{"id":265809,"date":"2017-12-05T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265809"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:00:31","slug":"sbl-eyes-new-season-early-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sbl-eyes-new-season-early-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SBL eyes new season in early 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Baseball League is encouraging interested teams to start their preparation for the 2018 season, which SBL plans to open either by late January or early February.<\/p>\n<p>SBL coordinator Tony Rogolifoi is urging teams and players to begin securing their respective uniforms and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam sponsorship have to be secured, team attire and game equipment and other team necessities are also required, and must be purchased prior to opening day,\u201d said Rogolifoi.<\/p>\n<p>Waivers and other forms are available at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium, while a meeting will be scheduled next month. Managers, coaches, and players are advised to wait for additional announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the SBL is trying to finish the Masters and Under 25 leagues this month or before the year ends.<\/p>\n<p>To meet its target, the SBL has started having the Masters league play two games with a two-hour time limit a few weeks ago, The league also plans to add a Saturday schedule to make sure the season will be completed before the Saipan Little League opens its competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Rogolifoi at 234-6672 or 285-3966. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Baseball League is encouraging interested teams to start their preparation for the 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,1475,731,1258],"class_list":["post-265809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ada-gymnasium","tag-saipan-little-league","tag-sbl","tag-tony-rogolifoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265809","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=265809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}