{"id":16006,"date":"2011-10-21T05:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=16006"},"modified":"2011-10-21T05:36:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:36:02","slug":"youth-league-playoffs-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/youth-league-playoffs-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth league playoffs tomorrow"},"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\/issx9999ns113601.jpg\" alt=\"Titanium's Manny Flores, seen here in a file photo, waits for a pitch in a regular season game against the Kagman Lions at  the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield. (Walter Sutherland)\" width=\"78\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Saipan Major League Baseball Association&#8217;s 2011 Summer\/Fall Youth League will have the opening round of its postseason page-system playoffs tomorrow at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n<p>The first game is set for 10am between top-ranked Fielders 2 and the second-seeded Ol&#8217;Aces where the winner automatically advances to the championship match. Then at 1pm, the third-ranked Fielders 3 square off against Titanium in a win-or-go-home duel.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs conclude next Saturday, Oct. 29, with the losing team from Game 1 challenging the winner of Game 2 for a berth into the finals, which is scheduled at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetual championship trophy will be awarded immediately after the finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National team softball fundraiser\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SMLBA and the CNMI National Baseball team, meanwhile, are hosting a fundraiser softball tournament on Nov. 11 and 12 at the Capital Hill Ballfield.<\/p>\n<p>The event aims to help defray both some of SML&#8217;s operational costs and pay outstanding obligations the gold medal team incurred from the 2011 Pacific Games.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are hoping to enlist at least 10 teams for the event.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance fee is set at $100; checks are to be made out to the SMLBA.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information can be obtained through any CNMI national team player or by contacting CNMI nationals manager and SMLBA official Tony Rogolifoi at 288-5426.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Saipan Major League Baseball Association&#8217;s 2011 Summer\/Fall Youth League will&#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-16006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006","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=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}