{"id":3546,"date":"2025-07-30T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:41:30","slug":"saints-capital-basketball-trounce-rivals-to-make-good-first-impression-in-v-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/saints-capital-basketball-trounce-rivals-to-make-good-first-impression-in-v-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints, Capital Basketball trounce rivals to make good first impression in V-Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saints and Capital Basketball led from start to finish in holding off their respective rivals to enter the win column right away in the V-Cup 40-and-Above Legends Basketball tournament held recently at West Rembo Gym in Taguig.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals dumped IT Depot x Tela Athletics, 70-60, after the former\u00a0 jumped the gun early, posting a 44-24 half time lead and never looked back despite getting a last-minute resistance from in the latter stretch of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the charge for the Capitals was Romeo Almerol, who was rock-solid on both ends of the court. He finished the game with 19 points on a steady 8-of-012 shooting from the field, while also pulling down eight boards for the Arnold Oliveros-mentored squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints, on the other hand, survived a late scare from FMC Cura Industries before preserving a 71-66 triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Hawkins scattered 16 markers as he injected energy for the Saints, who also controlled the game right from the get-go, but held steadier in outlasting the late rally put up by their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saints and Capital Basketball led from start to finish in holding off their respective rivals to enter the win column right away in the V-Cup 40-and-Above Legends Basketball tournament held recently at West Rembo Gym in Taguig. The Capitals dumped IT Depot x Tela Athletics, 70-60, after the former\u00a0 jumped the gun early, posting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoops-basketball","tag-v-cup-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}