{"id":219556,"date":"2016-01-27T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219556"},"modified":"2016-01-27T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:00:41","slug":"2-teams-in-tight-battle-for-thursday-billiards-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2-teams-in-tight-battle-for-thursday-billiards-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teams in tight battle for Thursday billiards crown"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Jokers Docomo Hustlers, seen here posing for a group photo, are in a good position of claiming one of the Top 3 places in the ongoing Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Tuesday League. They are currently third behind leaders Jokers IT&E Voyagers and the Jokers Destroyers. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jokers Homeboyz and National Alamo Car Rental are currently locked in a tight battle for control in the Budweiser-Saipan Basketball Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League.<\/p>\n

The Homeboyz and Alamo have alternately occupied the top ranking with the former now holding a slim one-game lead at 71-46 against the 70-47 of the latter.<\/p>\n

The Jokers WildBoyz remains within striking distance of the leader at 64-53, while the Wild Bill\u2019s Wild Wild West is a far fourth at 54-63. Wild Bill\u2019s Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll (48-69) and the Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (44-73) complete the standings.<\/p>\n

Alamo would have regained the top spot but could only manage a tight 8-7 win over the Homeboyz in their highly anticipated showdown last week. The Alamo and Homeboyz did not disappoint with the Boyet Sequioco-captained quintet completing the win in the final Partner\u2019s 8-Ball match. Joseph Achas and Manny Mariano delivered the final win, breaking the 6-6 tie by beating Nolan Cultura and Rick Elefante.<\/p>\n

The WildBoyz squeezed out a 7-6 win over the Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll, while the Wild Wild West scored an 8-5 decision over Team SCS in the other games.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, matches today will have the Alamo facing the Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll, the Homeboyz taking on the Wild Wild West, and the WildBoyz clashing with Team SCS.<\/p>\n

In the Tuesday League, the Jokers IT&E Voyagers continue to enjoy their view from the top with a 101-55 card and are followed by their sister squads Destroyers (81-75) and Docomo Hustlers (78-78) at second and third spots.<\/p>\n

The Jonny\u2019s Titans and the StraightBlackBall, another Jo-kers-backed squad, are tied at 73-83, while the Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 bring up the rear at 62-94,<\/p>\n

The Voyagers and the Destroyers both completed 8-5 wins over the Titans and the StraightBlackBall, while the Hustlers pulled off a 9-4 triumph against the Crazy 8.<\/p>\n

The Destroyers were playing against the Hustlers at press time so were the Voyagers against the StraighBlackBall and the Crazy 8 over the Titans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jokers Homeboyz and National Alamo Car Rental are currently locked in a tight battle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":219560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9229,9066,1781,7977],"class_list":["post-219556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-docomo-hustlers","tag-joseph-achas","tag-wild-bill","tag-wild-wild-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219556","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=219556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}