{"id":425428,"date":"2024-11-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425428"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Her-icanes-storm-past-Bwi-Ballers-36-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Her-icanes-storm-past-Bwi-Ballers-36-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Her-icanes storm past Bwi Ballers, 36-34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Her-icanes stormed past the Bwi Ballers in a close 36-34 game in the 2024 Women\u2019s Basketball League at the Gillette Multi-Purpose Gymnasium in Gualo Rai last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were evenly matched from the opening jump ball and quickly it was all knotted up, 6-6, from back-to-back 3s by the Bwi Ballers\u2019 Britney Gopez. But Her-icanes had a more well-rounded lineup and used their height to their advantage to pull away, 16-8, with 12 minutes left in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Bwi Ballers didn\u2019t let the 8-point deficit get to them though and inched closer, 10-16. From there, both teams stagnated after a shot by Her-icanes\u2019 Rachel Langu to make it 18-10. Their defenses strengthened and it was an 18-10 game until finally, Her-icane\u2019s Kaia Travilla sank a basket with six minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>It was a much closer game in the second half as Bwi Ballers\u2019 went for a rally. Until the last minutes of the game, both teams were deadlocked until Her-icanes\u2019 Mikki Kautz delivered the 2 points needed to take the win, 36-34.<\/p>\n<p>In the other games that day, Katinko Queens ran to victory, 29-17, over Alley Oops, and Prime 1 defeated Prim 2, 19-14.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly league is a mix of NMI Women\u2019s National Basketball Team players and beginners. The rules are simple: national players cannot guard new players, and fastbreak plays and full court presses are not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Interested but don\u2019t have a team? Contact Irish Pagarao at (670)285-1138.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/41befa36039cf63be3695f72187cb577.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Bwi Ballers&#8217; Sylvina Simram, left, goes up against Her-icanes&#8217; Rachel Langu during the opening jump ball of their game in the 2024 Women\u2019s Basketball League at the Gillette Multi-Purpose Gymnasium in Gualo Rai last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/6062b2070e6c4546ca24c1a931db078e.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Her-icane&#8217;s Asia Hilario runs down the court during their game in the 2024 Women\u2019s Basketball League at the Gillette Multi-Purpose Gymnasium in Gualo Rai last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a7deaa66e54efdb924c0700dbe2ad453.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Bwi Baller&#8217;s Marlene Lumabi sets up the play during their game in the 2024 Women\u2019s Basketball League at the Gillette Multi-Purpose Gymnasium in Gualo Rai last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Her-icanes stormed past the Bwi Ballers in a close 36-34 game in the 2024&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425428","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=425428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}