{"id":156416,"date":"2011-11-04T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bd8f6d49-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-11-04T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:30:00","slug":"bd8f6d59-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bd8f6d59-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaliga wins King of the Table 8-ball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nolas Kaliga edged Patrick Cepeda to win Sunday\u2019s King of the Table 8-ball Tournament at 19th Hole.<\/p>\n<p>The tilt used a round-robin format with the winner scoring one point each turn he held the table.  The loser was given another chance to come back later and rack up points.<\/p>\n<p>Noran Tenorio, Edward Suzuki and Ron Chisato finished in a three-way tie for third place.  Suzuki took a tiebreaker from Chisato to grab third.  Thinking he wouldn\u2019t place, Tenorio had already gone home.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliga ran off five wins to start the match before Tenorio took him off the table.  Cepeda won five in a row when his turn came, then fell to Kun M. Ka\u2019ainoa.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliga beat Ka\u2019ainoa, but Taylor Watanabe made him sit down.  Cepeda fell to Chisato in a close match when he came back to the table, leaving him in second place and one point behind.  It was sweet revenge for Chisato who had a chance to end Cepeda\u2019s winning streak in his first time up but short-stroked an easy 8-ball in the side pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Chisato also stopped Cepeda\u2019s Sunday tournament winning streak two weeks ago, winning in the first round and going on to take first place.<\/p>\n<p>Noa O. Ka\u2019ainoa, Leonard Sablan and Cliffton Silil rounded out the field.<\/p>\n<p>The entry fee was $5 and 19th Hole added $20 to make the pot bigger.  First and second place winners split the pot and trophies went to first to fifth place winners.  There was also a raffle for four buckets of beer.<\/p>\n<p>Round-robin action continues Thursday through Sunday to earn points for the Nov. 23 Marianas Turkey Shoot.  Fifteen maximum points are needed to earn entry to MTS competition. Entry fee is $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the tournament. Players can start paying their partial entry fees to Rose or Ken until Nov. 22.  Frozen turkey, cash to the Top 3 finishers, and trophies for the Top 5 will be awarded.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 788-5929 after 4 pm. [B][I](PR)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolas Kaliga edged Patrick Cepeda to win Sunday\u2019s King of the Table 8-ball Tournament at 19th Hole.<\/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-156416","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\/156416","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=156416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}