{"id":248650,"date":"2017-03-21T06:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=248650"},"modified":"2017-03-21T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:02:31","slug":"repeat-winners-xterra-saipan-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/repeat-winners-xterra-saipan-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat winners in XTERRA Saipan relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248667\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/xterrapix-300x152.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Top 3 finishers in the men\u2019s relay race of the 2017 XTERRA Saipan pose with their medals during the awards ceremony last Saturday at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tested trio of Ernie Moises, Bob Ferrer, and Roy Ortizo made it back-to-back after topping the relay race in last Saturday\u2019s 2017 XTERRA Saipan Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The winning team completed the 1.5-kilometer swim, 30K bike, and 12K trail run in 3:54:44 to finish first overall and get the men\u2019s relay gold medal in the 16th edition of XTERRA\u2019s Crown Jewel.  The champion squad\u2019s time last weekend was just a minute and change slower than its mark (3:53:22) in 2016 when it defeated four other squads in the division and placed second overall.<\/p>\n<p>Moises was the swimmer on the team and completed the two-lap race in the waters off Micro Beach at the 29:03 mark (26th place out of 51 swimmers). Ferrer took over in the bike leg and his 2:03:11 ranked him at No. 22\u2014even ahead of Japanese pro Takahiro Ogasawara (2:03:41). For the finish, Ortizo timed in at 1:21:45 (23rd best), giving  his team a more than two-minute lea against runners-up Kento Akimaru, Narlo Jacosalem, and Dencio Bautista, who combined for 3:57:19. Akimaru was the first swimmer (in the relay) out of the water after clocking in at 19:59, while Jacosalem and Bautista registered 2:14:36 and 1:22:14 in the bike and swim legs, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 3 finish in the men\u2019s division were Christian Villacrusis, Rhenmer Remillosa, and Butch Sublemente. Villacrusis gave his team a good start as he was second in the swim leg for the relay after submitting 21:58.  The squad was still in a close fight against the eventual Top 2 finishers after Remillosa recorded 2:12:07 in the bike leg. However, Villacrusis and Remillosa had to settle for third after Sublemente fell behind in the run leg with his 1:28:18 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jinju Thompson, Wynn Brillo and Rintaro Miyawaki teamed up anew and ruled the mixed relay.<\/p>\n<p>The trio, which placed second in their division last year behind by only 10 seconds against the champion squad, combined for 3:54:54 to finish way ahead of its competitors. Thompson completed the swim leg in 27:56 for the third best in the relay, while Brillo\u2019s 2:13:59 was also ranked No.3 in the team event. Miyawaki, on the other hand, was the fastest runner in the relay after timing in at 1:12:59.<\/p>\n<p>Miyawaki and company finished nearly 20 minutes ahead of runners-up Emily Northrop, Ferdinand Ramos, and Ronald Villafria, who timed in at 4:13:12. Vince Seman, Noe Valdissimo, and Nicole Harkness came in at third after logging 4:47:42, while Neda Farzan, Tina Goodwin, and Chris Fryling finished fourth with their 5:04:55. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tested trio of Ernie Moises, Bob Ferrer, and Roy Ortizo made it back-to-back after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":248667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9570,15097,16041,133],"class_list":["post-248650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jinju-thompson","tag-rhenmer-remillosa","tag-roy-ortizo","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248650","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=248650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}