{"id":11864,"date":"2011-11-21T05:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2011-11-21T05:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:11:29","slug":"scs-mhs-continue-run-in-all-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/scs-mhs-continue-run-in-all-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"SCS, MHS continue run in All Schools"},"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\/issx9999ns114375.jpg\" alt=\"Beouch Ngirchongor raises his hands in triumph as he, and Mike Mancao and Charles Bautista near the finish line of the final leg of the All School cross-country series at the American Memorial Park last Saturday. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"78\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Saipan Community School and Marianas High School completed another successful run in the third leg of the Northern Marianas Athletics All Schools Cross-Country Series held at the American Memorial Park last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>SCS swept the boys U12 race with Elnathan Wong crossing the finish line first with a time of 17:43. His schoolmates, Nael Lim and Kento Akimaru, came in at second and third with times of 19:26 and 19:34, respectively. Runners in the U12 and U14 divisions raced in a 4.5-kilometer course.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls U12, Shirley Qian also of SCS timed in at 25:11 to beat Hopwood Junior High School&#8217;s Dohyen Kwon (28:03).<\/p>\n<p>Another SCS bet, Kui Lee, (18:42) finished ahead of Hopwood&#8217;s Carmelino Garcia (20:37) in the boys U14, while Hopwood&#8217;s Mikayla Lopez (19:14) surpassed teammate Rumina Litulimar (25:29) in another head-to-head U14 race.<\/p>\n<p>In he U18 division race that featured a grueling 9-km course, Beouch Ngirchongor outsprinted MHS teammates Michael Mancao and Charles Bautista in a neck-and-neck finish. Ngirchongor posted 33:59 to sneak past Mancao&#8217;s 33:59.5 and Bautista&#8217;s even 34:00. Eleven runners competed in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Obaldo also of MHS breezed past six runners in the girls with an impressive time of 43:57. She finished almost five minutes ahead of runner-up Clarisse Cayabyab (48:46), while third placer Lourdes Seman (51:17) fended off a late surge down the homestretch by Francine Sablan (51:18). MHS made up the entire U18 girls field.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NMA also held races in the U8 and U10 divisions (3-km course).<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U8 division, Kagman Elementary School&#8217;s Koen Kabiriel bested a field of five with a time of 8:04, ahead of Saipan Community School&#8217;s Jason (8:045) and Jon Paul Sablan (8:05).<\/p>\n<p>Whispering Palms School&#8217;s Logan Mister topped a boys U10 field, clocking in at 7:00. SCS&#8217;s Ken Sogg (7:48) and Grace Christian Academy&#8217;s Haruya Eda (7:59) finished second and third. Lone U10 girls competitor, Garapan Elementary School&#8217;s Joshalyn Flores, finished the course in 9:13.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for NMA is the All Schools cross-country championship set for Dec. 3 with the venue to be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Saipan Community School and Marianas High School completed another successful&#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-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","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=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}