{"id":280230,"date":"2018-07-18T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280230"},"modified":"2018-07-18T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:06:14","slug":"abrams-schmidt-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/abrams-schmidt-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams, Schmidt deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-280230 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/abrams-schmidt-deliver\/microhgamespix1jpg\/'>microhgamespix1jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-280232'>\n\t\t\t\tRachel Abrams, center, proudly poses for a photo after winning the gold medal in the women\u2019s high jump event in the 9th Micronesian Games in Yap yesterday. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/abrams-schmidt-deliver\/microgamespix2-2\/'>microgamespix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-280231'>\n\t\t\t\tDouglas Schmidt, right, joins other long jump winners in the podium during yesterday\u2019s medal presentation in the 9th Micronesian Games in Yap.\t (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/abrams-schmidt-deliver\/8th-micro-games-medal-tally-7-17-18\/'>8th micro games medal tally 7.17.18<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Multi-sport athlete Rachel Abrams handed the CNMI its first gold medal in the 9th Micronesian Games after ruling the women\u2019s high jump event yesterday at the Matson Yap Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial results had Abrams posting 1.36 meters in the high jump to win the gold\u2014the Commonwealth\u2019s second medal in athletics as Zarinae Sapong won the first (silver) in the 100m run last Monday. Later after Abrams\u2019 triumph in the women\u2019s division, Douglas Schmidt gave Team Marianas its third medal\u2014a silver\u2014after placing runner-up in the men\u2019s long jump.<\/p>\n<p>The complete results of the Day 2 events in athletics were unavailable as of press time. The shot put throw (women\u2019s), 5,000m run (men\u2019s and women\u2019s), 400m run (men\u2019s and women\u2019s) and octathlon were the other events scheduled in the second day of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the first day, the CNMI\u2019s Jamie Pangelinan was just one step away from making it to the podium after placing fourth in the javelin throw. She recorded 21.39m to finish behind Guam\u2019s Genie Gerardo (28.17m), Pohnpei\u2019s Sandonia Likor (24.75m), and Palau\u2019s Amaya Ngirkelau (22.22m).<\/p>\n<p>In the 100m run, Sapong did not only earn a silver medal, but also set a new personal best time with her 13.12 seconds in the finals. Sapong clocked in at 13.19 in the qualifier for the second best time overall behind eventual gold medal winner Regine Tugade (12.38 seconds) of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan also qualified in the finals with her 13.83 seconds in the preliminary heat. She submitted 14.08 seconds in the gold medal race for eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s long jump Pangelinan was ranked fifth with her 4.33m, while Jerlyn Castillo came in at sixth after logging 4.18m to beat two athletes from Palau, one from Pohnpei, and fellow CNMI bet Leani Acosta (3.87m). Tugade also topped the event with her 4.95m.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s 400m run, Schmidt qualified to the medal round after placing second on Heat 2. He recorded 53.90 seconds to rank No. 6 overall in the preliminary races and notch one of the eight slots to the finals. Chuuk\u2019s Kiudone David topped the field with his 52.89 seconds on Heat 2, while compatriot Francis Rikat ruled Heat 1 and had the second fastest qualifying time with his 53.21 seconds.  The CNMI\u2019s Traven Quitugua (1:03.07) and Neldreyton Skerei (1:03.91) missed the cut.<\/p>\n<p>In the discus throw, Ron Olopai finished fifth with his 29.23m heave, while Tony Ichiuo came in at ninth after registering 24.52m.<\/p>\n<p>In the 100m run, Quitugua broke the 12-second mark with his 11.99, but he failed to advance to the medal race, while Gabriel Sappa also did not make the grade after checking in at 12.23 seconds. Nauru\u2019s Jonah Harris won the  gold with his 11.07 seconds, while Palau\u2019s Rodman Teltull (11.10 seconds) and Chuuk\u2019s Scott Fiti (11.22) took the silver and bronze medals, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Guam leads the medal tally in the Micro Games as of press time yesterday afternoon. It had a 7-3-2 gold-silver-bronze medal haul. Palau had five golds, two silver, and two bronze, while Pohnpei recorded 3-6-2 tally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-sport athlete Rachel Abrams handed the CNMI its first gold medal in the 9th Micronesian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":280233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,51,319,133],"class_list":["post-280230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-palau","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280230","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=280230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}