{"id":262236,"date":"2017-10-13T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=262236"},"modified":"2017-10-13T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:00:54","slug":"moc-mpp-paddlers-take-perpetual-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/moc-mpp-paddlers-take-perpetual-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"MOC, MPP paddlers take perpetual trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262236 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/moc-mpp-paddlers-take-perpetual-trophies\/canoepix2\/'>canoepix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-262240'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Outrigger Club paddlers receive the perpetual trophy from Northern Marianas National Paddle Sports Federation during the short awards presentation last weekend. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/moc-mpp-paddlers-take-perpetual-trophies\/canoepix1\/'>canoepix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-262239'>\n\t\t\t\tOfficials of the Northern Marianas National Paddle Sports Federation pose with Marianas Pacific Paddlers\u2019 women\u2019s team that won the perpetual trophy in the 2017 Canoe Paddling Season last Sunday at Kilili Beach. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Northern Marianas National Paddle Sports Federation\u2019s 2017 Canoe Paddling Season concluded with the last run of the distance races last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s teams from Marianas Pacific Paddlers and Saipan Paddling Club (SPC) competed in the open women\u2019s eight-mile course, while Marianas Outrigger Club and Saipan Paddling Club (SPC)  entered the open men\u2019s 10-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>MPP women\u2019s crew ended up winning the three-round series that started in August with their strong performance in the eight-mile course. MOC paddlers, on the other hand, continued their dominance in the men\u2019s division as they defeated SPC in all three races.<\/p>\n<p>Perpetual trophies were awarded to both MPP women\u2019s team and MOC men\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SPC\u2019s junior paddlers entered the last race series as a practice run and scrimmage against Napu Outrigger Club\u2019s junior crew. Both squads will be competing in the 2017 Micro Cup in Guam later this month.<\/p>\n<p>SPC\u2019s junior paddlers had only two weeks to train but decided to enter and race to get first hand experience. On the other hand, Napu\u2019s junior girls and boys teams showed everyone how much they are committed to the sports by entering the races for the whole season. Napu competed and scrimmaged against their own teams in the sprints and distance events.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from MPP, MOC, SPC, and Napu competed in the 250m , 500m, and 1,000m.  MOC and MPP Clubs entered two men\u2019s and women\u2019s squads, respectively, while SPC had one men\u2019s and one women\u2019s squad. In the junior division, Napu and SPC each entered one boys and one girls team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank all the parents, junior paddlers, coaches, clubs, and all our paddlers for a wonderful and successful 2017 season,\u201d  race director Ed Johnson said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NMNPSF looks forward to a better season in 2018 as it prepares to host the Micro Cup here next year,\u201d NMNPSF head Justin Andrew added.<\/p>\n<p>The group also acknowledged the generous contributions of Napu and Saipan Outrigger Canoe Club for making their canoes available to teams from the different clubs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas National Paddle Sports Federation\u2019s 2017 Canoe Paddling Season concluded with the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":262239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7685,18658,133,166],"class_list":["post-262236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-moc","tag-mpp","tag-run","tag-spc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262236","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}