A SLIGHT drop in concentration at the critical last five minutes of the game cost the Sea Eagles\u2019 U15 midgets dearly, allowing Patriots 3 to pull away and take The Hills boys\u2019 division-A grand final, 44-36, at the Hills Sports Stadium on Monday, March 30, 2015.<\/p>\n
It was a tight contest, with the Sea Eagles trailing the Patriot early before assuming the lead at the break.<\/p>\n
It took a couple of minutes before the Patriots struck with two baskets.<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles came on board with their first basket to bring the score to 6-2. The teams were scoring baskets steadily, with the Patriots holding on to the lead by 2 baskets and the Sea Eagles playing catch-up.<\/p>\n
Towards the latter part of the first half, Sea Eagles coach Roger Mantua called time-out to map out tactics. Back on court, the Sea Eagles went on to take the lead of 9 points with excellent rebounds, turn-overs and lay-ups.<\/p>\n
The first half had the Sea Eagles leading 19-13.<\/p>\n
In the second half, the teams tied at 19-All and then again at 26-All.<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles racked up\u00a0the fouls, which the Patriots used to advantage.<\/p>\n
In the last 40 seconds, Sea Eagles were leading 36 to 33 when Patriots tied the score with a 3-pointer. It was 36-36 at the buzzer. The game then went into over-time.<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles began to feel the pressure, coach Mantua barked instructions which seemed to fall on deaf ears as errors and fouls stunted their play.<\/p>\n
The Patriots on the other hand scored 3-pointers and sunks their foul-throws to seal the grand final, 44-36.<\/p>\n
Not bad for the Sea Eagles midgets\u2019 very first season as a team, which comprised captain Royce Mantua, Kwabena Brefo, Rishon Royce, Isaiah Minami, Damian Hampstead, Jack Phang, and Rubens You who was unable to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A SLIGHT drop in concentration at the critical last five minutes of the game cost the Sea Eagles\u2019 U15 midgets dearly, allowing Patriots 3 to pull away and take The Hills boys\u2019 division-A grand final, 44-36, at the Hills Sports Stadium on Monday, March 30, 2015.<\/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\/3692"}],"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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}