{"id":217828,"date":"2016-01-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=217828"},"modified":"2016-01-04T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:00:00","slug":"nmiva-holds-final-event-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmiva-holds-final-event-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NMIVA holds final event of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217831\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NMIVA-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NMIVA-pix-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Ben Dasalla, Angie Mister, and Tyler Willsey are all smiles after winning last week\u2019s three-person beach volleyball tournament. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association held its final event of 2015 last week with a three-person beach volleyball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 10 teams joined the event held at the sand courts of Hyatt Regency Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Even a brief downpour didn\u2019t derail the victory of the trio of Tyler Willsey, Angie Mister, and Ben Dasalla as they emerged as the top team after the elimination and seeding rounds.<\/p>\n<p>They defeated the team of Dale Roberts, Steve Beyer, and CNMI U19 girls\u2019 volleyball team member Emily Jones in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Sean E. Frink, Tyce Mister, and Aaron Frink finished third.<\/p>\n<p>NMIVA also thanked Phalai Frink and Russ Quinn for organizing the event, along with volunteers Emily Frink, Amie McRoberts, Sharon Cabrera, Jinju Thompson, and Ian Mayne.<\/p>\n<p>NMIVA\u2019s next event is another grass volleyball tournament on Jan. 16, which is similar to the two-person reverse co-ed event they held last year at the Navy Hill court.<\/p>\n<p>NMIVA will also help prepare Saipan in hosting the 24th edition of the Marianas Cup Beach Volleyball Festival this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association held its final event of 2015 last week with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":217831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8935,8936,1845,8937],"class_list":["post-217828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-angie-mister","tag-ben-dasalla","tag-nmiva","tag-tyler-willsey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217828","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=217828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}