{"id":383682,"date":"2023-01-19T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=383682"},"modified":"2023-01-19T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:00:11","slug":"masters-caging-enters-final-four-phase-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/masters-caging-enters-final-four-phase-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters caging enters Final Four phase this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s losers go home as the semifinals of the masters division of the Legends Sports Association Invitational Basketball League unfurls this Sunday at the Koblerville Basketball Court.<\/p>\n<p>After its slate of open division games were postponed last week on account of flooding, Legends caging down south returns with the bang as No. 1 seed JSN Construction takes on winless and No. 4 seed Legends Elite in the 8am match.<\/p>\n<p>JSN Construction, which finished the regular season with a 5-1 record, is again expected to lean on Jorge De Guzman, James Abuy, Jun Tabora, Alex Ocampo, and Bernard Montano against Legends Elite.<\/p>\n<p>Legends Elite\u2019s thin hopes of an upset rely on Sonny Ebuen, Dante Tabora, Ed Guinto, Ferdie Tobias, and Dick Tibayan. Legends Elite dropped all six games of the eliminations.<\/p>\n<p>The JSN Construction-Legends Elite tussle will be followed by the 9:15am game pitting second seed Blue Haus against third seed Vizion Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Haus will be back-stopped by former national players Ed Diaz and John Santos along with Elmer Esdrelon, Junar Guiab, Bruce Berline, Edwin Santos, and Richard Peredo.<\/p>\n<p>Vizion Insurance\u2019s chances of surprising Blue Haus depends if they get throwback performances from Leo Itaas, Michael Surima, Ariel Baul, Rodney Catalla, Fradel Sedillo, and Dindo Pablo.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Haus actually finished tied with JSN Construction with a similar 5-1 slate, but lost due to an inferior quotient. Vizion Insurance, meanwhile, was 2-4 in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>After the masters semifinal matches, open division regular season games will follow with JTM Saipan (6-1) taking on winless Pepoy\u2019s Cafe (0-7) in the 10:30am game. It will be followed by the encounter between Vizion Insurance (2-5) and Marianas Health Services (3-4) at 11:45am.<\/p>\n<p>The 1am game will then pit Blue Haus (7-0) against NAPA Auto Parts (4-3), which will then be followed by the 2:15pm clash between Changming Market (6-1) and co-cellar dweller Al-Ger Manpower (0-7). The final game of the day at 3:30pm will then have Pacific Best Choice (3-4) colliding with Padrinos Tuesday Club (4-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s losers go home as the semifinals of the masters division of the Legends Sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":383666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-383682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-final-four"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383682","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=383682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}