{"id":26851,"date":"2014-02-05T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper2.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=26851"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T01:00:50","slug":"rocball-league-completes-semis-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rocball-league-completes-semis-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocball league completes semis cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th season of the Saipan Rocball League is down to four teams after completion of the 45 regular season games last Friday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Left to battle in the semifinal round are Out-of-Shape, Rollerz, Teachers, and A-Team. Out-of-Shape and Rollerz are paired in the first semis duel, while the Teachers collide against A-Team in another best-of-three series with the winners of the Final Four matches advancing to the best-of-five title showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into today\u2019s semifinal matches, Out-of-Shape is slightly favored against the Rollerz after topping the scoring in the regular season and finishing the eliminations with an unbeaten 8-0 record. The top finisher gained 217 points from aces, xunks, kees, and goals against the 170 of Rollerz, which made it to the semifinals last with an even 4-4 card, losing the tiebreak for third with A-Team.<\/p>\n<p>A-Team earned 203 points in the regular season, just two more than Teachers, which got a 7-1 record in the elimination to gain the second seeding.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Out-of-Shape was named the heavy-hitter team (for scoring the most points) in the regular season. It notched 67 points off aces and xunk serves, 62 off backcourt plays, and 21 off 3-point goals. (Saipan Tribune)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th season of the Saipan Rocball League is down to four teams after completion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851","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=26851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}