{"id":159160,"date":"2018-04-08T00:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159160"},"modified":"2018-04-08T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:08:37","slug":"sottos-brilliant-outing-not-enough-as-batang-gilas-bows-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/08\/sottos-brilliant-outing-not-enough-as-batang-gilas-bows-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotto&#8217;s brilliant outing not enough as Batang Gilas bows to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_159161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159161\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159161\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg\" alt=\"Batang Gilas' quest to score the gold in the FIBA Asia U16 Championship came to a screeching halt on Saturday night after losing to China, 60-54, in the semifinals at the Lingnan Mingzhu Gymnasium in Foshan, China. (Photo: Kai Zachary Sotto\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batang-Gilas-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batang Gilas&#8217; quest to score the gold in the FIBA Asia U16 Championship came to a screeching halt on Saturday night after losing to China, 60-54, in the semifinals at the Lingnan Mingzhu Gymnasium in Foshan, China. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kaizacharysotto\/photos\/a.995172957246088.1073741828.995162240580493\/1335270079903039\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kaizacharysotto\/\">Kai Zachary Sotto\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Batang Gilas&#8217; quest to score the gold in the FIBA Asia U16 Championship came to a screeching halt on Saturday night after losing to China, 60-54, in the semifinals at the Lingnan Mingzhu Gymnasium in Foshan, China.<\/p>\n<p>A monster game from Kai Sotto was not enough as the host squad earned the right to face Australia in the championship game on Sunday behind a third quarter shutdown, in which it limited Batang Gilas to just seven markers all period long.<\/p>\n<p>The said defensive lockdown in the third period was enough for China to outlast Batang Gilas, which still tried to inch closer in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Haoqin led China with 22 points, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto finished with 26 points, 21 rebounds, and six blocks in the losing effort, but Batang Gilas could still finish at the podium with a win over New Zealand in the battle for third on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Batang Gilas&#8217; quest to score the gold in the FIBA Asia U16 Championship came to a screeching halt on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":159161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[49229,420,49228,45159],"class_list":["post-159160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-batang-gilas","tag-china","tag-fiba-asia-u16-championship","tag-kai-sotto","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}