{"id":276348,"date":"2020-11-23T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=276348"},"modified":"2020-11-23T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:56:14","slug":"ginebra-nears-finals-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/23\/ginebra-nears-finals-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginebra nears finals return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBarangayGinebra%2Fposts%2F10157920521074385&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=710&amp;appId\" width=\"552\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Barangay Ginebra moved to within a win from making a return to the Philippine Basketball Association Finals after beating the Meralco Bolts, 91-84, in Game 3 Sunday of their semifinal series at the Angeles University Foundation Sports and Cultural Center in Pampanga.<\/p>\n<p>Ginebra outscored Meralco, 27-12, in the first quarter and kept the double-digit advantage for most of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts still tried to mount a comeback, but the team could only cut the lead to as low as six points as time ran out for them.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Pringle put up 24 points on 10-of-20 shooting, nine rebounds, and six assists for the Barangay, which retook the lead in the best-of-five series and can close out the series on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Caperal added 15 points, six rebounds, and one block off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Japeth Aguilar put up a double-double of 13 rebounds and 12 points with four blocks and one steal.<\/p>\n<p>Allein Maliksi fired six three-pointers for 23 points with one assist and one steal for the Bolts, who need to win in Game 4 to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Barangay Ginebra moved to within a win from making a return to the Philippine Basketball Association Finals after beating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":266199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276348","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\/276348","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=276348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276359,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276348\/revisions\/276359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}