{"id":274319,"date":"2018-04-19T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=274319"},"modified":"2018-04-19T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:00:41","slug":"black-ball-nips-marianas-water-in-tuesday-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/black-ball-nips-marianas-water-in-tuesday-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ball nips Marianas Water in Tuesday League"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_274330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274330\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sbapix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-274330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sands Team SCS and Amari\u2019s Intensity 8 pose for a group photo before their game in last week\u2019s Budweiser-Saipan Billiards Association Open 8-Ball Thursday League. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 9 Eleven Str8 Black Ball squeezed out a 7-6 decision over Marianas Water last week to join their sister team at third place in the Budweiser Open 8-Ball Tuesday League.<\/p>\n<p>The win improved Black Ball\u2019s record to 70-47, which is the same mark of Marianas Water as they stay close behind the 73-44 slate of Brannon\u2019s Docomo Hustlers. Idle Amari\u2019s IT&amp;E Destroyers are on top at 83-34. The 9 Eleven Wildboyz (68-49), Beach Beer Masters Touch (66-51), and Brannon\u2019s 670 Builders (38-79) complete the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Rey Hermogenes and Mervin Sahagun clinched the important win for the Black Ball when they defeated Roel Barreto and Rodel Dela Cruz in the final Partner\u2019s 8-Ball event.<\/p>\n<p>The Masters Touch trounced the Builders, 8-5, while the Hustlers dumped the Wildboyz, 9-4, in the other Tuesday League matches.<\/p>\n<p>In last week\u2019s Thursday League, the 9 Eleven 8 Black Ball won the last four games to complete a 9-4 decision over the Brannon\u2019s Jam Shooters.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ball remains on top with a 69-35 slate, followed by the Amari\u2019s IT&amp;E Homeboyz (63-41), 9 Eleven MJD Warriors (58-46), 9 Eleven Titans (53-41), Sands Team SCS (49-55), Amari\u2019s Intensity 8 (46-58), Jam Shooters (44-60), and VFW Assassins (34-70).<\/p>\n<p>Team SCS edged the Intensity 8, 7-6, while the Homeboyz and Warriors scored similar 8-5 wins over the Assassins and the Titans, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9 Eleven Str8 Black Ball squeezed out a 7-6 decision over Marianas Water last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":274330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20866,18308,20230,18049],"class_list":["post-274319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-idle-amari","tag-jam-shooters","tag-marianas-water","tag-mervin-sahagun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274319","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=274319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}