{"id":182971,"date":"2014-10-27T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=182971"},"modified":"2014-10-27T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:00:03","slug":"magic-8-ball-moves-top-billiards-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/magic-8-ball-moves-top-billiards-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 8 Ball moves on top of billiards league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_183010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183010\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"183010\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sbapix3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sbapix3-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Players of Jokers Homeboyz and Wild Bills Wild Wild West pose for a photo during a break in their game in SBA\u2019s Thursday league last week. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183010\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players of Jokers Homeboyz and Wild Bills Wild Wild West pose for a photo during a break in their game in SBA\u2019s Thursday league last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball moved on top of the 2014 Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday league with one month left before the season ends.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic 8 Ball dropped a 9-6 decision against the Poseidon Titans, but now enjoys a 7-win advantage over former leaders Route33 Armatech Hustlers. The Smoke Pub-backed crew holds 91-59 slate with the Hustlers dropping to second with 84-66, while Wild Bills is not too far behind at 83-67.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers also lost their match last Thursday after being ambushed by National Alamo Car Rental, 8-7, while the Jokers Home Boyz  defeated Wild Bills in similar scores.<\/p>\n<p>Only Jonny\u2019s Team SCS registered a lopsided win in the Thursday league when it dealt the Barcode Breakers an 11-4 thrashing. National Alamo Car Rental (80-70), Poseidon Titans (78-72), Jokers Homeboyz (78-72), Barcode Breakers (56-94) and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (50-100) complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tuesday league, the Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers regained the top ranking after an 11-4 victory over the Smoke Pub Lancheras.<\/p>\n<p>The Voyagers now hold a 102-48 won-loss record for a 3-win advantage over the Saipan TV Hustlers, which took the lead last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers drubbed the Jokers Str8 Shooters, 10-5, to improve to a 99-51 record and remain within striking distance of the Voyagers.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 edged Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang, 8-7, in the other match. The Str8 Shooters (89-61), Crazy 8 (75-75), Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang (60-90) and Lancheras (25-125) complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>The league will play three more weeks for the finals and the Budweiser Cup after the seven-week regular season. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball moved on top of the 2014 Saipan Billiards Association&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":183010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182971","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\/182971","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=182971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}