{"id":426220,"date":"2024-12-01T02:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426220"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Arizona-State-holds-on-to-hand-Saint-Mary-s-1st-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Arizona-State-holds-on-to-hand-Saint-Mary-s-1st-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona State holds on to hand Saint Mary&#8217;s 1st loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joson Sanon scored 19 points and Jayden Quaintance had 10 points, nine rebounds and five assists as Arizona State edged previously unbeaten Saint Mary&#8217;s 68-64 to win the Acrisure Classic championship on Friday in Palm Desert, Calif. Adam Miller and BJ Freeman each registered 11 points for the Sun Devils (7-1), who overcame shooting 5-of-18 from 3-point range and 7 of 12 at the free-throw line. Sanon, who also scored 19 points in the Sun Devils&#8217; semifinal win over New Mexico on Thursday, authored another strong effort, shooting 8 of 16 from the field (and 3 of 4 from beyond the arc) without a turnover. Jordan Ross scored 19 points to pace the Gaels (7-1), who knocked down 8 of 17 3-point attempts but missed 6 of 12 free-throw attempts. Augustas Marciulionis chipped in 13 points, and Mitchell Saxen notched 10 points and nine rebounds. The score was tied at 60-60 when Miller knocked down a 3-pointer with just over three minutes to play. Paulius Murauskas&#8217; putback got Saint Mary&#8217;s within a point, but Quaintance countered with a putback to restore a three-point cushion. Basheer Jihad split two free throws with 14 seconds left to make it 66-62 before Marciulionas dropped in a runner with three seconds to play to trim Arizona State&#8217;s lead to 66-64. However, Alston Mason went 2-of-2 from the line to clinch the win. With 3:50 left in the first half, Ross made a 3-pointer and then split a pair of free throws one minute later as Saint Mary&#8217;s pushed its lead to 31-22. However, Arizona State responded with eight straight points, including four by Quaintance, to slice its deficit to one. Saint Mary&#8217;s Mikey Lewis answered with a 3-pointer in the final minute, but Quaintance&#8217;s bucket in the waning seconds got the Sun Devils within 34-32 at the break. Neither team led by more than three in the second half until Sanon&#8217;s triple put the Gaels ahead 46-40 with 12:56 left. However, Luke Barrett answered with a 3-pointer, setting up the close battle down the stretch. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<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\/9de5ff22bdb660bb47fef04f60e36958.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Mar 22, 2024; Spokane, WA, USA; St. Mary&#8217;s Gaels head coach Randy Bennett during the second half in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament against the Grand Canyon Antelopes at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joson Sanon scored 19 points and Jayden Quaintance had 10 points, nine rebounds and five&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426220","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}