{"id":259143,"date":"2017-08-30T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259143"},"modified":"2017-08-30T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:00:14","slug":"8-black-ball-aims-foil-warriors-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/8-black-ball-aims-foil-warriors-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"8-Black Ball aims to foil Warriors\u2019 challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SBA-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 9 Eleven MJD Warriors enjoy their 8-5 win over sister team Jam Shooters in their last week\u2019s game in the Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chow Time 8-Black Ball are hoping to fend off the title plans of the 9 Eleven MJD Warriors and crown themselves the champions in the last three weeks of the Saipan Billiards Association Budweiser Open 8-Ball Thursday League.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-Black Ball, after last week\u2019s matches, had already compiled 146 wins of the 234 games that they played. They are six wins ahead of the 9 Eleven MJD Warriors (138-96) heading to their Thursday match up against Tasha\u2019s Wild Bills (126-108).<\/p>\n<p>The last three weeks could make or break the Black Ball and Warriors\u2019 hopes of clinching the league crown. Both teams are hoping to clinch the most number of wins in their last three matches against different squads.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors\u2019 final schedule will be against lowly Tasha\u2019s Extreme (86-148) tomorrow, the Chow Time Blue Haus Homeboyz (100-134) on Sept. 7, and lastly the 9 Eleven Titans II (131-103) on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ball, after facing the Wild Bill\u2019s tomorrow, will take on the Titans II on Sept. 7 and the 9 Eleven Jam Shooters (94-140) on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ball upped their win count to 146 after a masterful 10-3 decision against the Sands Team SCS (115-119), the eighth team competing in the league, in their last game on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The quintet of Mervin Sahagun, Jeff Gayas, Rey Hermogenes, Oliver Gragasin, and Orly Tibus showed Teams SCS\u2019 Rowel Mariano, Toto Bigcas, Bryan Fabre, and Jerry Tiu why they are the current leaders of the weekly Thursday League.<\/p>\n<p>Gayas, Sahagun, and Gragasin, however, dropped two Singles and one Partner\u2019s 8-Ball matches against Bigcas and Mariano of Team SCS.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors could have inched closer to Black Ball\u2019s won-loss record but could only manage an 8-5 triumph over the Jam Shooters also in last week\u2019s matches. The Homeboyz, meanwhile, scored a 9-4 victory against the Extreme, while Wild Bill\u2019s defeated Titans II, 8-5.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s other games will have the Homeboyz hosting the Titans II, while the Jam Shooters take on Team SCS in separate venues on the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chow Time 8-Black Ball are hoping to fend off the title plans of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":259147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18110,18111,18112,2285],"class_list":["post-259143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-black-ball","tag-bryan-fabre","tag-orly-tibus","tag-wild-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259143","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=259143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}