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Let’s play ball; sail, sail away
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Posted on Mar 11 2006
The past week saw the 2006 Saipan Little League Baseball Association kick off last weekend at both the Miguel Basa Softball Field and Francisco M. Palacios Baseball Field in the Oleai Sports Complex.
Twenty-six teams in the Major, Junior, Senior, and Big leagues will duke it out this summer for the right to represent their home island in the district championships and on to the regional tournament, and hopefully, in the World Series in the U.S. mainland.
Elsewhere last March 5, SIP-Flor A. Miranda got a running start in its best-of-three final series for the championship of the Budweiser-Coca Cola UFO Inter-Organizational Basketball League after it subdued Cabalen-RP Construction/Transamerica, 88-79, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.
Local yachtsmen Tony Stearns and Janet McCullough also continued their supremacy of the waters surrounding the Marianas after claiming their 12th win in last weekend’s 31st Annual Laguna Regatta.
Saipan International School cage belles also made history by winning their third consecutive Private School Basketball League championship last Thursday at the expense of Mt Carmel School, 48-16, at their campus in As Lito.
The week also saw the D9ers win the 2006 Men’s Island-Wide Fast-Pitch Softball League championship and the Hitters upset Bomsoro in the finals of the 2006 Women’s Island-Wide Slow-Pitch Softball League Thursday, both at Tan Ge field.
In high school Rocball, the semifinals between defending champion Mwaliyas and upstart Black Magic is currently knotted up at a game apiece at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. The winner of the best-of-three series will face early qualifier Ochobu.
Action in the MISA High School Basketball League, IVYBL, and 2006 Inter-Government Basketball League also continued last week.
