{"id":258125,"date":"2017-08-15T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=258125"},"modified":"2017-08-15T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:00:32","slug":"titans-tie-hustlers-top-tuesday-billiards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/titans-tie-hustlers-top-tuesday-billiards\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans tie Hustlers on top of Tuesday billiards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SEDA-pix-300x146.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jam Shooters celebrate their win against the Tasha\u2019s Extreme in the Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A win by the 9 Eleven Titans, coupled by a loss of sister squad Docomo Hustlers had both teams ending up as co-leaders in the Tuesday division of the Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball League.<\/p>\n<p>The Hustlers and Titans are both ahead by two wins, 119-89, from third placer Tasha\u2019s Str8 Black Ball\u2019s 117-91 slate after Week 16. There are four weeks left in the league and the Bud Cup will be played after the top season champs is known on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Chow Time Blue Haus Destroyers are in fourth (114-94) followed by Tasha\u2019s Crazy 8 (79-129) and Chow Time Assassins (76-132).<\/p>\n<p>The Titans defeated the Assassins, 9-4, behind the combined efforts of Bill Cepeda Shane Quitugua, Ray Matsunaga, and Simeon Kapileo to join the Hustlers on top of the standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans won six straight games after the Assassins went ahead by one, 3-4, after John Reyes bested Quitugua in their Singles 8-Ball match.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua teamed up with Cepeda in the Partner\u2019s 8-Ball to bounce back from that loss. The Titans did not drop a match after that to complete the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans had the Destroyers to thank for as they scored an 8-5 win over the Hustlers in the other scheduled game while the Str8 Black Ball also had the same result against the Crazy 8.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans will try to capitalize on their recent victory when they take on the Titans in Week 17 while the Crazy 8 battle the Destroyers. The Assassins clash with the Str8 Black Ball in the other scheduled match.<\/p>\n<p>In the Thursday League, the 9 Eleven MJD Warriors improved to 125-83 following a 10-3 win over the Tasha\u2019s Wild Bill\u2019s (109-99), while leaders Chow Time 8-Black Ball (128-80) scored a 9-4 win over the Chow Time Blue Haus Homeboyz (87-121).<\/p>\n<p>The 9 Eleven Jam Shooters (80-128) downed cellar dwellers Tasha\u2019s Extreme (79-129), 9-4, and the Sands Team SCS (108-100) defeated the 9 Eleven Titans II (116-92), 8-5.<\/p>\n<p>Week 17 games will have the Extreme colliding with the Titans II, the Homeboyz hosting the Jam Shooters, the 8-Black Ball visiting the Warriors, and Team SCS facing Wild Bill\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A win by the 9 Eleven Titans, coupled by a loss of sister squad Docomo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":258131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17674,17933,17769,1781],"class_list":["post-258125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chow-time-assassins","tag-eleven-titans","tag-str8-black-ball","tag-wild-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258125","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=258125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}