{"id":10269,"date":"2011-12-30T06:33:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2011-12-30T06:33:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T06:33:21","slug":"cnmi-hosts-beach-volleyball-olympic-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-hosts-beach-volleyball-olympic-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI hosts beach volleyball Olympic qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The CNMI hosted its first-ever Asian Volleyball Confederation Beach Volleyball Oceania Continental Sub Zonal tournament at Pacific Islands Club last March.<\/p>\n<p>Host team CNMI competed against national representative teams from Australia, Guam, and Papau New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Similar campaigns were held in the Eastern, Central, Southeastern and Western zones. These zones featured two sub zonal tourneys apiece, while Oceania held three.<\/p>\n<p>The event was formatted with men and women&#8217;s squads competing in two-person teams.<\/p>\n<p>In sub zonal play on Saipan, the CNMI&#8217;s Melody Matson and Amanda Clarkson defeated Papau New Guinea&#8217;s Dianne John and Hazel Ruga, 15-12, in a deciding golden set to finish second place behind Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The result was good enough for the CNMI to earn passage to the zonal level of competition.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI men&#8217;s team faced some tough competition and were not so fortunate in their run.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Matson and Clarkson have since relocated, but the CNMI has patched together a new squad and is currently training with hopes of participating in 9 AVC Zonal event which will be held in New Zealand in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter The CNMI hosted its first-ever Asian Volleyball Confederation Beach Volleyball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}