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Mobil to map 2006 cage season today
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Posted on Dec 07 2005
The countdown for 2006 has barely begun and yet organizers behind the Commonwealth’s only co-ed basketball league are already starting preparations for the 6th Annual Mobil Oil Marianas Invitational Co-ed Basketball League.
Mobil cage league coordinator Abner Venus is calling on all participating teams to send representatives for today’s organizational meeting set at Aqua Resort Club’s Raraina Restaurant at 11:30am.
Team representatives from defending champion Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan (The former Dai-Ichi Hotel Saipan Beach), Hyatt Regency Saipan, Microl Corp., Commonwealth Utilities Corp., Commonwealth Ports Authority, McDonald’s, host Mobil, and newcomer Saipan Ice & Water Co. are required to attend the meeting.
Venus said aside from the eight aforementioned teams, he is also planning to extend invitations to the soon-to-be-formed CNMI Men’s and Women’s National Basketball teams.
The Mobil co-ed basketball league was formed in 2001 to give the giant oil company a venue to fellowship with its client companies. Since its inaugural season, the cagefest has grown in popularity and has attracted a following made up mostly of employees and staff of teams participating in the league.
It has even survived the demise of league pioneer Pacific Development Inc. (the 2003 champion) and that year’s second runner-up Pacific Island Aviation.
Last year, Dai-Ichi won the championship against host Mobil, 130-114. Empty-handed in its first three years in the league (it didn’t suit up in the league’s inaugural season), Dai-Ichi benefited with its merging with sister team Tan Holding Corp. and fielded a powerful lineup led by 2005 MVP Elmer Esdrelon and a Japanese import in the person of cage belle Noe Okahira.
The Mobil crown was previously worn by THC (2001), Microl (2002), PDI (2003), and Aqua Resort Club (2004).
For more information on the 2006 Mobil Oil Marianas Invitational Co-ed Basketball League, contact Venus at 287-5911.
