{"id":285472,"date":"2018-09-27T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285472"},"modified":"2018-09-27T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:02:12","slug":"gca-1-sis-down-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gca-1-sis-down-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA 1, SIS down opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285473\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copsapix-5.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Saipan International School player receives a serve from Agape Christian School 1 during their first round meeting in the middle school division of the 2018-2019 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League at the Agape court in Middle Road. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace Christian Academy 1 and Saipan International School earned contrasting wins in the 2018-2019 Commonwealth Coalition of Private Schools Association Volleyball League last Tuesday to remain at the top half of the team standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos needed three sets to beat Saipan Community School at the SIS court in As Lito, while GCA 1 showed no love lost to sister squad GCA 2 after a victory via sweep at the Eagles turf in Navy Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Though GCA 1 took only two sets to prevail against GCA 2, the latter still gave the former a tough fight, as seen in the match\u2019s final scores, 25-21, 25-21. With the victory, GCA 1 hiked its record to 9-0 and strengthened its hold to the top spot in the team standings.  GCA 2, on the other hand, fell to a 5-5 mark and slid from third place to fifth.<\/p>\n<p>SIS dislodged GCA 2 from the No. 3 spot after winning over SCS in an extended game early this week. The Geckos notched a 25-14 triumph in the first set, but missed the outright victory when SCS got even in the second,  25-11. Then in the deciding third set, SIS pulled off a 15-12 win to move up to the rankings. The Geckos now have a 5-4 record and ended a three-game slide that started with their loss to Mt. Carmel last Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights are also back on track following a three-set victory over Agape Christian School 2 last Tuesday at the Agape court in Middle Road.  Mt. Carmel now holds a 5-4 record for a tie for fourth placce with SIS and behind GCA 1 and Agape 1.<\/p>\n<p>Agape 1 kept the No. 2 spot, as it improved to a 7-2 slate after defeating Seventh Day Adventist last Tuesday.  SDA is still at the bottom half of the team standings (seventh place) with its 2-7 record, ahead of Agape 2, which has yet win a single match after nine games. SCS is ranked No. 6 with its 3-7 mark. SCS was scheduled to face Agape 1 in the lone match set for yesterday and results of the game were unavailable as off press time.<\/p>\n<p>Today, three matches will take place in two courts. At the MCS Gymnasium,  the Knights will host SDA in the 3:30pm game, while over at the GCA court, GCA 1 and 2 will duel Agape 2 and SIS in the 3:30pm and 4:30pm matches, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Christian Academy 1 and Saipan International School earned contrasting wins in the 2018-2019 Commonwealth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":285473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2270,698,1034,699],"class_list":["post-285472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-agape-christian-school","tag-gca","tag-scs","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285472","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=285472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}