{"id":177945,"date":"2014-09-01T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=177945"},"modified":"2014-09-01T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:00:13","slug":"tight-race-seen-thursday-tuesday-8-ball-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tight-race-seen-thursday-tuesday-8-ball-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight race seen for Thursday, Tuesday 8-ball leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tight race is expected to heat up for the 2014 Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday League with the Poseidon Titans and the Jokers Homeboyz kicking off their respective title bids with victories over their separate opponents in Thursday last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans and Homeboyz are currently tied on top of the Thursday league standings with equal 10-5 won-loss slates.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans will host the Homeboyz today with both teams aiming to break the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Bill\u2019s Wild Wild West is one game behind (9-6) and followed closely by Smoke Pub Magic 8-Ball\u2019s 8-7 mark and the 7-8 card of National Alamo Car Rental.<\/p>\n<p>Barcode Breakers (6-9) and Route33 Armatech Masters and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (5-10 each), despite at the lower half of the standings, are still in title contention in the 14-week league that ends on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday league, meanwhile, has a three-way tie with Jokers Str8 Shooters and sister team IT&#038;E Voyagers, and Jonnys Crazy 8 all holding 19-11 marks.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang and Saipan TV Hustler are tied from second to third spots with 13-17 cards, while Smoke Pub Lanchun Girls is at the bottom of the standings at 7-23.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday League games on Sept. 2 will have the Voyagers, Lanchun Girls, and Hustlers hosting the Crazy 8, Shooters and Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang, respectively, in the home-and-away format. <strong>(Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tight race is expected to heat up for the 2014 Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177945","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}