{"id":15146,"date":"2011-10-13T01:46:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2011-10-13T01:46:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:46:01","slug":"garapan-to-host-blue-haus-finals-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/garapan-to-host-blue-haus-finals-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Garapan to host Blue Haus finals Sunday"},"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\/issx9999ns113393.jpg\" alt=\"MBI's Noel David slashes to the hoop in their Blue Haus caging playoff game against Cell Pro last Sept. 19 at the Gualo Rai Basketball Court.  (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"76\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0The Blue Haus Invitational Basketball League championship tiff set between Cell Pro and Micronesian Brokers, Inc. will take place at the Garapan Basketball Court at 7pm this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The awards presentation will be held after conclusion of the finale match.<\/p>\n<p>The league has postponed the finals due to rains.<\/p>\n<p>While games were played on Gualo Rai up to this point, organizers moved the finals to Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Haus league started with 21 teams divided into three separate divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked MBI went undefeated in the A division and knocked off Cell Pro and third finalist, Sherwin Williams, in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>MBI kept extending its flawless streak into the playoffs with a 71-66 triumph over Sherwin Williams last Sept. 16 and went on to boast a solid 71-59 victory over Cell Pro in their first meeting last Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Cell Pro, however, would rebound and eliminated Sherwin Williams, 75-71, last Sept. 23 to earn another shot at the top seed.<\/p>\n<p>To make thing even more interesting, organizers have since lifted MBI&#8217;s twice-to beat advantage and thus Sunday&#8217;s game will be played for all the marbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0The Blue Haus Invitational Basketball League championship tiff set between&#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-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","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=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}