{"id":284430,"date":"2018-09-13T06:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=284430"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:02:58","slug":"sis-gca-2-sweep-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-gca-2-sweep-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS, GCA 2 sweep opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_284431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284431\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copsapix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy 2 coach Genesis Prieto huddles with his players during a break in their earlier game against Saipan International School in the 2018-2019 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League at the SIS court in As Lito. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan International School is on a roll, while Grace Christian Academy 2 is back on track in the middle school division of the 2018-2019 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos, who dropped their opener against Agape Christian School 1, made in three wins in a row following a sweep of Agape 2 last Thursday at the SIS court in As Lito. The Mili Saiki-coached SIS eased past Agape 2 in the first set, 25-9, and although the Torchbearers played better in the second, the Geckos still won by double digits, 25-12, to notch the outright victory.<\/p>\n<p>With SIS extending its streak, it forced a three-way tie for second place in the team standings (pending results of yesterday\u2019s games). The Geckos were in a standoff with Agape 1 and Mt. Carmel School, as they have similar 3-1 records.  SIS was hoping to get the solo No. 2 spot yesterday, as it was scheduled to play against Seventh Day Adventist (1-3).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, GCA 2 recorded only its second win after downing Saipan Community School in straight sets. GCA, which won its opener over Mt. Carmel, but loss back-to-back games (versus GCA 1 and SIS), eked out a 26-24 victory against SCS in the first set. Then in the second, the Eagles gained more cushion en route to a 25-13 triumph.<\/p>\n<p>With its 2-2 slate, GCA 2 moved up to third place in the team standings, while SCS dropped to a 0-4 mark and was at the bottom of the rankings, sharing the cellar with Agape 2. Both SCS and Agape 2 had a chance to finally break into the win column as they were scheduled to meet in one of the pair of matches in the league yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the competition will be back to a four-game schedule with the leading and unbeaten GCA 1 (4-0) putting its clean slate on the line when it takes on Agape 1 at the Torchbearers turf in Middle Road. SIS and Mt. Carmel will also have their streaks at stake as they collide in the 3:30pm game at the Geckos court. The two other matches this afternoon will have SDA battling SCS at the former\u2019s court in Chalan Kiya, while Agape 2 will host GCA 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School is on a roll, while Grace Christian Academy 2 is back on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":284431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[698,22515,1623,1034],"class_list":["post-284430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gca","tag-genesis-prieto","tag-saipan-international-school","tag-scs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284430","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=284430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}