{"id":157277,"date":"2011-12-09T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdb44158-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-12-09T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T21:06:00","slug":"bdb44169-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bdb44169-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"AG\u2019s Sakude upsets Team CUC in Inter-Govt Bud Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AG\u2019s Sakude upset top-ranked Team CUC, 8-5, in a home draw at Jonny\u2019s Bar &#038; Grill to advance to the Saipan Dart Association\u2019s Inter-Government Bud Cup semifinals last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>CUC was easily the heavy favorite coming into the post-season tournament, finishing the regular season in first place by a whopping 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>AG\u2019s Sakude will face DYS Atdit in the semifinals, who defeated the Troubleshooters, 8-6, in a road match at Wild Bill\u2019s Bar &#038; Grill. <\/p>\n<p>The other side of the bracket includes NMC Proa playing host to DPS Enforcers at Jonny\u2019s. Both NMC and DPS were given first round byes at the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of tonight\u2019s matches will face off for the coveted Budweiser Cup on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the final tables are set for SEDA\u2019s Ladies and Master divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies League\u2019s No. 1 contender Try Luck of D\u2019Pirates Bar is in prime position to sweep the field.<\/p>\n<p>Try Luck bested Jonny\u2019s Island Girls, 8-5, on the road on Wednesday and now has to go through sister team Star Magic in next week\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a first round bye, fifth-ranked Star Magic downed bottom-feeder Daffodils, 8-4, on the road at Joe\u2019s Steakhouse for its championship berth.<\/p>\n<p>In the Master division, Es\u2019y Kitchen\u2019s IT&#038;E Kamote\u2019s made it past the M-Destroyers, 9-4, at D\u2019Pirates in its semifinal pairing and will square off against the fifth-ranked Snipers, who ousted Jonny\u2019s Azkals, 8-4, in a road game last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Frontrunner IT&#038;E Kamote\u2019s is also heavily favored to sweep the field, but all bets are off in Master division play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG\u2019s Sakude upset top-ranked Team CUC, 8-5, in a home draw at Jonny\u2019s Bar &#038; Grill to advance to the Saipan Dart Association\u2019s Inter-Government Bud Cup semifinals last Friday.<\/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-157277","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\/157277","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=157277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}