{"id":177324,"date":"2014-08-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=177324"},"modified":"2014-08-25T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:00:00","slug":"lee-clinches-u14-crown-pojc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lee-clinches-u14-crown-pojc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee clinches U14 crown in POJC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carol Lee, seen here competing in the 2014 White Coconut Classic early this year at the AMP tennis courts, won the girls U14 singles crown in the 2014 Pacific Oceania Junior Championship in Fiji last Friday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nCarol Lee bagged the girls U14 singles championship in the 2014 Pacific Oceania Junior Championships after sweeping her finals opponent last Friday in Lautoka Fiji.<\/p>\n

Lee was paired against New Caledonia\u2019s Leo Bolo and won the battle of the Top 2 seeds in the division with a straight set victory, 6-0, 6-2. With Lee\u2019s triumph, she gave the CNMI its lone gold medal in the singles play and duplicated her feat last year. Lee clinched the girls U12 singles last year and also handed the Commonwealth its only first place finish in the annual competition.<\/p>\n

The 13-year-old Lee boosted her chances for a second age group championship in POJC after slipping past Fiji\u2019s Ruby Coffin in the semifinals last Thursday, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4. Bolo also defeated a Fijian bet in Vienna Kumar, 6-0, 6-2, to earn the right to face the top-ranked Lee. Coffin went on to win third place after sweeping Kumar in the consolation match, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the 10 other CNMI players in the POJC also completed their singles games last Friday.<\/p>\n

In the boys U14 singles, Luther Lizama settled for fourth place after dropping his consolation game to Tahiti\u2019s Honoarii Joutain, 4-6, 0-6. American\u2019s Samoa\u2019s Larry Maglasan won the division after a 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 triumph over Samoa\u2019s Michael Emery. Still in the U14 singles, girls division, Tania Tan beat Ami Tsukagoshi to place seventh, while the latter dropped to eighth, followed by Julia Ishikawa at ninth.<\/p>\n

In the U12 singles, both Malika Miyawaki and Robbie Schorr fell to their respective opponents. Schorr fought Kitibati\u2019s Banien Ioera in the third place match and was outclassed in three sets. Schorr prevailed in the opening set, 6-4, but Ioera won the last two to steal the victory, 7-6, 10-3. Tahiti\u2019s Gillian Osmont topped the division after outlasting Vanuatu\u2019s Clement Mainguy, 4-6, 6-3, 10-3, while the CNMI\u2019s other bet in the division, Ken Song finished eight after losing to Fiji\u2019s Maui Leflon, 4-6, 3-6.<\/p>\n

In the girls U12 singles, Miyawaki missed the Top 3 after falling short against Samoa\u2019s Eleanor Schuster, 7-5, 5-7, 5-10. Naia Guitton nailed the division crown after sweeping the all-Tahiti title match against Lea Lamorelle, 6-2, 6-2. The CNMI\u2019s two other entries in the age group\u2014Conatsu Kaga and Asia Raulerson\u2014ended up at sixth and ninth place, respectively. Kaga dropped her last match against eventual fifth placer Rosalie Molballeh of Vanuaty, 4-6, 5-7, while Raulerson won over Fiji\u2019s Saoirse Breen, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Colin Ramsey also prevailed in his last game in POJC, downing Fiji\u2019s Shivneel Chan, 6-4, 6-3, to place 11th in the boys U16 singles.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, results of the overall championship have yet to be released. The 11 CNMI players were part of the North Pacific Team that competed against the West and East squads. The overall championship will be given to the group with the most points at the end of the singles and doubles competitions. Points are awarded based on how players finished in their respective events. The West delegates won last year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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