{"id":187229,"date":"2014-12-12T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187229"},"modified":"2014-12-12T04:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:00:46","slug":"shirleys-cbc-battle-second-finals-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shirleys-cbc-battle-second-finals-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley\u2019s, CBC battle for second finals berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_187232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187232\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"187232\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nmbapix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nmbapix1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Havika Farro of Community Badminton Club watches the direction of her shot during their game against Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Havika Farro of Community Badminton Club watches the direction of her shot during their game against Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club.<br \/>(Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nShirley\u2019s Badminton Club and Community Badminton Club are in a tight race for  the second finals berth heading into tonight\u2019s final play date in the 8th Traders Insurance Badminton Team Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Defending three-time champion Saipan Badminton Club is already assured of the first finals slot after collecting a whopping 80 points, leaving Shirley\u2019s and CBC to fight for the other berth.<\/p>\n<p>SBC won 20 of the 10 points offered when it played against CBC last week and then blanked Taga Badminton Club, 15-0, in the first day of their match up on Dec. 7. SBC is aiming to win a fourth straight crown.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley\u2019s currently has 62 points to enjoy a four-point edge over CBC\u2019s 58. CBC moved closer to Shirley\u2019s after posting a 12-3 score last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley\u2019s and CBC vie for second finals berth when they play matches in the mixed A, women\u2019s AB, C and BC, and men\u2019s C events. <\/p>\n<p>Golden Racquets and Taga are contesting a place in the battle for third with the former having 38 points and holding on to a seven-point lead against the latter\u2019s 31.<\/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. <strong>(Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley\u2019s Badminton Club and Community Badminton Club are in a tight race for the second&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":187232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,47,60,48],"class_list":["post-187229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golden-racquets","tag-saipan-badminton-club","tag-sbc","tag-taga-badminton-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229","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=187229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}