{"id":2347,"date":"2012-02-08T03:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2012-02-08T03:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:17:15","slug":"for-the-love-of-volleyball-tourney-set-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/for-the-love-of-volleyball-tourney-set-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Love Of Volleyball tourney set Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association will be hosting the 4th Annual For The Love Of Volleyball tournament this weekend on the Hyatt Regency Saipan sand courts.<\/p>\n<p>Both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s divisions are being offered in a double-elimination format.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, special prizes were awarded to the Top 2 place finishers.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must be at least 16 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance fee is set at $20 per player or $15 for NMIVA members.<\/p>\n<p>Registration takes place courtside at 8:30am and participants should bring their own partners. Games tip off at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Standard FIVB two-person volleyball rules apply and the servers must alternate.<\/p>\n<p>Game point will start out at 15 with a cap of 21. In the semifinals and championship matches game point will shift to 21 and be capped at 25.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the number of teams, organizers reserve the right to adjust the scoring parameters in order to finish all of the games in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the second time the event will be held at the Hyatt.<\/p>\n<p>The competition also serves as a good warm up event for the ever-popular Marianas Cup Beach Volleyball Festival, slated from Feb. 22 to March 4.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Tyce Mister and Chris Nelson swept a seven-team men&#8217;s field, while Melody Matson and Amanda Clarkson triumphed undefeated over 10 other ladies&#8217; couples.<\/p>\n<p>For early registration or more information contact Vangie Sablan at 234-1234, email vangie.sablan@hyattsaipan.com or email NMIVA&#8217;s Laurie Peterka at nmivolleyball@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association will be hosting the 4th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}