{"id":18657,"date":"2011-09-21T07:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2011-09-21T07:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:01:46","slug":"miso-leagues-start-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/miso-leagues-start-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"MISO leagues start next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization will be kicking off the boys volleyball and girls basketball leagues next month.<\/p>\n<p>Six teams make up this year&#8217;s boys volleyball competition, which is set to tip off on Oct. 3 at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Four games will be played in the opening day of the boys volleyball league with Grace Christian Academy taking on MHS 1 on the north end and MHS 2 meeting Saipan Southern High School on the south court at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Then at 5pm, Saipan International School duels Kagman High School on the north side, while both MHS squads will battle it out on the south end.<\/p>\n<p>Boys volleyball games will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays with two teams pulling double duty in rotation per round.<\/p>\n<p>Regular season matches in the boys volleyball will run throughout October, while the playoff round will be held from Nov. 8 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The KHS Ayuyus are the three-time defending champions and will be looking to extend their reign in the boys league. Kagmang swept MHS 1 in the finals last season, 25-12, 25-18.<\/p>\n<p>The four-team girls basketball league is set to start on Oct. 4 with the SIS Lady Geckos squaring off against the Kagman Lady Ayuyus.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Dolphins of MHS and the Lady Manta Rays of Southern are the other two competing teams in the varsity division, which will be played beginning at 5:30p after the junior varsity tiff at 4:30pm. Since Kagman, MHS, and Southern are the only squads participating in the junior varsity division, teams playing SIS in the varsity will have their games starting at 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Girls basketball matches will be played every Tuesday and Thursday and regular season games will run through Nov. 15. The Lady Dolphins are this season&#8217;s defending champions, spoiling Kagman&#8217;s bid for a fourth straight title after a 70-33 victory in the finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting tonight at Southern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, separate organizational meetings are scheduled tonight at Saipan Southern High School. The girls basketball and boys volleyball meetings are set for 5pm and 5:45pm, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization will be kicking off the boys&#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-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","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=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}