{"id":204391,"date":"2019-02-27T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=204391"},"modified":"2019-02-27T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:19:03","slug":"columbian-powers-past-meralco-for-third-win-in-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/27\/columbian-powers-past-meralco-for-third-win-in-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbian powers past Meralco for third win in the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_204392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204392\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/53061963_2639378249411927_3513639829197815808_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/53061963_2639378249411927_3513639829197815808_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Final: 86 &#8211; 85 in favor of the Columbian Dyip!<br \/>Best Player: Rashawn McCarthy with 30 points and 8 rebounds #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2639378246078594\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/?__xts__[0]=68.ARDLqDzfcYfNVt4urN0v7V35fMBUUplppnAiyValEOdGUjpKGfuxUHi9tkMpL87i0QSRYGn0ecgb7OCXcO6IuwBtMD5CGLK9Ve44ghaBdkFUh1fOSRMXzZsqs7pzyxjv79U50nlOn_qEwitzLz6020ZwMFq5CNJK2rd_Hju0V_d4y37GQLdwrJNWuErK8vjAft0456J_DOUqu-w5BErH97P1SKNKblDdFAklsMPhJ0Wp11rFgvuc192N-eObA1TfEYEYnmvBW_KCGQkGjh27OasshWGid7Y_O4M1QlOBqEU1T-iUMUoNUhRQlv1kIrvu2ZdSOtArdDqCCxjKZ-51m126Ow&amp;__tn__=k*F&amp;tn-str=k*F\">PBA<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Columbian Dyip celebrated a victory once again as they conquered Meralco in an intense Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup elimination match at the Smart Araneta Coliseum last Wednesday, February 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was Filipino-American Rashawn McCarthy who led the way for his team, with a career-high 30 points. He scored 10 of those points in the fourth quarter alone, which gave his team as much as a six-point lead in the last 2:30 minutes left in the game. Glenn Khobuntin and Eric Camson performed as well for Columbian, contributing 14 points and 10 points each. On the opposing side, Chris Newsome chipped 17 points for Meralco, while Cliff Hodge and Ranidel De Ocampo both provided 14 points individually. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the post-game interview, Columbian head coach Johnedel Cardel joked in Filipino, \u201cI think I wouldn\u2019t be able to come back here (to the room) after three straight losses,\u201d explaining, \u201cIn the long break, I gave the boys a four-day break to forget about basketball because our games were one after the other at that time,\u201d referring to their long break to give way to the FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers, also stating, \u201cThe kids kind of got burnt. We weren\u2019t able to recover, but it\u2019s a good start for us.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coach Johnedel also added to his statement, \u201cI told the guys to forget what happened in the past six games but don\u2019t forget about why we lose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Columbian Dyip, who now stands 3-4, will once again try to keep up with their positive performances as they face a struggling Blackwater this Friday, March 1 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Meralco Bolts, who have fallen to 2-4, will attempt to rise from their back-to-back losing streak the next day at Cagayan de Oro City as they face Magnolia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbian Dyip celebrated a victory once again as they conquered Meralco in an intense Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204391","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=204391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}