{"id":191668,"date":"2015-02-12T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=191668"},"modified":"2015-02-12T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:00:35","slug":"tinian-agape-join-miso-volleyball-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tinian-agape-join-miso-volleyball-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinian, Agape join MISO volleyball finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian High School and Agape Christian School will be joining the weekend finale of the 2014-2015 Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization Girls Volleyball League to complete the list of eight teams that will contend for the title.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191669\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"191669\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MISO-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MISO-pix1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Christian Academy aims to regain the title it last won in 2013 when it faces Saipan Southern High School in the first game of the finale of the 2014-2015 Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization Girls Volleyball League on Friday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-191669\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy aims to regain the title it last won in 2013 when it faces Saipan Southern High School in the first game of the finale of the 2014-2015 Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization Girls Volleyball League on Friday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<br \/>(Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tinian, despite failing to compete in the regular season, is automatically seeded fourth, while ACS only plays in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rota High School was supposed to join the tournament, but failed to secure the needed funds for their trip.<\/p>\n<p>ACS will have a tall order against them when they take on the undefeated and defending champion Marianas High School tomorrow, Friday, at 11am at the MHS Gymnasium\u2019s north court<\/p>\n<p>Grace Christian Academy, the 2013 titlist, battles winless Saipan Southern High School at the same time at the south side.<\/p>\n<p>Kagman High School and Saipan International School collide at the north court, while Mt. Carmel School faces Tinian at the other side at 12noon.<\/p>\n<p>Teams can start their warm-up exercises at 10:30am, while the matches will continue until 3pm on Friday. On Saturday, games will start at 9am and end with the finals at 12noon.<\/p>\n<p>MHS swept all of its 10 games in the elimination round and did not drop a set since opening the season with consecutive wins against GCA and Mt. Carmel.<\/p>\n<p>GCA came in second with a 7-3, losing twice to MHS and its other setback against Mt. Carmel this season.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan International School and MCS ended up with identical 5-5 slates to end up tied for third, but the former secured the No. 3 seeding in this weekend\u2019s final tournament based on the number of sets won.<\/p>\n<p>SIS varsity won 73.7 percent of the sets they played or 14 out of 19, while MCS V came up with 63.2 percent or 12-of-19.<\/p>\n<p>Kagman High School finished fifth at 2-8 with two of its wins against winless Saipan Southern High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian High School and Agape Christian School will be joining the weekend finale of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":191669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1285,1363,394,1623],"class_list":["post-191668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-acs","tag-grace-christian-academy","tag-miso","tag-saipan-international-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191668","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}