{"id":179907,"date":"2014-09-23T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=179907"},"modified":"2014-09-23T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:00:51","slug":"hustlers-grab-top-ranking-sba-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hustlers-grab-top-ranking-sba-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustlers grab top ranking in SBA league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_179913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179913\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"179913\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Saipan-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Saipan-pix2-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Smoke Pub Lanchera Girls members remain in high spirits despite languishing at the bottom of the standings in the 2014 Budweiser Tuesday 8-Ball Billiards League. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179913\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smoke Pub Lanchera Girls members remain in high spirits despite languishing at the bottom of the standings in the 2014 Budweiser Tuesday 8-Ball Billiards League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nRoute 33 Armatech Hustlers found little resistance against erstwhile co-leader Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball to grab sole possession of the top ranking in the 2014 Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday Billiards League held last week in various bars on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers posted a 10-5 win over Magic 8 Ball to hike their record to 47-28 and in the process relegating their opponents to third at 42-33. Jokers Homeboyz is currently at second place (43-32).<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back wins by Rowel Mariano and Simeon Kapileo sealed the deal for Armatech as their victories against Magi 8 Ball\u2019s Rodel dela Cruz and Rey Hermogenes for an 8-4 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>All matches need to be completed as each win and loss will have an affect on the standings. Armatech won two of the last three doubles games.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Bill\u2019s Wild Wild West (40-35), Poseidon Titans (38-37), Barcode Breakers (34-41), Round Two National Alamo Car Rental (33-42), and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (23-52) completed the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In other Thursday contests, Wild Bill\u2019s, Homeboyz, and Titans each pulled off similar 8-7 wins over Round Two, SCS, and Breakers.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday League action, the Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers scored an easy 13-2 decision over the Smoke Pub Lanchera Girls to pad its lead, 56-19, over closest pursuer and the second-running Saipan TV Hustlers, 49-26.<\/p>\n<p>The Jokers Str8 Shooters are in close third at 47-28 after absorbing an 8-7 loss at the hands of the Hustlers.<\/p>\n<p>The Jhonny\u2019s Crazy 8 came in fourth at 37-28 following a 10-5 dumping of Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019 Gang.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke Pub remains in fifth place with a 22-53 slate, while the Lanchera Girls are at the cellar with a 14-61 card. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route 33 Armatech Hustlers found little resistance against erstwhile co-leader Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":179913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1204,1034],"class_list":["post-179907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sba","tag-scs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179907","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=179907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}