{"id":186017,"date":"2018-10-18T23:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=186017"},"modified":"2018-10-18T23:43:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:43:38","slug":"gensan-defeats-laguna-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/18\/gensan-defeats-laguna-home\/","title":{"rendered":"GenSan defeats Laguna at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186018\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186018\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42392441_1988519001445821_8179226158181646336_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Santos survived a late run from Laguna to score a 69-66 home win in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Datu Cup at the Lagao Gymnasium in General Santos City on Thursday night. (photo: MPBL\/facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; General Santos survived a late run from Laguna to score a 69-66 home win in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Datu Cup at the Lagao Gymnasium in General Santos City on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Warriors thought they were on their way to blasting the Heroes after limiting the visitors to just two points on 1-of-17 shooting in the first quarter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But Laguna slowly recovered and went full throttle in the fourth quarter to take a 59-56 lead with 3:58 to play.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">GenSan answered with a 7-1 run to reclaim the lead, 63-60, with 2:18 to go.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ralf Olivarez scored on a triple to tie the game anew, 63-all, but the Warriors responded with five unanswered points capped by back-to-back baskets from Delmar Mahaling to put them up, 68-63.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Denok Miranda still kept the Heroes in the game with a huge triple that cut the lead down to two and a steal from John Orbeta.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, Marlon Adolfo turned the ball over, and Leomar Losente had a chance to ice the game.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Losente still kept the door open for Laguna as he only made a split from the free throw line.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Miranda, however, badly missed a contested three-point attempt as time expired<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; General Santos survived a late run from Laguna to score a 69-66 home win in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":186018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186017","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\/186017","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}