{"id":183789,"date":"2014-11-04T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=183789"},"modified":"2014-11-04T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:00:43","slug":"exciting-finale-seen-thursday-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/exciting-finale-seen-thursday-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting finale seen in Thursday league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball and Route33 Armatech Hustlers scored similar lopsided wins last week but the former remained on top of the 2014 Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball\u2019s Thursday league.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183792\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"183792\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Armatech-Hustler-Jonnys-Team-SCS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Armatech-Hustler-Jonnys-Team-SCS-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Players of Armatech Hustlers and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS pose for a photo before their game in the Thursday league last week. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183792\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players of Armatech Hustlers and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS pose for a photo before their game in the Thursday league last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Magic 8 Ball continues to hold the fort with a 102-63 win-loss record after breezing through the Barcode Breakers, 11-4. The Smoke Pub-backed squad holds a five-win edge over former leaders Armatech Hustlers,  and with less than three weeks left in the regular season, expect both teams to go all out in targeting more wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers scored a 13-2 triumph over Jonny\u2019s Team SCS to improve their record to 97-68, six wins ahead of Wild Bills (91-74).<\/p>\n<p>Fourth running Jokers Homeboyz (90-75) drubbed National Alamo Car Rental, 12-3, while Wild Bill\u2019s eked out an 8-7 decision against the Poseidon Titans. The Titans (85-80), National Alamo (83-92), Breakers (60-105) and Team SCS (52-113) complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tuesday league, the Saipan TV Hustlers and the Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers are currently tied for the top ranking after colliding last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers pulled off a 9-6 win against the Voyagers, but it wasn\u2019t enough to put them in solo first place as both squads compiled a 108-57 mark after 165 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Jokers Str8 Shooters are in third place with a 101-64 slate after completing a 12-3 thrashing of Smoke Pub Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang. Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 also had an easy outing against the Smoke Pub Lancheras, 12-3. Crazy 8 (87-78), Sang&#038;D\u2019gang (63-102) and Lancheras (28-137) are the other competing teams in the Tuesday league.<\/p>\n<p>Only two more play dates in the seven-week regular season are left before the league begin the finals and the Budweiser Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball and Route33 Armatech Hustlers scored similar lopsided wins last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":183792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183789","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\/183789","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=183789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}