{"id":20305,"date":"2012-05-25T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=20305"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:49:06","slug":"cnmi-may-masters-rolls-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-may-masters-rolls-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI May Masters rolls off today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Mark Rabago<br \/>\nAssociate Editor<\/div>\n<p>The 30th CNMI May Masters Bowling Tournament will be held beginning today, May 25, at the Saipan Bowling Center.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the three-day bowl-fest will feature singles (three games), doubles (three games), and team (four players and three games) events.<\/p>\n<p>Registration will begin at 1:30pm, while the singles game is set at 2pm. The doubles and team events will begin at 4:15pm and 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The singles, doubles, and team competitions will tomorrow, May 26, from 9am to 2pm. Then at 6pm, the centerpiece event-the May Masters-women&#8217;s division, will kick off with female keglers playing 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>The May Masters culminates with the men&#8217;s masters on Sunday, May 27. The 12-game event will start at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>In both women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s masters, there should be at least 12 bowlers registered to proceed with the competition and the bowler to record the highest pinfalls wins the masters tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Raymond Zapanta claimed his first May Masters men&#8217;s title after collecting 2,406 pinfalls in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time women&#8217;s champ Ron Cal, meanwhile, returned to the winner&#8217;s podium following a 12-game total of 2,205.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 May Masters Bowling Tournament is sponsored by Budweiser, MARPAC, Jet Holdings\/Saipan Bowling Center, Shirley&#8217;s Coffee Shop, and IT&amp;E. It concludes with an awards ceremony at 6:30pm on Sunday at Shirley&#8217;s Coffee Shop in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Saipan Bowling Association&#8217;s Ross or Gigi Zapanta at 288-5627 or email zapanta@pticom.com or Robert Talavera at the Saipan Bowling Center at 234-6420.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Rabago Associate Editor The 30th CNMI May Masters Bowling Tournament will be held&#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-20305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305","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=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}