{"id":263247,"date":"2017-10-27T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263247"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:02:25","slug":"11-participate-rota-coaches-umpires-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/11-participate-rota-coaches-umpires-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"11 participate in Rota coaches, umpires clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_263251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263251\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sblpix-2.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan Baseball League coordinator Tony Rogolifoi answers questions from participants of the coaches and umpire clinic in Rota last week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eleven Rota residents participated in the weeklong coaches and umpires certification clinic conducted by Saipan Baseball League coordinator Tony Rogolifoi.<\/p>\n<p>Not even the inclement weather could stop Rogolifoi from sharing his technical knowledge of the sport to Rota residents. The certification clinic  began with the three-day umpires\u2019 course, from  last Tuesday to Thursday, and followed by the coaches lessons in the weekend and the written test last Monday. The coaches and umpires clinics, held in partnership with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, discussed the theory and technical side of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Rogolifoi said that after conducting the clinic Rota, the next plan is to bring the participants to Saipan for another test and have them umpire some games in the SBL\u2019s Under-25 division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe test will be on the actual theory and technical side of the game. They will umpire some games here for a few days. If they pass, we\u2019re going to award them with the certificates,\u201d Rogolifoi said in an  interview with Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was not enough time so I spoke with [DCCA Rota] director Maggie Mesngon to continue with the course and clinic here on Saipan for the final stage of the coaches and umpires\u2019 certification,\u201d added the Baseball Confederation of Oceania-certified coach and umpire.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the coaches and umpires certification course is expected to finish sometime in November or December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a Level 1 course under BCO. The final part need to be the actual games, on the field\u2014for both coaches and umpires,\u201d said Rogolifoi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Rota residents participated in the weeklong coaches and umpires certification clinic conducted by Saipan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":263251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18835,18836,492,1258],"class_list":["post-263247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-eleven-rota","tag-maggie-mesngon","tag-test","tag-tony-rogolifoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263247","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=263247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}