{"id":380706,"date":"2022-11-30T06:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=380706"},"modified":"2022-11-30T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:02:31","slug":"contributed-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/contributed-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sablan, Sumang win BASA home run derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_380691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380691\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BASA-pixwb-4.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BASA-pixwb-4.gif\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men\u2019s home run winner Cartfield Sablan of Team Peleliu with Belau Amateur Softball Association president Leo Bobai. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Major League Baseball sportscaster Chris \u201cBoomer\u201d Berman were to call the home run derby held last Sunday, he would\u2019ve chanted \u201cback, back, back, back!\u201d four times\u2014as Cartfield Sablan hit three home runs, while Allana Sumang hit one to claim the men\u2019s and women\u2019s division crowns in the home run derby of the 2022 Budweiser Belau Amateur Softball Association League held at the Dandan Softball Field.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan of Team Peleliu initially smacked four big ones out of the park but was tied with Tokahao\u2019s Jeff Cruz, which led to a second round to break the tie.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the shootout, Sablan was the last man standing when the smoke cleared, as he hit three home runs to Cruz\u2019s two.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_380696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380696\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BASA-pix-2wb.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/BASA-pix-2wb-300x225.gif\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women\u2019s home run winner Allana Sumang of Team Lady Eagles with  BASA president Leo Bobai and board member Hector Efraim. (CONTRIBUTED )<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Third place went to Sufa\u2019s Audie Maratita who hit three home runs in the first round.<br \/>\nIn the women\u2019s division derby, Sumang of the Lady Eagles, Kiana Aldan of Queens of Diamonds, and Glare Mabel of Lady Eagles all had three home runs in the first round which opened the second tie breaking round.<\/p>\n<p>There, Sumang hit the first-place clinching home run, while Aldan and Mabel came out empty, which opened up the third round for second and third place. Aldan snatched the second place prize as she hit three home runs while Mabel hit two.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 batters from the men\u2019s division joined the derby, with Jerome Delos Santos, Marino Hiroichi, and J.J. Laniyo hitting two home runs each, while Darwin Masaharu, Taylor Germance, Dominic Hideo, and Tony Pangelinan hit one each. Chris Sablan, Henry Reyes, Clint Quitugua, John Diaz, Manny Villagomez, and Mike Techur came up with goose-eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s champion brought home a Bud Light bat, second place won two cases of beer, and third place won one case of beer, while the men\u2019s champion won a Budweiser bat, second place won two cases of beer, and third place won one case of beer.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the champions in the individual results will be posted in the next editions of <em>Saipan Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Major League Baseball sportscaster Chris \u201cBoomer\u201d Berman were to call the home run derby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":380690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-380706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380706","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=380706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}