{"id":10974,"date":"2011-11-09T05:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2011-11-09T05:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:23","slug":"gca-completes-undefeated-run-in-boys-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gca-completes-undefeated-run-in-boys-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA completes undefeated run in boys volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns114093.jpg\" alt=\"A Grace Christian Academy player, seen here in a file photo, goes for a deep spike in a recent MISO boys volleyball game against Kagman High School held at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"82\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0The Grace Christian Academy Eagles capped a perfect 12-0 season as the Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization&#8217;s boys volleyball regular season came to a close Monday at the the Marians High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>GCA swept the Saipan Southern High School Manta Rays in all three sets, 25-16, 25-16, and 15-12.<\/p>\n<p>GCA received a bye in the double-elimination postseason tournament with the win, while SSHS finished the year in sixth place with a 3-9 win-loss record.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s playoffs is set to run from Nov. 16 to 17. Wednesday&#8217;s games will be held at the MHS gym and start at 3pm, while Thursday&#8217;s matches tip off at 4pm at the Northern Marianas College Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kagman High School Ayuyus finished the regular season on a high note, downing the MHS QT&#8217;s in a tiebreaker match for third place in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In the tiebreaker, KHS took the opening set, 25-20, but the QT&#8217;s regrouped and won the second set, 25-19, to force a deciding final set.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, KHS buckled down to work in the clutch to get the nod, 15-11, and along with it the second seed in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>KHS finished with a 7-5 slate, while the QT&#8217;s (6-6) settled for a fourth place seat in the tourney.<\/p>\n<p>Other competing teams include second-ranked Saipan International School Geckos (10-2), fifth-ranked MHS Awesome Fins (4-8), and seventh-place MHS KFC Fins (0-12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0The Grace Christian Academy Eagles capped a perfect 12-0 season&#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-10974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974","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=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}