{"id":18569,"date":"2011-09-20T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2011-09-20T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:38:47","slug":"3-pairs-gain-semis-seats-at-shirleys-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-pairs-gain-semis-seats-at-shirleys-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"3 pairs gain semis seats at Shirley&#8217;s Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Roselyn Monroyo<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns112766.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Guintu serves during his and Hannah Choi's mixed doubles AA game against Angie Ito and Andrew Galvez in Week 2 of the 2011 Shirley's Badminton Classic at the TSL Sports Complex. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\" width=\"67\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Three pairs are already assured of semis tickets in the mixed doubles AA division of the 2011 Shirley&#8217;s Badminton Classic after Week 3 of the competition at the TSL Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes the tandems of Angie Ito and Andrew Galvez, Dick Guintu and Hannah Choi, and Ferdie Arago and Lani Bartolome. Ito and Galvez currently lead the eight-team field with their unbeaten 6-0 record. The pacesetters notched two wins in Week 3 and are a win away from sweeping the round-robin elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Galvez and Ito&#8217;s last match in their group will be against Hapi Gabriel and Malou Malasarte tomorrow night. A win will give the leaders the automatic finals berth, while a loss will still put them in the No. 1 seeding in the playoffs. Only the Top 4 teams will advance to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Guintu and Choi joined Galvez and Ito in the playoffs with the former holding a 4-1 record with two games left. Arago and Bartolome hold a 4-2 card to notch the third semis berth. Guintu and Choi&#8217;s last two matches will be against Marlene Peraja and Macoi Aguda and Jerry Hibi and Annarose Omori. Arago and Bartolome will also challenge Peraja and Aguda in their last match.<\/p>\n<p>Aguda and Peraja (2-2), Hibi and Omori (3-3), and Gabriel and Malasarte (2-3) will battle for the last semis berth this weekend. Mario Diola and Toshiko Obata (0-6) and Edwin Montoya and Cheng Saturno (1-6) are already eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>In the mixed doubles lower A, only Gary Bandoja and Choi are assured of a semis spot. The duo owns a perfect 5-0 record with three games left in the nine-team field. A sweep of the round-robin competition will also give Bandoja and Choi an outright finals berth.<\/p>\n<p>Three other teams have strong chances of making the semis cast. They are Malasarte and Robert Reyes (4-1) and Arago and Annette Quiambao and Guintu and Obata, who hold similar 3-1 slates. Galvez and Merlie Tolentino and Rodwealth Espana and Angie Ito are still in contention with their identical 3-3 cards.<\/p>\n<p>Results of standings of the mixed doubles 40-and-above, BB, and CC divisions will be published in Saipan Tribune&#8217;s Wednesday issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roselyn Monroyo Reporter \u00a0Three pairs are already assured of semis tickets in the mixed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}