{"id":186480,"date":"2014-12-03T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=186480"},"modified":"2014-12-03T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:00:30","slug":"hustlers-voyagers-vie-tuesday-billiards-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hustlers-voyagers-vie-tuesday-billiards-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustlers, Voyagers to vie for Tuesday billiards crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_186486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"186486\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sbapix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sbapix1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the IT&amp;E Voyagers and the Jokers Str8 Shooters pose for a group photo after an elimination round game earlier in the Budweiser Open 8-Ball Tuesday League. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186486\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the IT&#038;E Voyagers and the Jokers Str8 Shooters pose for a group photo after an elimination round game earlier in the Budweiser Open 8-Ball Tuesday League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Smoke Pub Saipan TV Hustlers gave the Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers a free ride to their final matchup after beating the latter\u2019s sister team, Str8 Shooters, in the Budweiser Open 8-Ball Tuesday League.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers foiled the Str8 Shooters\u2019 chances of clinching the No. 2 ranking after an 8-7 decision last week,  giving the Voyagers, who won by default against the Smoke Pub Lancheras, the second championship berth.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers finished the elimination round with a league-best 151-74 record or one win ahead of the Voyagers\u2019 150-75 slate.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers hosted the visiting Voyagers at the Smoke Pub bar in Garapan for the battle for the first and second places. Matches were being played at press time.<\/p>\n<p>The Str8 Shooters settled for third (141-84) and were battling Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 (109-116) for the third place trophy last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Crazy 8 ended its season with an 8-7 decision over Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang in the other featured match.<\/p>\n<p>The Sang&#038;D\u2019Gang (91-134) and the Lancheras (33-192), both supported by Smoke Pub, complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the finals between the Route33 Armatech Hustlers and the Smoke Pub Magic 8 Ball in the Thursday League will be played tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers finished the season with the league\u2019s best record of 126-84, followed closely by the Magic 8 Ball\u2019s 125-85 card. The Jokers Homboyz (122-88) and Wild Bills (111-99) will clash for the third place honors. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoke Pub Saipan TV Hustlers gave the Jokers IT&#038;E Voyagers a free ride to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":186486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186480","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\/186480","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=186480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}