{"id":228589,"date":"2016-05-26T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=228589"},"modified":"2016-05-26T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:00:13","slug":"sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA honors winter-spring season top performers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-228589 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba1-4\/'>sba1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228602'>\n\t\t\t\tKai Thamka, left, receives a plaque of appreciation from Pacific Amusement general manager Jim Gebhard. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba2-4\/'>sba2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228603'>\n\t\t\t\tJim Gebhard, left, gives a plaque of appreciation to MARPAC representative Michelle Villacrucis. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba3-4\/'>sba3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228604'>\n\t\t\t\tCesar Sangalang shows his Thursday League\u2019s Run The Rack award. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba4-4\/'>sba4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228605'>\n\t\t\t\tRey Hermogenes joins Ray Matsunaga and Patrick \u201cStallion\u201d Cepeda on the the 8-Ball break winners list in the Tuesday League. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba5-4\/'>sba5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228606'>\n\t\t\t\tMark Butac wins the Top Performer award in the Tuesday League. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba6-4\/'>sba6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228607'>\n\t\t\t\tManny Mariano is the Thursday League\u2019s elimination round most valuable player. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba7-4\/'>sba7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228608'>\n\t\t\t\tMarc Brian Nelvis is the Tuesday League elimination round and finals MVP, and Run The Rack winner. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba8-4\/'>sba8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228609'>\n\t\t\t\tJoshua Woodson is the finals MVP in the Thursday League. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-honors-winter-spring-season-top-performers\/sba9-2\/'>sba9<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228610'>\n\t\t\t\tJack Thoensaket receives the Tuesday League\u2019s Sportsmanship award on behalf of the Jonny\u2019s Titans. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Saipan Billiards Association honored the individual performers in the 2016 winter-spring season with Ray Matsunaga and Marc Brian Nelvis leading the list as they collected three awards each in the Thursday and Tuesday leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Matsunaga collected the 8-Ball On Break awards in both the Thursday and Tuesday leagues, joining Patrick \u201cStallion\u201d Cepeda and Rey Hermogenes in the latter division. He was the Top Performer award recipient in the Thursday League together with Randy Sablan and Cesar Sangalang.<\/p>\n<p>All of Nelvis\u2019 three awards\u2014Run The Rack, and elimination round and finals most valuable player\u2014are in the Tuesday League as he helped the Jokers IT&amp;E Voyagers clinch the title.<\/p>\n<p>Sangalang was also the Run The Rack winner in the Thursday League, while Mark Butac was the lone recipient of the Top Performer award in the Tuesday League.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Mariano was the Thursday League elimination round MVP as he aided National Alamo Car Rental to a third place finish, while Joshua Woodson, who was part of regular season champ Jokers Homeboyz, was named finals MVP.<\/p>\n<p>All the awardees received trophies during SBA\u2019s banquet for the 21st edition of the tournament at the Pacific Island Club-Saipan Charley\u2019s Cabaret. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Budweiser remains the sponsor of both leagues including the postseason single elimination round tournament topped this year by Alamo (Thursday) and Jokers StraightBlackBall (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>Sign-up is ongoing for the upcoming summer-fall season set to start in July. The Warehouse, which opened only last month, and Doro\u2019s Lechon are the new team sponsors of both leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill, Jokers Bar &amp; Grill, Wild Bill\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill, Saipan Computer Service, IT&amp;E, National Alamo Car Rental, and NTT Docomo Pacific are the location bars and team sponsors of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Billiards Association honored the individual performers in the 2016 winter-spring season with Ray&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":228602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[528,1842,11712,1843],"class_list":["post-228589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mvp","tag-thursday-league","tag-top-performer","tag-tuesday-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228589","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=228589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}