{"id":2317,"date":"2019-04-10T19:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:36:05","slug":"st-james-high-keep-marching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"St. James High keep marching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Noelita Lawrence<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>St. James continued their impressive stroll through the\npreliminary rounds of the ISSA Western Conference Under-14 Basketball\nCompetition and punched their tickets to the semi-finals after remaining\nundefeated after eight rounds of games.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Montego Bay\nCricket Club, St. James High, former beating sticks of the Conference, chalked\nup a 55-31 victory over York Castle to remain the only undefeated team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest victory lifts\nthe St. James High team to 16 points; opening up a five-point lead over\ndefending champions and second-positioned Herbert Morrison Technical High. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malike Marston was\nthe star scorer for the winners, sinking 14 points as they led from start to\nfinish in the contest getting in double digits for all but the second quarter\nof the affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being kept\noff the scoreboard for the entire opening quarter, Ricky Richards had a\ngame-high 16 for losing York Castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first game of\nthe double header at the Cricket Club, Holland High coasted by Muschett 32-10\nin the Trelawny derby, improving their record to 2-4 with Muschett remaining\nwith just a solitary victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere,\nstruggling champs, Herbert, exacted revenge on their bitter city rivals, outscoring\nthem 20-14 in an uninspiring and low-scoring encounter at Bogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darren McFarlane\nwith 5 points, four blocks and 10 rebounds led the scoring for the Herbert\nteam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shemar Martin of\nCornwall starred for his team with 5 points, 5 rebounds and 9 steals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just two rounds of\ngames remain ahead of the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. James continued their impressive stroll through the preliminary rounds of the ISSA Western Conference Under-14 Basketball Competition and punched their tickets to the semi-finals after remaining undefeated after eight rounds of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}