{"id":203289,"date":"2015-06-03T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=203289"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:00:26","slug":"route-33-set-to-clinch-top-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/route-33-set-to-clinch-top-seeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 33 set to clinch top seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless a bizarre twist of fate happens tomorrow, the Route 33 Alamo Car Rental boys are out to secure the top ranking in the Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League.<\/p>\n

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Route 33 Alamo Car Rental players pose for a photo during a break in the Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Boyet Sequioco-captained squad, which holds a 157-98 card and an 11-game lead over the Jokers Homeboyz (146-109), will end the regular season this Thursday when it hosts the Jokers Wonderpool Aces. The Abyss Titans and Wild Bills are tied for third to fourth with similar 141-114 slates.<\/p>\n

The Top 4 teams after Thursday\u2019s final regular season will advance to the playoffs where the No. 1 will face No. 4 and the second-ranked squad will take on the third-seeded team.<\/p>\n

The winners of the one-game, knockout semifinals will march into the finals, while the losers will clash for third place honors.<\/p>\n

Route 33 hiked its record to a league-best 157 victories after winning by default against the Barcode Breakers (64-191) in last week\u2019s games, while the Homeboyz defeated the Wonderpool Aces, 12-3.<\/p>\n

The Homeboyz could overtake Route 33 if it could score a big win over Jonny\u2019s Team SCS and the Wonderpool Aces, aided by luck or divined providence, blank the Alamo Car Rental co-sponsored squad.<\/p>\n

In other games, Wild Bill\u2019s scored a 10-5 decision over the Abyss Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll (134-121), while the Titans pulled off a 9-6 triumph against Team SCS (104-151). The Barcode Hobbies Deadshot (130-125) nipped the Smoke Pub Magic 8-Ball (135-120), 8-7.<\/p>\n

Wild Bill\u2019s will collide with the Breakers, the Titans will take on Magic 8-Ball, and the Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll will visit the Deadshot in the other matches tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Over in the Tuesday League, the Smoke Pub-Armatech Hustlers posted a 9-6 victory over Abyss Crazy 8 to put some breathing space between them and second-running Jokers IT&E Voyagers.<\/p>\n

The Hustlers, after their victory, hiked their record to 152-103 to lead the 147-108 of the Voyagers. They are hoping to further pull away against the Voyagers with a win over the Jokers STR8 Shooters in the match that was still being played at press time.<\/p>\n

The Smoke Pub Ali\u2019i Destroyers (125-130) trounced the cellar-dwelling Abyss Homeboyz II (91-164), 13-2, while the Voyagers escaped with an 8-7 victory over the STR8 Shooters in the other games last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless a bizarre twist of fate happens tomorrow, the Route 33 Alamo Car Rental boys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":203309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2029,3159,3160,2285],"class_list":["post-203289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alamo-car-rental","tag-jokers-homeboyz","tag-smoke-pub-magic","tag-wild-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203289","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=203289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}