The MISO All-Stars group garnered the lead during the opening quarter of the game. Jon Cenir scored nine points to ignite MISO’s winning rally, 21-17.
But that winning rally was quickly fused out after the Ayuyus entered the arena during the second quarter.
Juan Maratita scored 11 points throughout the second quarter to work with teammates Sahj Hossain’s 10 point stat to close the gap made during the first quarter and yank the driver’s seat away from their opponent.
Half-time came and both teams took advantage of the 10 minute break to come up with better offensive and defensive tactics to bring out onto the court.
Minutes later the crowd witnessed the Ayuyus crush the All-Stars team. MISO was only able to score six points after seven minutes of silence from the team.
The Ayuyus tool great advantage of this. Center player Savali Talalemotu scored eight points after Juan Maratita and Sahj Hossain contributed their nine points to the team.
MISO was left behind and the scores were up 64-40 in favor of the 2010-2011 Champions.
The last quarter proved to be brutal for the MISO All-Stars team. Juan Maratita scored another six points to serve the upset to the MISO All-Stars group to claim the coveted first place trophy for the 2011 Settsu-Saipan Basketball Tournament.
Scores:
Ayuyus– S. Hossain 24, J. Maratita 21, S. Talalemotu 18, K. Ogo 10, I. Faisao 8.
MISo All-Stars– J. Darag 21, J. Cenir 14, M. Cadian 8, P. Castro 7, A. Palacios 4, B. Desebel 4.
COPSSA defeats international team, 68-55
DURING the finals of the 2011Settsu-Saipan Friendship Basketball Tournament the COPSSA All-Stars team defeated the international Settsu Red Impulse by 13 points, 68-55.
The Red Impulse garnered the lead in all three quarters of the game but they did not have enough edge to move past COPSSA.
Rikiya Hashimoto nailed a quick jump shot to ignite Settsu’s winning rally. Hashimoto then took a bold shot behind the three point line to help his team advance forward.
Teammates Hisataka Sakaguchi and Hisataka Suda jumped into the band wagon after collaring five points and four points respectively. At the bottom of the first quarter COPSSA was behind by three shaky points, 18-15.
Upon entering the second quarter of the game team Settsu stepped it up a notch to balloon their lead to 12 points. Tatsumi Yamashita fended seven points while Sakaguchi and Suda each contributed his six pence to the team.
By half time the international team was leading the way with 12 points, 37-25. Upon the unraveling of the second half of the bout COPSSA was able to close the gap.
Yishan Wang bagged five points while teammate Jonathan Salas collared four points to shut the gap at three points but the scores were still in favor of Settsu, 43-40.
Both teams anticipated the final quarter of the game as Settsu was slowly being pushed to the ropes. Salas then moved forward into arena to score 11 points to not only close the gap but to snatch the lead as well.
Teammate Wang then scored five points playing fiercely side by side with teammates Min Seong Kim and Wei Liang Li who each garnered four points a piece to hand the upset to Settsu Red Impulse and nail third place overall, 68-55.
Scores:
COPSSA All-Stars (boys)– Y. Wang 21, J. Salas 18, M. Kim 10, W. Li 7, G. Baka 4.
Settsu Red Impulse– H. Suda 14, H. Sakaguchi 11, Y. Nakamura 10, R. Hashimoto 7, T. Yamashita 7, D. Ito 6.
