{"id":228836,"date":"2016-05-30T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=228836"},"modified":"2016-05-30T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:00:29","slug":"mjd-pic-gain-top-seeding-govtbusiness-caging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mjd-pic-gain-top-seeding-govtbusiness-caging\/","title":{"rendered":"MJD, PIC gain top seeding in gov\u2019t\/business caging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_228843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228843\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/intergovt-199x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IT&amp;E\u2019s Manolo Manalo, left, and Shane Deleon Guerrero watch MJD Enterprises\u2019 Matt Duenas goes up for an easy shot during their regular season game in the intergov\u2019t\/business league at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. MJD and IT&amp;E finished in the Top 2 in Pool A of the 16-team league. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MJD Enterprises and Pacific Islands Club went undefeated in the regular season of the 2016 IT&amp;E Inter-Government\/Business Basketball League to earn the top seeding in the playoff round which will begin tonight at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>MJD led Pool A of the 16-team field with its 7-0 record, while PIC got the same perfect mark in Pool B. MJD finished ahead of IT&amp;E (5-2), T Galleria (5-2), NMSA Spartans (4-3), Department of Public Safety (4-3), Commonwealth Ports Authority (3-4), BECQ (1-6), and Docomo 1 (0-7). PIC, on the other hand, lorded it over against DFEMS (5-2), Best Sunshine International (4-3), Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. (4-3), Customs (3-4), GPPC (3-4), Feds (2-5), and Docomo 2 (0-7).<\/p>\n<p>All teams advanced to the playoffs, which will implement a single-elimination crossover format.<\/p>\n<p>With this rule, the top-ranked MJD will take on Pool B last finisher Docomo 2 in the first playoff match tonight at 6:30pm. PIC will also start its playoff campaign tonight when it duels Pool A last placer Docomo 1 at 8:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>MJD and Docomo  2 are on the west side of the bracket, which will have three other pairings. The list includes NMSA versus Customs (June 6), IT&amp;E over Feds (June 1), and T Galleria against GPPC (June 3). The two remaining teams on the west bracket will battle for one of the two finals berth.<\/p>\n<p>On the east side, the three other first round matches are as follows: CHCC vs DPS (June 6), DFEMS vs BECQ (June 1), and Best Sunshine vs CPA (June 3).<\/p>\n<p>The finals between the winners of the west and east brackets will be played on June 15 at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MJD Enterprises and Pacific Islands Club went undefeated in the regular season of the 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":228843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1707,4234,7367,409],"class_list":["post-228836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-best-sunshine-international","tag-dfems","tag-mjd","tag-pic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228836","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}