{"id":187132,"date":"2014-12-11T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187132"},"modified":"2014-12-11T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:24","slug":"sbc-way-clinching-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sbc-way-clinching-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"SBC on its way to clinching top seed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saipan Badminton Club\u2019s Han Cheol Yu prepares to serve during their game against Community Badminton Club. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nDefending three-time champion Saipan Badminton Club is on its way to clinching the first finals berth in the 8th Traders Insurance Badminton Team Tournament.<\/p>\n

SBC, aiming to win a fourth straight crown, has already collected 58 markers for a 12-point advantage over second running Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club\u2019s 46. Community Badminton Club, last week\u2019s second placer, fell to third with 39 markers. 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

SBC faced CBC in last week\u2019s matches at the TSL Sports Complex in Gualo Rai and quickly collected 9 points after successive 2-game wins in the men\u2019s B, BC and A divisions, respectively.<\/p>\n

Yun Jun Lee and Han Cheol Yu started things off for SBC, as they easily overpowered CBC newcomers John Costales and Owen Ou, 21-9, 21-6. Daniel Kim and Jongmin Lee followed it up with a hard-earned 21-18, 21-18 decision over the pair of Zeke Macario and Jeremi Montenejo.<\/p>\n

Glenn Buultjens, the Northern Marianas Sports Association November Male Athlete of the Month, teamed up with Sam Jones in completing a 21-18, 21-14 win over CBC pair Andreau Galvez and Jordan Pangilinan.<\/p>\n

Buultjens and Jones, in both games, trailed as Galvez and Pangelinan had a little help from their unforced errors. The SBC pair, down 14-9 in the second game, dug deep from their bag of tricks by scoring 12 straight points to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Havika Farro and Nicole Malasarte gave CBC its first and only win after escaping with a 21-18, 17-21, 21-14 victory over SBC\u2019s Dianne Francisco and Rowena Sison.<\/p>\n

Hannah Choi, in the last match of the day, exacted some sort of revenge as she partnered with Marlene Pareja in dealing Janelle Pangilinan and Jen Savellano a 21-17, 21-17 drubbing. Choi with Sison as her partner squandered their twice-to-beat edge and lost to Pangilinan and Savellano in the finals of last month\u2019s Tan Holdings Open 2014 badminton tournament.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s overtook CBC at second place after a 10-5 tally against Golden Racquets. The pairs of Hapi Gabriel and Macoi Aguda and Lani Bartolome and Windy Fernandez gave Shirley\u2019s 3 points each in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s A doubles. Gabriel and Aguda downed Gary Bandoja and Edwin Maratas, 21-16, 21-18, while Bartolome and Fernandez tripped Ana Omori and Cheng Saturno, 21-16, 21-17.<\/p>\n

The tandem of Lucelle Lampera and Marylyn Montano gave Golden Racquets its lone win after posting a 21-13, 21-17 triumph over Jaja Bocago and Annette Ta in the women\u2019s doubles B. Shirley\u2019s scored 2-1 wins in the men\u2019s B and men\u2019s BC divisions. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defending three-time champion Saipan Badminton Club is on its way to clinching the first finals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":187139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,157,129,60],"class_list":["post-187132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golden-racquets","tag-hannah-choi","tag-sam-jones","tag-sbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187132","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=187132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}