{"id":15258,"date":"2011-10-14T02:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2011-10-14T02:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:28:59","slug":"shark-attack-seizes-top-spot-in-obyan-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shark-attack-seizes-top-spot-in-obyan-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Attack seizes top spot in Obyan Division"},"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\/issx9999ns113423.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Bill's Bar &amp; Grill's Shark Attack, seen here in a file photo, defeated 19th Hole Bar's Poksu, 5-2, to step alone in first place in the Obyan Division after the conclusion of last Tuesday's SBA 2011 Budweiser Summer\/Fall 8-Ball League matchups. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Wild Bill&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s Shark Attack toppled erstwhile Obyan Division top dog Pirata of D&#8217;Pirates Bar as the Saipan Billiard Association&#8217;s 2012 Budweiser Summer\/Fall Open 8-Ball League season continued last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Agingan Division pairings resulted in a trio of lopsided road wins with current leader IT&amp;E Voyagers maintaining control over the field.<\/p>\n<p>Shark Attack manhandled 19th Hole Bar&#8217;s Poksu (25-24), 5-2, at home to improve its win-loss card to 30-19. Shark Attack now holds the No. 1 spot by a game over Pirata, which also came out a winner, defeating 19th Hole&#8217;s Titans (19-30), 4-3, on the road. The frontrunners were tied coming into Tuesday&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Jonny&#8217;s Crazy 8 pulled off an upset over sister team Team SCS, 4-3, in a home draw; the pair is now tied for fourth place in the standings with identical records of 22-27.<\/p>\n<p>Pirata will have home field advantage this Tuesday when they take on Shark Attack, while Poksu welcomes Crazy 8 and Team SCS plays host to the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked IT&amp;E Voyagers along with sister team IT&amp;E Incredibles and the Docomo Hustlers trudged forward in the Agingan Division standings after notching a set of 6-1 victories over separate opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s IT&amp;E Voyagers remained nine games ahead of the pack after dropping Jonny&#8217;s Home Boyz Five (23-26), 6-1, in a road draw and now boasts a record of 39-10.<\/p>\n<p>Utopia Bar&#8217;s Docomo Hustlers still clings to second place by a game after storming into Joe&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s and knocking off Fotten Palau (9-40), 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The third-ranked IT&amp;E Incredibles (29-20), of Sand&#8217;s Bar, also kept hot on the trail thanks to a 6-1 thumping of VFW Post 3457&#8217;s X-Tream (17-32) on the road.<\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday, the IT&amp;E Voyagers hosts X-Tream on Tuesday; the Docomo Hustlers call on the Home Boyz Five; and the IT&amp;E Incredibles welcome Fotten Palau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Wild Bill&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s Shark Attack toppled erstwhile Obyan&#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-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","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=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}