{"id":389977,"date":"2023-04-21T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=389977"},"modified":"2023-04-21T06:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:01:20","slug":"k2-ballerz-win-double-a-loses-in-sclc-caging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/k2-ballerz-win-double-a-loses-in-sclc-caging\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 Ballerz win, Double A loses in SCLC caging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K2 Ballerz won again, while Double A Corp. lost again in the 2nd Annual Saipan Centennial Lions Basketball League last Wednesday at the Civic Center Basketball Court in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, Double A\u2019s only bright spot was the first quarter where they led 15-9. Blue Haus, however, won the next three quarters after that as it drained Double A dry en route to an 84-67 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Diaz and Brendon Talania shot the lights out against Double A, finishing with 21 and 20 points, respectively. Double A was paced by the 18 markers of Rodney Catalla and 11 points of Aiken Ege.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Haus thus remained unscathed in the masters division at 4-0, while Double A is at 1-3 following its win in the previous game.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, K2 Ballerz extricated itself from a close game and outlasted Checkpoint International, 76-72, in the open division.<\/p>\n<p>Checkpoint International actually led after the opening 10 minutes, 20-16, but the game was pretty much even-steven after that before K2 Ballerz outplayed their opponents down the stretch to improve to 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Palmes led all scorers with 26 points for K2 Ballerz, while Austin Camacho fired 13 markers for the now 0-6 Checkpoint International.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, MarTech Ol\u2019Acs cruised to an 86-71 win over The Game and stayed perfect in the open division at 5-0, while their opponents lost just their second game in five outings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, Puerto Rico Bento improved to 3-2 after waylaying Socho Team, 69-61. The latter went down to its fifth straight loss after winning their debut.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, Susan\u2019s Catering got the better of Checkpoint International, 83-73, to raise its record to 2-4, while keeping their opponents winless in five games at that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Game<br \/>\nBlue Haus 84<\/strong> \u2013 Diaz 21, Talania 20, Barrios 11, De Dios 10, Berline 7, Esdrelon 5, Santos 4, Peredo 3, Aitogue 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double A Corp. 67<\/strong> \u2013 Catalla 18, Lontoc 10, Palero 9, Rivera 7, Jugos 4, Tolentino 4, Sangoyo 3, Pablo 3, Cabaluna 2.<br \/>\n<strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong> 9-15, 36-29, 59-46, 84-67.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Game\u00a0<br \/>\nK2 Ballerz 76<\/strong> \u2013 Palmes 26, Mariano 19, Santos 8, Taitingfong 6, Mamis 5, Faisao 4, Dikito 3, Pua 3, Kaipat 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Checkpoint Int\u2019l 72<\/strong> \u2013 A. Camacho 13, Ege 11, Esmores 9, G. Camacho 8, Maesa 6, Yanto 5, Lumen 3, Eliazar 3.<br \/>\n<strong>Scoring by quarters:<\/strong> 16-20, 41-41, 56-56, 76-72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K2 Ballerz won again, while Double A Corp. lost again in the 2nd Annual Saipan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":389985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389977","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=389977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}