{"id":178071,"date":"2014-09-02T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=178071"},"modified":"2014-09-02T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:00:45","slug":"magic-8-ball-grabs-lead-thursday-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/magic-8-ball-grabs-lead-thursday-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 8-ball grabs lead in Thursday league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_178074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178074\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"178074\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Saipan-Billiards-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Saipan-Billiards-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Poseidon Titans are in a tight race for the Saipan Billiards Association 2014 Budweiser Thursday 8-Ball League crown. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178074\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Poseidon Titans are in a tight race for the Saipan Billiards Association 2014 Budweiser Thursday 8-Ball League crown. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSmoke Pub Magic 8-Ball seized the overall lead to signify its intention of battling for the crown in the weekly 2014 Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday League held last Thursday in various bars on the island.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke Pub, which was in fourth place a few weeks ago, racked up 13 wins to improve to 21-9 to relegate early leader Poseidon Titans to second place (20-10).<\/p>\n<p>National Alamo Car Rental, which was fifth last week, climbed to third at 17-13 while Route 33 Armatech Hustler and Joker Homeboyz are tied from fourth to fifth with 15-15 records making the race to the title tighter.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Bill\u2019s Wild Wild West (14-16), Barcode Breakers (11-19) and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (7-3) are the other competing teams.<\/p>\n<p>Jokers Str8 Shooters, in the Tuesday league, is joined by sister team IT&#038;E Voyagers, and Jonnys Crazy 8 on top of the six-team field with 19-11 marks.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang and Saipan TV Hustler are tied from fourth to fifth 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 Hustler 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>Smoke Pub Magic 8-Ball seized the overall lead to signify its intention of battling for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":178074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178071","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=178071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}