{"id":229098,"date":"2016-06-02T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=229098"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:00:11","slug":"cnmi-begins-bid-mac-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-begins-bid-mac-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI begins bid in MAC today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229115\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/macpix-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI team members and officials pose for a photo last Monday before they leave Saipan for Pohnpei to compete in the 2016 Micronesian Athletics Championships. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Competition in the 2016 Micronesian Athletics Championships in Pohnpei will start today with the CNMI athletes seeing action in seven of the 22 events scheduled in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Salvosa will kick off the Commonwealth\u2019s campaign in the regional championships as she joins the women\u2019s U18  javelin throw\u2014the fourth event in Day 1 behind the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 10,000m runs and the 100m hurdles of the heptathlon contest.<\/p>\n<p>Salvosa, who is participating in her first off-island athletics tournament, is also entered in the U18 100m race, along with Bernadette Horey and Pinyarat Shankweiler. The three CNMI bets will be running against Palau\u2019s Iesha Umayam, Chuuk\u2019s Nepeufich Aunuwa, Nauru\u2019s Enuwudu Dela Justen, and the host\u2019s Darla Jonah.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s open 100m qualifying run, the Commonwealth has only one entry in Zarinae Sapong, who will be up against Chuuk\u2019s Marie Carmella Robert, Sinsina Kau, and Milly-Ika-Lady Britt, the Marshall Islands\u2019 Ilania Keju, and Pohnpei\u2019s Lerissa Henry and Daimontra Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s open 100m preliminary heats are also set today with Ben Jones Jr. carrying the fight for the CNMI. Fifteen other runners are entered in the qualifying heat led by the favored  Benon Kin of Chuuk and home bets Roy Elwise, Steve Mendiola, and Kitson Kapiriel.<\/p>\n<p>After the men\u2019s 100m heats and two more events in the women\u2019s heptathlon, Shankweiler and Horey will return to the track to race in the 400m run. After her running event, Horey will proceed to the long jump area to join Salvosa in the U18 contest.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 400m preliminary races are also slated today with Beo Ngirchongor and Leowell Cristobal representing the CNMI. Fourteen other runners will compete in the men\u2019s open 40m run.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s open discus throw, the Commonwealth has three bets in Sylvan Rangamar, Daniel Joab, and Nick Gross. The three CNMI athletes will be facing Pohnpei\u2019s Daniel Ekiek and Dison Soumei, Guam\u2019s Henry Lizama and Justin Andre, and Nauru\u2019s Christophe Esela, and Joseph Dabana.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the other members of the CNMI team\u2014Conatsu Kaga and Jerald Castillo\u2014will debut in the MAC tomorrow and the rest of the squad will have their other events this Saturday. Kaga is entered in the women\u2019s U18\u2019s 800m, 1,500m, and 3,000m runs, while Castillo will race in the 100m and 200m runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition in the 2016 Micronesian Athletics Championships in Pohnpei will start today with the CNMI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":229115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,11771,454,133],"class_list":["post-229098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-micronesian-athletics-championships","tag-nauru","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229098","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=229098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}