Saipan Baseball League coordinator Tony Rogolifoi will be holding a Level I umpiring certification course starting tonight at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium conference room.<\/p>\n
The five-day session starts at 5:30pm and Rogolifoi is calling on individuals interested in joining the umpiring ranks to attend the 10-hour course.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m inviting everyone and other interested parties to join this important event. We need a lot of help in this area\u2014umpiring\u2014particularly for the local Little League program,\u201d said Rogolifoi, who also encourages team managers and coaches to join the umpiring course.<\/p>\n
In related news, the new SBL season is set to open on Jan. 12, with the defending champion Brewers opening up their title bid against the Fielders.<\/p>\n
The North Starz, A\u2019s, Jets, and Falcons are the other competing teams in the 2015 season. Games will be played every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:30pm at the Francisco M. \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios baseball field.<\/p>\n
Rogolifoi said the the league could still accept one or two more teams provided they will join at least one week before the opening of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there are still interested teams out there they should call and inform me immediately. We could still accommodate one or two teams,\u201d said Rogolifoi.<\/p>\n
He added that interested teams must turn in a copy of their 25-man rosters and waiver forms, prepare their own uniforms, and pay the $1,000 entrance fee.<\/p>\n
For more information, call Rogolifoi at 234-6672. (Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saipan Baseball League coordinator Tony Rogolifoi will be holding a Level I umpiring certification course…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,1301,731,1258],"class_list":["post-187628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ada-gymnasium","tag-little-league","tag-sbl","tag-tony-rogolifoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628","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=187628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}