Patience and steady play took Joey Agulto to the championship of the Local Boys Christmas Billiard Tournament at 19th Hole last Dec. 22, 2011.<\/p>\n
Agulto topped Randy Sablan in the finals to earn the first place trophy, $170 and a bottle of wine gift. Mei Rengiil was third, with Ed Suzuki fourth, Dave Maratita fifth, and Nize Masayos sixth.<\/p>\n
First through fifth places won trophies donated by Pacific Amusement, bottle wine gifts and prizes from James Han, president of QQ Tour and Travel.<\/p>\n
He provided $100 to the first place winner, one-day car rental from QQ Car Rental for second and third place, and free nail care at M&J Beauty Salon to the fourth and fifth place winners. The entry fee pot was split with $70 for first, $42 for second, and $28 for third place.<\/p>\n
To keep the event from going to late, players pre-registered for the event and came in knowing their start time and opponent player for the night.<\/p>\n
Agulto got an early Christmas present with a bye when his first opponent couldn\u2019t make it. He climbed to the winner’s bracket final by not making mistakes and excellent shot-making while waiting for his opponents to give him an opening.<\/p>\n
He overcame Masayos, Suzuki, and Rengiil in his steady march to the top.<\/p>\n
Masayos had edged Norm Tenorio, while Suzuki outdid Maratita and Pat Taitano before falling to Agulto. Taitano had sent Tay Watanabe to the losers bracket.<\/p>\n
Rengiil handed Ron Chisato, husband Rick Rengiil, and Sablan their first losses, but fell short against Agulto. Sablan had started out strong with a win over Pat Cepeda.<\/p>\n
Maratita came back by eliminating Watanabe, Rick Rengiil and Tenorio, though Tenorio helped by scratching after banking the 8-ball. He then lost to Suzuki in a rematch.<\/p>\n
Cepeda took out Chisato then lost to Masayos. Masayos also finished off Taitano..<\/p>\n
Sablan continued his excellent play, stopping Masayas and edging out Mei Rengiil in their second meeting of the night.<\/p>\n
Agulto got the better position in the final game and held on for the win.\u00a0(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patience and steady play took Joey Agulto to the championship of the Local Boys Christmas…<\/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-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","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=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}