{"id":182395,"date":"2014-10-20T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=182395"},"modified":"2014-10-20T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:00:47","slug":"hustlers-slam-magic-8-ball-gain-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hustlers-slam-magic-8-ball-gain-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustlers slam Magic 8 Ball to gain distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_182402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182402\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"182402\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sbapix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sbapix2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IT&amp;E Voyagers &amp; Smoke Pub Sang &amp; the Gang players pose for a photo during a break in their game in the SBA 8-Ball league last week. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-182402\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IT&#038;E Voyagers &#038; Smoke Pub Sang &#038; the Gang players pose for a photo during a break in their game in the SBA 8-Ball league last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Saipan TV Hustlers dominated Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball the entire match to complete a lopsided 12-3 win in last Thursday\u2019s 2014 Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball League.<\/p>\n<p>The victory allowed the Hustlers to  gain more cushion against Magic 8 Ball, which earlier cut the Smoke Pub-backed team\u2019s lead to one win. The Hustlers now hold a league-best 85-50 card, while Magic 8 Ball remained in second spot at 75-60.<\/p>\n<p>The Jokers Homeboyz edged Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8, 9-6, but are 11 wins behind Magic 8 Ball for second place.<\/p>\n<p>The Homeboyz have already compiled a 64-56 won-loss record, with still six weeks to go in the league. The Crazy 8 dropped to 37-83.<\/p>\n<p>The Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers drubbed Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang, 10-5, in the other Thursday league match.<\/p>\n<p>After the seven-week regular season, the league will play an additional three more weeks for the finals and the Budweiser Cup. <strong>(Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan TV Hustlers dominated Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball the entire match to complete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":182397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1204],"class_list":["post-182395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182395","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=182395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}