{"id":238445,"date":"2016-10-14T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=238445"},"modified":"2016-10-14T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:00:43","slug":"gca-1-2-extend-streak-split-sis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gca-1-2-extend-streak-split-sis\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA 1 and 2 extend streak; split for SIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238446\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/COPSSA-pix-167x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Grace Christian Academy 1 player eyes a return during their first round match against Whispering Palms at the WPS court. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace Christian Academy\u2019s two teams are on a roll, while Saipan International School posted contrasting results in the middle school division of the 2016-2017 Coalition of Private Schools Sports Association Volleyball League.<\/p>\n<p>GCA 1 is 10-0, pending the result of its game against Marianas Baptist Academy yesterday. The Eagles bagged their 10th victory last Tuesday after sweeping Whispering Palms at the GCA court, 25-7, 25-10, 15-12. In its Oct. 6 game, GCA 1 also won over Agape Christian School, 25-7, 25-6.<\/p>\n<p>GCA 2, on the other hand, are on a three-game winning streak, starting its run on Oct. 6 with a 16-25, 25-10, 15-13 victory against Whispering Palms at the Eagles&#8217; turf. Then last Tuesday, GCA 2 prevailed over Mt. Carmel School 2, 25-8, 25-20, while the Eagles faced Seventh Day Adventist yesterday and took a 25-10, 25-12 triumph to improve its record to 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, SDA pulled off an upset over the second-running SIS 1 last Tuesday, 19-25, 25-23, 15-13, while SIS 2 avoided a Geckos shutdown after topping Agape, 25-21, 25-19. The defending champion SIS 1 fell to a 10-2 mark, while SIS 2 gained a 2-8 slate.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Community defeated MBA last Tuesday, 25-21, 25-5,9-15. The Tsunamis also got the early win in their Oct. 4 match versus SDA, 25-13, 25-22.<\/p>\n<p>The middle school league is on the second and final round of the regular season and games will resume on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>GCA 1 hopes to extend its streak next week when it takes on SDA at the Eagles court. GCA 2 will aim for its eighth victory when it faces Agape at the Torchbearers&#8217; turf. Other pairings in the Oct. 18 matches are Mt. Carmel School 1 vs. Whispering Palms at MCS; SIS 2 vs. MBA at MBA; and SIS 1 vs. SCS  at SIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Christian Academy\u2019s two teams are on a roll, while Saipan International School posted contrasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":238446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[698,926,699,3905],"class_list":["post-238445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gca","tag-sda","tag-sis","tag-whispering-palms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238445","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=238445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}