{"id":261358,"date":"2017-09-29T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261358"},"modified":"2017-09-29T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:00:29","slug":"4-musketeers-tops-rota-3x3-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/4-musketeers-tops-rota-3x3-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Musketeers tops Rota 3&#215;3 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261366\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mibfpix-8.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 4 Musketeers players pose with their medals and are joined by  3&#215;3 Hoopfest Marianas 2017 organizers Elias Rangamar, left, and Greg Iginoef, right, during the awards ceremony for the Rota leg last weekend at the Rota Gymnasium. (Va\u2019ina Lizama)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ROTA<\/strong>\u2014The 4 Musketeers nosed out Old School, 20-19, in the men\u2019s division finals of the Rota leg of the 3&#215;3 Hoopfest Marianas 2017 held at the Rota Gymnasium last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Santos, Victorino Mendiola Jr., Cisco Atalig, and Garry Toves Jr. played for the champion team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning first place feels good. Knowing that I put my best to work made me gain something out of the tournament, which was pretty intense. Despite it being intense, I had fun.\u201d Mendiola said.<\/p>\n<p>With its title win, the 4 Musketeers along with Old School gained tickets to the final round of the 3&#215;3 Hoopfest Marianas 2017 that will be played this weekend on Saipan at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota champion squad is in Pool A of the preliminary games in the final round, joining Saipan winner Ol\u2019Aces, Almost, and Tinian\u2019s Busta. Old School is in Pool B with Saipan leg semifinalists Paki 3 and Nik Nak, and Tinian\u2019s Alpha Males.<\/p>\n<p>The champion in the finale will have a chance to represent the CNMI in the 2017 Pacific Mini Games, which will be held in Port Vila, Vanuatu from Dec. 4 to 15.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, besides the 3&#215;3 games, Rota also held a shootout contest last weekend with Mark Mendiola winning the \u201cmoney ball.\u201d He scored seven points to beat the six of Raccine Hizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROTA\u2014The 4 Musketeers nosed out Old School, 20-19, in the men\u2019s division finals of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":261366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,18115,18490,18491],"class_list":["post-261358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ceremony","tag-hoopfest-marianas","tag-old-school","tag-rota-gymnasium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261358","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}