{"id":176173,"date":"2018-08-11T02:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176173"},"modified":"2018-08-11T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:39:27","slug":"australia-battles-ph-fiba-asia-u18-semis-rout-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/11\/australia-battles-ph-fiba-asia-u18-semis-rout-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia battles PH in FIBA Asia U18 semis after rout of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148505\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148505\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Bowen (22 markers, 13 rebounds) and Samson Froling (12 points, 11 rebounds) each tallied double-doubles for Australia, which will take on Batang Gilas in the semifinals on Friday. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; An interesting semifinal will ensue in the FIBA U18 Asian Championship after Australia mauled Japan, 88-52, in the quarterfinal round of the tournament at the Stadium 29 in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Teen Boomers, who also booked a spot in the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup, slowly but surely pulled away from the Teen Akatsuki 5 to pull off the rout.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Bowen (22 markers, 13 rebounds) and Samson Froling (12 points, 11 rebounds) each tallied double-doubles for Australia, which will take on Batang Gilas in the semifinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown will be the first time the Philippines and Australia would collide in a FIBA-sanctioned match since the infamous brawl that ensued between their senior counterparts in Bocaue, Bulacan on July 2.<\/p>\n<p>Keisei Tominaga dropped 16 markers, one dime, and two steals for Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; An interesting semifinal will ensue in the FIBA U18 Asian Championship after Australia mauled Japan, 88-52, in the quarterfinal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176173","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=176173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}