{"id":189849,"date":"2015-01-20T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=189849"},"modified":"2015-01-20T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:00:28","slug":"5-teams-stay-contention-rocball-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/5-teams-stay-contention-rocball-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"5 teams stay in contention for Rocball crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only five teams are left to battle for the championship in the 2015 Rocball League.<\/p>\n<p>Still standing after eight rounds and 40 regular season games are the Benchwarmers, Local Motion, Veterans, Oba Squirt, and Teachers, while G.V.D., Mix, Nameless, IDGU, and Happy are eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The Benchwarmers lead the team standings with their 8-0 record, followed by the Vetarans (7-1), Local Motion (6-2), and Teachers and Oba Squirt, which hold similar 5-3 records.<\/p>\n<p>Only the Top 4 teams will advance to the semifinals, which will be a best-of-three affair. The finals is a best-of-five showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Veterans are also leading the league in the combined two-point and three-point plays with their 88 and 6.  The Benchwarmers are in second with 78 two-point plays and 3 three-point plays, while Local Motion is ranked third with 59 two-point plays and 8 three-point plays. Two points are given to a kee, xunk, ace, and jam, while a goal is equivalent to three points. <strong>(Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only five teams are left to battle for the championship in the 2015 Rocball League&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1476,1477,1478,1479],"class_list":["post-189849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-idgu","tag-local-motion","tag-oba-squirt","tag-rocball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189849","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}