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Game 1 goes to Ghasias Brothers
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Posted on Dec 30 2008
Ghasias Brothers drew first blood in the championship series in the 2008-2009 World Organized Rocball Community League, pulling off a double overtime win over the Fanians, 113-105, Monday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.
Ghasias won Game 1 of the best-of-three title series with Freddie Pelisamen scoring crucial points in the second overtime.
The game was tied at 10-all in the second o-kon set when Pelisamen leaped for a backcourt two-point kee. He went for another backcourt kill with the ball finding the net awarding Pelisamen a goal and the series opener win for Ghasias Brothers.
Game 2 was played last night with the Fanians needing to win to force a deciding Game 3.
Ghasias Brother failed to wrap up Game 1 early despite taking a 92-85 lead after four regular sets.
Pelisamen’s team had a jackrabbit start winning the opening set, 25-2. The second set was a neck-and-neck battle with Ghasias Brothers eking out a 26-24 win to take a 51-26 lead at halftime.
Fanians recovered in the third set, 27-26, and prevented Ghasias Brothers from nailing a juiced-out win with a 32-15 victory in the fourth set.
In Rocball, a leading team can only win a match after four sets if it also prevails in the fourth set. If not, the game goes into overtime (o-kon) where the leading squad should win only one set to end the match. The trailing team must win two o-kon sets to grab the victory.
In the first set o-kon, Ghasias had a chance to end the match when it led, 10-7. But Ghasias committed errors, allowing the Fanians to escape with a 10-6 triumph and bring the game into the second overtime.
Pelisamen had seen enough, as he took charge in the second o-kon to finally close Game 1 in Ghasias Brothers’ favor.
Pelisaman was the game’s heavy hitter scoring 25 points on nine kees, two aces, and a goal.
Larry Sharry paced the Faninans with 21 markers on nine kees and a goal.
Ghasias Brothers and the Fanians set-up their title duel after downing their foes in the semifinals. Ghasias topped the Okies, 104-78, while the Fanians dethroned 2007-2008 champion Evenflow, 91-72.
