{"id":2562,"date":"2013-05-07T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2013-05-07T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:17:42","slug":"silver-lining-at-police-games-by-jaime-k-pimentel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"Silver lining at Police Games by Jaime K. Pimentel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinoz-led Australian Customs men&#8217;s basketball squad took silver at the 2013 NSW Police Games last week, going down, 42-34, to the combined Hills Council-Hills Police in the final at the Stanhope Gardens stadium.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Customs five, coached by Ray Policarpio, had beaten the Council-Police combo, 34-31, in the elimination rounds but faded in the dying minutes of the final to let the gold medal slip away.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Customs assault at the championships were pinoz point-guard and play-maker Redmond &#8216;The Brute&#8217; Policarpio and power forward Melvin &#8216;The Captain&#8217; Gapido with his booming three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Other players in the Customs squad were Nathan Aplitt, Ben Spencer, Josh Button, Andrew Lattouf, Darren Mobbs, Italo Bustamante, and Jason Zacka.<\/p>\n<p>In the preliminaries, Customs trounced State Corrective Services, 30-19, and demolished NSW Ambulance, 44-29, but were edged, 42-38, by the towering NSW Fire Brigade, 38-42.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Police Games are held yearly, and participants from all law-enforcement agencies are eligible to take part in the Olympic-style sporting events including team sports such as basketball, athletics, swimming, shooting, equestrian and cycling. ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinoz-led Australian Customs men&#8217;s basketball squad took silver at the 2013 NSW Police Games last week, going down, 42-34, to the combined Hills Council-Hills Police in the final at the Stanhope Gardens stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}