

In the end, Fatialofa\u2019s mammoth 45 points drowned out Kagman\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

In the second game, Mount Carmel School defeated defending champion Marianas High School, 27-25, in extra period.<\/p>\n

Chealzka Navarro, who scored 8 points, put in the tie-breaking 2 points in extra period after teammate Valerie Estella tied up the game. Estella and Erin Frink scored a total of 4 points, Mia Abuan scored the most with 9 points, and Asa Backe had 2.<\/p>\n

MHS\u2019 Kina Rangamar scored a total of 13 points, Marielle Lopez had 10 and Tamia Hix contributed 2 points.<\/p>\n

Saipan Southern High School routed Agape Christian School in a close game, 26-24, in Monday\u2019s third match.<\/p>\n

Lady Mantas\u2019 Yasmeen Younis scored 15 points total and the winning and tie-breaking shot in the final seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andrea Ramos added 6 points, Kathyryn Sablan scored 3, and Lency Sagarino and Casey Cruz scored a free throw each for SSHS.<\/p>\n

The Torchbearers\u2019 Eunice Xu contributed 8 points, Ruth Zhang shot 7, Sunny Wang scored 5, and Pheobe Chen and Lynn Zhao scored 2 points each.<\/p>\n

The IT&E Interscholastic Girls High School Basketball League is being run by the Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation.<\/p>\n

GCA 55<\/strong> \u2013 Fatialofa 45, Lamar 8, Saures 2.<\/p>\n

KHS 25<\/strong> \u2013 Tomokane 8, Camacho 8, Cabrera 7, Tudela 2.<\/p>\n

Scoring by halves:<\/strong> 9-7, 55-25.
\n \u00a0\u00a0
\nMCS 27 <\/strong>\u2013 Abuan 9, Navarro 8, Frink 4, Estella 4, Asa Backe 2.<\/p>\n

MHS 25 <\/strong>\u2013 Rangamar 13, Lopez 10, Hix 2.<\/p>\n

Scoring by halves:<\/strong> 13-14, 23-23, 27-25, OT.<\/p>\n

SSHS 26<\/strong> \u2013 Younis 15, Ramos 6, Sablan 3, Sagarino 1, Cruz 1.<\/p>\n

ACS 24<\/strong> \u2013 Xu 8, Zhang 7, Wang 5, Chen 2, Zhao 2.<\/p>\n

Scoring by halves:<\/strong> 13-10, 26-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grace Christian Academy dominated Kagman High School, 55-25, last Monday in the 2022 IT&E Interscholastic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":379490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[698,968,365,1624],"class_list":["post-379501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gca","tag-khs","tag-mhs","tag-sshs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379501","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}