{"id":121187,"date":"2008-03-26T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/af7160d4-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2008-03-26T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:27:00","slug":"af7160e8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/af7160e8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Action heats up in spring volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second day of action in the 2008 Spring Break Volleyball Festival continued yesterday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium with three teams remaining undefeated in three divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Powerpuffs, Umangs, and Hilitai are still undefeated after yesterday\u2019s games. Powerpuffs have yet to lose after four games in the girls\u2019 18-and-under division, while Umangs are on top at the 12-and-under boys with an 8-0 card and Hilitai with a 4-0 mark in the Under 14 girls.<\/p>\n<p>Powerpuffs scored their fourth straight win with a 25-20, 25-19 win over Kagman High School, while Umangs went on a four-game rampage in the boys\u2019 12-and-under first scoring a win against Koblerville Elementary School, 25-19, 25-14.<\/p>\n<p>Umangs then defeated Hopwood Junior High School Galuphas, 25-14, 26-24, then won by forfeit against Team Tokka. They closed out their campaign with a 25-21, 25-17 win over Gaga.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, KES whipped Whispering Palms School, 25-13, 25-14 in the 12-and-under boys division, while the WPS girls\u2019 Under-12 team downed Bwii Bwiis, 25-15, 25-20.<\/p>\n<p>Bwii Bwiis bounced back in the girls\u2019 12-and-under when they pounded Mini Marshmellows, 25-11, 25-4.<\/p>\n<p>The HJHS Under-14 girls defeated Bwii Bwiis, 25-9, 25-17, with UR Mom dominating Mini Marshmellows, 25-1, 25-13. In the girls\u2019 18-and-under, GWF scored a hard-earned 25-223, 25-21 win over Saipan Southern High School while KHS beat Tinian, 25-19, 25-14 <\/p>\n<p>Matches in the boys\u2019 18-and-under saw Brotherhood winning its two games against the Kings, 25-19, 25-23, and Pwang, 25-12, 25-16. The Kings came back with a 25-21, 25-17 triumph over KHS, while Pwang scored a 25-18, 25-18 decision against Tinian to ease the pain of its loss against Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>KHS bested Kontenders, 25-18, 25-22, in the 18-and-under boys, while Tinian tripped GWF, 25-21, 27-25, in the girls side.<\/p>\n<p>Hilitai and Okies drew their match as both team won one set each. Okies won the first set, 25-12, while Hilitai rebounded with a 26-24 decision in the second frame.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six teams divided into three age divisions in the boys and girls class will be fighting for the titles in the four-day tournament, which ends on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association is organizing the tournament in cooperation with the Division of Youth Services and Division of Sports and Recreation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second day of action in the 2008 Spring Break Volleyball Festival continued yesterday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium with three teams remaining undefeated in three divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121187","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=121187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}