{"id":217523,"date":"2015-12-29T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=217523"},"modified":"2015-12-29T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:00:57","slug":"voyagers-lose-but-still-tuesday-league-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/voyagers-lose-but-still-tuesday-league-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyagers lose but still Tuesday League leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Billiards-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Billiards-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jokers StraightBlackBall is trying to keep up with the leaders in the Tuesday 8-Ball League.<br \/>(Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Jokers IT&amp;E Voyagers dropped a 7-6 decision over sister team StraightBlackBall but remain on top of the standings in the Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Tuesday League after last week\u2019s matches held in various bars on the island.<\/p>\n<p>Rodel Dela Cruz secured the win for StraightBlackBal after dispatching the Voyagers\u2019 Mark Butac in the final game of the Singles 8-Ball event for a 7-4 tally.<\/p>\n<p>But with all games need to be played, after each win and loss is counted on the standings, the Voyagers swept the last two Partner\u2019s 8-Ball events.<\/p>\n<p>The Voyagers still holds a league-best 55-36 record followed by the Destroyers, another sister team, with a 51-40 card. The Jokers Docomo Hustlers are third (48-43).<\/p>\n<p>The StraightBlackBall (41-50), Jonny\u2019s Titans (40-38), and the Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 (38-53) complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, the Titans escaped with a 7-6 win over Crazy 8, while the Hustlers scored a 9-4 triumph over the Destroyers.<\/p>\n<p>Results last Dec. 15 had the StraighBlackBall and the Voyagers completing 8-5 victories each against the Destroyers and the Titans while the Hustlers slipped past Crazy 8, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>In the Thursday League, which played last Dec. 17 before taking a two-week break, the Jokers Homeboyz and the Wild Bill\u2019s Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll each pulled off 8-5 wins over the Jokers Wildboyz and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS while the Wild Bill\u2019s Wild Wild West edged top ranked National Alamo Car Rental, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>Alamo is up by a win (48-30) over the Homeboyz (47-31), while the Wildboyz are a close third at 43-35. The Wild Wild West (35-43), Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll (33-45), and Team SCS (28-50) are the other squads.<\/p>\n<p>There won\u2019t be any games on Thursday, Dec. 31, with matches resuming on Jan. 7 next year with the Wild Wild West and the Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll facing off while Team SCS takes on the Homeboyz and Alamo hosting the Wildboyz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jokers IT&amp;E Voyagers dropped a 7-6 decision over sister team StraightBlackBall but remain on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":217540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1843,8899,1781,7977],"class_list":["post-217523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-tuesday-league","tag-voyagers-mark-butac","tag-wild-bill","tag-wild-wild-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217523","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=217523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}