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Posted on Jun 04 2005
Champions were hailed in five different sports—baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing and tennis—this past week.
The UMDA Hustlers kicked off the week’s championship celebrations, when the team defeated the Tanapag Braves, 11-8, to take home the Saipan Little League Baseball Association’s Major Division crown Saturday.
The very next evening, pennant champs Diamond Fixers captured the overall championship of the Saipan Ice & Co., Inc. 20th Anniversary Basketball League after beating Micronesian Brokers 105-96 in Game 2 of their final series.
Dai-Ichi Hotel Saipan Beach, meanwhile, annexed the pennant of the 2005 Mobil Oil Marianas Co-ed Invitational Basketball League following their 82-79 win over defending champion Aqua Resort Club last Tuesday.
Noel Sicat and Cindy Taitano also had their taste of championship bliss following their triumph in the 23rd Annual May Masters Bowling Tournament held last Sunday.
Sicat turned back Mark Halstead in the Masters event nipping the defending champion by a single pin, 3,270-3,269.
For her part, Taitano needed a two-frame roll-off to defeat defending champion Diana Camacho, 47-45, after the two women bowlers finished the women’s Masters event with identical pinfall totals of 2,076.
Nonoy Gonzales raised the flag of the Philippines after he out-pointed South Korea’s Kim Doo Soung in their 10-round, 140-lb. match Sunday. The Saipan Boxing Battle of Champions also featured three amateur fights and one exhibition match.
Felipe Quiroz and Amanda Weindl also distinguished themselves on the tennis court after the two went all the way in the open division of the 24th Annual DFS Micronesian Championships.
Quiroz downed Rory Mackay in the men’s open finals Sunday, while Weindl got the better of Lila Mailman in the women’s open title match also on the same day.
