{"id":277285,"date":"2018-06-01T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=277285"},"modified":"2018-06-01T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:02:04","slug":"5-complete-champions-list-in-ite-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/5-complete-champions-list-in-ite-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"5 complete champions list in IT&E tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
From left, IT&E\u2019s Rob Harrell, men\u2019s A singles champion Ferdie Arago, runner-up Alex Nguyen, and Northern Marianas Badminton Association\u2019s Tommy Kim, and Cris Hilario pose for a photo after the awards presentation in the IT&E Singles and Doubles Badminton Competition 2018 last Friday at the TSL Sports Complex. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Five more players made it to the winners circle of the IT&E Singles and Doubles Badminton Competition after topping their respective finals opponents last weekend at the TSL Sports Complex.<\/p>\n

Ferdie Arago ruled the men\u2019s A singles division after overcoming Alex Nguyen\u2019s twice-to-beat advantage in the finals. Arago posted a 21-17, 21-16 victory in Game 1 and then completed the come-from-behind victory with a 21-18, 21-17 triumph in the deciding Game 2 last Friday.<\/p>\n

The back-to-back wins over Nguyen made up for Arago\u2019s earlier loss to the former in the winner\u2019s brackets semifinals. After the defeat to Nguyen, Arago had to eliminate Gary Bandoja in the loser\u2019s group to get a second crack at his finals foe.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the pair of Windy Fernandez and Jaja Bocago foiled the upset bid of Elna Curate and Angie Ito last Friday to place first in the women\u2019s doubles BB category. Ito and Curate outlasted their favored foes in three games in their first outing in the finals, while Bocago and Fernandez fought back in the decider, which was also played in three games.<\/p>\n

Bocago and Fernandez and Curate and Ito also faced in the winner\u2019s bracket semis with the first pair prevailing to earn the twice-to-beat edge, while the eventual runners-up ousted LucelleLampera and Ana Alvarez to advance to the finals.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s doubles BB, Oh Im Bog and Hannah Choi came from the loser\u2019s bracket en route to topping the division. They knocked out Yun Zheng and Taeho Kim in the loser\u2019s bracket semis to get back at Chris Hilario and Patrick Fernandez, who had a twice-to-beat advantage. Choi and Oh went on to take the division title after a no-show from Fernandez in last Friday\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

Oh and Choi were awarded with trophies by Rob Harrel, executive director of customer operations for tournament sponsor IT&E. Trophies were also handed out to the other division champions, which include men\u2019s doubles AB\u2019s Nate Guerrero and Hilario, mixed AB\u2019s Arago and Windy Fernandez, mixed BB\u2019s Hilario and Fernandez, mixed CC\u2019s Vince Aquino and Emma Pinkerton, men\u2019s CC\u2019s Aquino and Chris Ching, and women\u2019s B\u2019s Windy Fernandez.<\/p>\n

Arago and Patrick Fernandez got medals for placing second in the men\u2019s doubles AB, while other runners-up were mixed AB\u2019s Bandoja and Hannah Choi, mixed BB\u2019s Annette Ta and Bandoja, mixed CC\u2019s Timothy Choi and Zoey Zhang, men\u2019s doubles CC\u2019s Vipul Kapool and Bruce Yu, and women\u2019s B singles\u2019 Loida Ito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five more players made it to the winners circle of the IT&E Singles and Doubles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":277286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5303,3583,157,10532],"class_list":["post-277285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ab","tag-bb","tag-hannah-choi","tag-windy-fernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277285","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=277285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}