{"id":269322,"date":"2018-02-02T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269322"},"modified":"2018-02-02T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:06:33","slug":"sis-stretches-winning-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-stretches-winning-run\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS stretches winning run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269331\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/copsapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan International School\u2019s Rintaro Miyawaki makes a return near the net during the second set of their game against Agape Christian School in the 2017-2018 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League yesterday at Agape\u2019s court. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan International School extended its streak to three after rallying past Agape Christian School in their middle school game in the 2017-2018 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League yesterday at Agape\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos bowed to Agape in the opening set, 17-25, but stole the victory after prevailing in the closely fought last two. SIS pulled off a 26-24 victory in the second set to tie the match and then completed its come-from-behind win with a tough 17-15 triumph in the deciding third.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Geckos swept their assignments this week. The Mili Saiki-coached team outclassed Seventh Day Adventist last Tuesday, 25-14, 25-14, 15-13. Last week, SIS also won all three sets of its game against Mt. Carmel School 2.<\/p>\n<p>Agape, on the other hand, went 0-2 this week as it also fell to Grace Christian Academy 1 last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, besides the Agape-SIS tiff yesterday, three more matches were played in the middle school division at the various school courts here. Mt. Carmel School 2 hosted Saipan Community, while Grace Christian Academy visited SDA in Chalan Kiya, and Mt. Carmel School 1 faced GCA 2 at the Knights turf. Results of the three other matches were unavailable at press time.<\/p>\n<p>The regular season games in the division will continue on Tuesday with SIS hoping to keep its winning run when it duels GCA 1 at the Geckos court and Agape aiming to regain its bearing when it hosts SDA. The two other matches on Feb. 6 will have MCS 1 challenging sister team MCS 2 and GCA 2 battling SCS at the latter\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>All eight teams will advance to the single-elimination playoffs at the end of the regular season with the No. 1 squad squaring up against the No. 8 finisher. Other pairings in the first round of the playoffs are No. 2 vs No. 7, No. 3 vs No. 6, and No. 4 vs No.5. The quarterfinals is tentatively set for March 2, while the semis games and finals may be played on March 6 and 8, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School extended its streak to three after rallying past Agape Christian School in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":269330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[746,698,1363,699],"class_list":["post-269322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carmel-school","tag-gca","tag-grace-christian-academy","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269322","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}