{"id":219440,"date":"2025-10-12T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:25:08","slug":"debuting-mark-esperanza-lifts-san-sebastian-past-mapua-for-breakthrough-win-in-ncaa-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219440\/","title":{"rendered":"Debuting Mark Esperanza lifts San Sebastian past Mapua for breakthrough win in NCAA Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 12, 2025 8:41pm<\/p>\n<p>Updated October 12, 2025 8:41pm<\/p>\n<p>Mark Esperanza drained two clutch free throws to cap off his stellar debut for San Sebastian College-Recoletos, powering a 72-71 escape against Mapua University in the NCAA Season 101 on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza, a former Adamson University standout in the UAAP, hauled down the defensive rebound and quickly pushed the ball to their court, drawing a crucial foul on Froilan Reyes with just two seconds remaining in the fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He calmly sank both free throws to lift the Staglets to their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza, who missed the squad&#8217;s first three outings that resulted in losses, put together with 23 points laced with six rebounds, four assists, and two steals as they improved to 1-3 in Group A.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year old Esperanza missed the three games as he was suspended for playing in another league just before the season started.<\/p>\n<p>Browyn Tepan and JC Ynot chipped in 13 and 11 markers apiece as they snapped Mapua&#8217;s two-game winning streak as the Red Robins dropped to 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Kean Dungca led Mapua with 19 points together with eight rebounds, four assists, and two steals while Jhillian Palis chipped in 15 markers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 12, 2025 8:41pm Updated October 12, 2025 8:41pm Mark Esperanza drained two clutch free throws to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,123808,398,400,84726,401,123807,99],"class_list":["post-219440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-mapua-red-robins","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-season-101","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-san-sebastian-staglets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}