{"id":281940,"date":"2018-08-09T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=281940"},"modified":"2018-08-09T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:02:03","slug":"top-athletes-honors-at-stake-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/top-athletes-honors-at-stake-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Top athletes honors at stake tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_281941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281941\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nmsapixxx.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonette Labausa competes in the weightlifting event in last month\u2019s 9th Micronesian Games in Yap. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northern Marianas Sports Association will have its monthly meeting tonight with the selection of the top athlete awardees for July at the forefront of its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees for the Male and Female Athletes of the Month and the Tan Siu Lin Foundation\/NMSA Student Male and Female Athletes of the Month will come from the participants in the two big off-island tournaments the CNMI competed in\u2014the 9th Micronesian Games in Yap and the 2018 Pacific Oceania Junior Championships in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>In the past years, NMSA handed the monthly awards to the gold medal winners in the Micro Games, however the final decision on the selection of athletes will still depend on the votes of the attendees of tonight\u2019s meeting at 7pm at the conference room of the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>In last month\u2019s Micro Games, athletics\u2019 Rachel Abrams and Zarinae Sapong won one gold medal each, while weightlifters Angel San Nicolas and Antonette Labausa earned three golds apiece. Swimmer Kento Akimaru also got a gold.<\/p>\n<p>As for the POJC, Robbie Schorr won the boys U16 singles title in the annual competition after pulling off upsets against two higher-ranked opponents. The CNMI junior tennis player\u2019s outstanding showing in the POJC makes him a strong candidate for the male student-athlete award.<\/p>\n<p>For the female student-athlete selection, the likely candidates are athletics\u2019 Jerlyn Castillo,  Jamie Pangelinan, and Therize Millare, who also brought home medals from Yap.<\/p>\n<p>For the Team of the Month plum, the candidates may include the baseball and men\u2019s canoe teams, which each won a silver medal in the Micro Games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Marianas Sports Association will have its monthly meeting tonight with the selection of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":281941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[845,783,1140,8792],"class_list":["post-281940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-micro-games","tag-micronesian-games","tag-pojc","tag-therize-millare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281940","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=281940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}