{"id":186725,"date":"2014-12-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=186725"},"modified":"2014-12-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:00","slug":"cbc-shirleys-try-catch-sbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cbc-shirleys-try-catch-sbc\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC, Shirley\u2019s try to catch up with SBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_186733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186733\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"186733\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nmbapix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nmbapix.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club\u2019s Cris Hilario  prepares to make a return in his and Annette Ta\u2019s mixed doubles BB match against Taga Badminton Club\u2019s Celso Agui and Cristy Villaflor in the 8th Traders Insurance Badminton Team Tournament last week at the TSL Sports Complex. Hilario and Ta defeated Agui and Villaflor, 21-18, 16-21, 21-7. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186733\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club\u2019s Cris Hilario  prepares to make a return in his and Annette Ta\u2019s mixed doubles BB match against Taga Badminton Club\u2019s Celso Agui and Cristy Villaflor in the 8th Traders Insurance Badminton Team Tournament last week at the TSL Sports Complex. Hilario and Ta defeated Agui and Villaflor, 21-18, 16-21, 21-7. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCommunity Badminton Club and Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club try to get closer with leader Saipan Badminton Club when action in the 8th Traders Insurance Badminton Team Tournament resumes today at the TSL Sports Complex in Gualo Rai.<\/p>\n<p>CBC will face three-time defending titlist SBC on Friday and Saturday and will challenge Shirley\u2019s in the first day of their matchup on Sunday. Shirley\u2019s, on the other hand, will take on Golden Racquets before ending its campaign against CBC the following week. Taga drew a bye and will face SBC next week.<\/p>\n<p>CBC and Shirley\u2019s are currently at second and third places with 37 and 36 points, respectively, in the five-team field behind the three-time defending titlist SBC\u2019s 45 markers.<\/p>\n<p>CBC scored a 21-9 win over Taga in its first game then clinched 16 of the 30 points up for grabs against Golden Racquets last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley\u2019s, meanwhile, opened with a 13-17 decision against the four-peat seeking SBC and then pummeled Taga, 23-7, for its 36-point tally. Taga, which was in second place during the opening week, dropped to a tie for fourth and fifth with Golden Racquets with  31 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Three points are awarded to a team that wins a match in two games, while 2 points are given to the winning squad and one to its opponent if the match goes to three.<\/p>\n<p>Matches on Friday will be in the men\u2019s B, BC, A, and women\u2019s B and A divisions, while on Saturday it will be the turn of men\u2019s AB, C, and mixed BC, B and AB players.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Dec. 7, matches will be in the men\u2019s BC, AB and B, and mixed AB and C. <strong>(Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Badminton Club and Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club try to get closer with leader Saipan Badminton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":186733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,197,47,60],"class_list":["post-186725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golden-racquets","tag-gualo-rai","tag-saipan-badminton-club","tag-sbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725","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=186725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}