Rocball returns with Lagooners beating Just For Fun

After a month-long break, action in the World Organized Rocball High School League resumed at the Marianas High School Gymnasium, with the Lagooners showing no signs of rust with a convincing victory over Just For Fun yesterday.

The Lagooners played well and won three of the four sets, including the fourth set that enabled them to juice out with a 58-36 win. The win is the fourth in six games for the Lagooners, who currently sit in third place in the team standings, only behind defending champion Mwaliyas and Ochobu.

The match got underway on Wednesday, with the Lagooners taking the early advantage via power hitting and miscues by Just For Fun at the service line. The Lagooners also had problems from behind the service line, which erased two points from their score at the start of the set, but recovered, serve well from then on, and scored six two-pointers to streak to a 15-8 win.

Unfortunately for Just For Fun, the Lagooners were just getting started as Tito Francisco and company continued to pound the ball with their might and dominated the second set. With everything going their way, the Lagooners moved into solid position with a 16-6 win, increasing their lead in the overall point tally to 17 points, 31-14.

Just For Fun finally put up a strong fight in the third set, which was interrupted after time expired.

The two teams returned yesterday and Just For Fun turned the tables as the team stunned the Lagooners with a stronger charge and took the set, 16-11, cutting the deficit to 12 points, 30-42.

Determined to pull their record to the .500 mark, Just For Fun tried to win the fourth set and send the match into o-kon, however, it did not have enough juice to pull off the feat as the Lagooners returned to their dominating ways and sealed the deal with a 16-6 clincher.

Francisco and Saito were hot all match long and finished as co-heavy hitters for the game by leading the Lagooners with 14 points apiece. Francisco had two aces, two xunks, and three kees, while Saito worked up a whopping seven aces and a kee.

Anirut Tebuteb led Just For Fun with six points on two aces and a kee.

Rocball action returns on Tuesday as Ochobu and Caropinos close out round six of the regular season. Ochobu looks to move just a game behind Mwaliyas in the pennant race with a 4-1 record, while the Caropinos are aiming for their first win of the season.

Meanwhile, Rocball creator Jim Feger disclosed that Shane Yamada of Mwaliyas has regained the top spot for Rocball Heavy Hitter with a total of 79 points. The multi-sport athlete is one big reason why Mwaliyas holds a perfect 6-0 win-loss record as he has connected for a jam, an incredible 15 aces, three xunks, 12 kees, and sox goals to lead the league in scoring.

Right behind Yamada is Oleai smacker Myron Laniyo of B-n-S, who trails by a mere two points in the scoring race. Laniyo has a jam, 13 aces, two xunks, a goal, and has smoked up 20 kees for 77 points.

The race expects to get tighter as Yamada and Laniyo both have one game remaining in the regular season.

For more information about high school Rocball, contact Feger at 237-3235.