{"id":257263,"date":"2017-07-31T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257263"},"modified":"2017-07-31T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:00:03","slug":"every-win-counts-billiards-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/every-win-counts-billiards-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Every win counts in billiards leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each win would be important to all teams that are in title contention in the Saipan Billiards Association\u2019s Tuesday and Thursday leagues with games entering the final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still an open race in both leagues with four teams remaining in the hunt for the division crowns. All 13 games in the Singles and Partners 8-Ball events are played every week since each win and loss would count in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Only two wins each separate the competing teams in the Tuesday Division making the last six weeks more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The 9 Eleven Docomo Hustlers are still on top at 104-78 followed by the 102-80 apiece of the Chow Time-Blue Haus Destroyers and the 9 Eleven Titans. Tasha\u2019s Str8 Black Ball holds a 102-80 record at fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers continue to lead the standings after an 8-5 decision over the Str8 Black Ball, while the Destroyers edged the Titans, 7-6, to join their opponents in shadowing the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Chow Time Assassins defeated Tasha\u2019s Crazy 8, 7-6, with both teams having 69-113 records to complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the Thursday League, the Chow Time 8-Black Ball enjoy a three-win lead at 111-71 against the 9 Eleven MJD Warriors, 108-74, with the latter also up by three over sister team Titans II (105-77). Tasha\u2019s Wild Bills is fourth (101-81).<\/p>\n<p>The 8-Black Ball kept their hold of the top ranking following a 9-4 defeat of the lowly 9 Eleven Jam Shooters, while the Titans II remained in the title hunt after completing a 9-4 demolition of the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Bill\u2019s defeated sister squad Extreme, 8-5, which is the same score of Sands Team SCS\u2019s victory over the Chow Time-Blue Haus Homeboyz.<\/p>\n<p>Team SCS (194-88), Homeboyz (75-107), Extreme (70-112), and Jam Shooters (64-118) are in the other half of the standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each win would be important to all teams that are in title contention in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17676,17769,17770,2285],"class_list":["post-257263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-eleven-jam-shooters","tag-str8-black-ball","tag-tuesday-division","tag-wild-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257263","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}