{"id":19357,"date":"2011-09-30T06:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2011-09-30T06:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T06:07:52","slug":"dates-confirmed-for-2012-oceania-baseball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dates-confirmed-for-2012-oceania-baseball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates confirmed for 2012 Oceania Baseball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The upcoming 2012 Oceania Baseball Championship tournament dates have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be held at Guam&#8217;s Paseo Stadium from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the recent Pacific Games format, the CNMI will be competing against teams from Australia, New Zealand, Palau, Guam, and American Samoa in a single round-robin with page system final.<\/p>\n<p>Players that turn 19 during the 2012 calendar year are not eligible to compete.<\/p>\n<p>The roster is expected to be determined some time in early or mid November so the team can have adequate time to practice as a group.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for selection, a player has to be actively playing in the ongoing Summer\/Youth Baseball League or participate in youth baseball camps, which will be conducted, by qualified Saipan Major League Baseball Association coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Wood or composite bats will be used during the tournament and players in this league are urged to make the necessary adjustments and adapt to the use of these bats.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact SML official Tony Rogolifoi at 288-5426.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter The upcoming 2012 Oceania Baseball Championship tournament dates have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}