{"id":225304,"date":"2016-04-13T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=225304"},"modified":"2016-04-13T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:07","slug":"alamo-top-seed-thursday-billiards-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/alamo-top-seed-thursday-billiards-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alamo top seed in Thursday billiards playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225316\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sba-pix-BW-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jokers Alamo Car Rental players pose for a photo before their game in the Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Top-ranked Jokers Alamo Car Rental will take on the No. 4 Wild Bills Wild Wild West in the playoff round of the Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League. <\/p>\n<p>Alamo earned the top spot after compiling a 154-106 record, narrowly beating the Homeboyz (153-107).<\/p>\n<p>The Homeboyz collide with fellow Jokers-backed squad Wildboyz in the other semis pairing. Both matches will be held tomorrow either at Jokers Bar &amp; Grill or at Wild Bill\u2019s, which are just  stones throw away in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildboyz came in third after the regular season ending up with a 146-114 slate, while sister squad Wild Wild West finished fourth at 133-127. The Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll (104-156) and Jonny\u2019s Team SCS (90-170) are the other teams in the division.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the semis matches will play for the title on April 21, while the losers will battle for third place also next week.<\/p>\n<p>Alamo closed out its season with a 9-4 trouncing of the Rack \u2018N\u2019 Roll, while the Homeboyz won against Wild Wild West in similar scores. Team SCS drubbed the Wildboyz, 8-5, in the other match.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tuesday SBA Cup, the Hustlers got back at the Voyagers with a 9-4 decision, while the Destroyers scored a 9-2 rout of the Wildboyz.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers lost the league crown to the Voyagers just a week ago but this time moved closer to the Cup finals with the victory. They were playing the Destroyers at press time with the winner earning a berth to the title round.<\/p>\n<p>The StraightBlackBall and the Jonny\u2019s Crazy 8 are the other teams battling for remaining finals berth. The finals will be played on April 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Jokers Alamo Car Rental will take on the No. 4 Wild Bills Wild Wild&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":225316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10258],"class_list":["post-225304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jokers-bar-grill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225304","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=225304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}