{"id":286293,"date":"2018-10-09T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=286293"},"modified":"2018-10-09T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:04:47","slug":"sis-agape-runners-stand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-agape-runners-stand-out\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS, Agape runners stand out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_286295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286295\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/nmaumbrella.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agape and Saipan International School students head out to the course during the 2018 Northern Marianas Athletics All Schools Cross Country Series 3 held last Saturday at the Saipan County Club in Chalan Kiya. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan International School and Agape Christian School students dominated the podium in the middle and high school divisions of the 2018 Northern Marianas Athletics All Schools Cross Country Series 3 held last Saturday at the Saipan County Club in Chalan Kiya.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls U18 division, Tania Tan and Stella McCallion gave SIS a 1-2 finish after recording 31:07 and 32:16, respectively, in the up and down course (nearly four miles). Marianas High School\u2019s Therize Millare rounded out the Top 3 after posting 33:54, while four other Agape runners and one each from MHS and SIS completed the finishers\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U18 age group, which drew 16 runners, Agape\u2019s Kobe Yang was the first placer after checking in at 27:27. Jonathan Xing, also from Agape was ranked second after recording 28:11, while MHS\u2019 Ken Song came in at third following his time of 28:45.<\/p>\n<p>In the U15 division, it  was an all-Agape show. Vivian Xu timed in at 27:13 in the nearly three-mile course to beat fellow Agape student Phoebe Chang and Mei Ou, who submitted 27:28 and 28:44, respectively. In the boys event,  Agape also had a 1-2-3 finish with Arthur Liang (19:15) coming in at first and followed by Jason Cao (20:29) and Ray Qi (20:59).<\/p>\n<p>Agape had another sweep in the girls U13 division with Jenny Lin (26:47) prevailing against Elvira Zhang (31:52) and Emily Huang (31:51). In the boys field,  Agape\u2019s Caleb Dai timed in at 21:18 to win over SIS\u2019 Danny Lee (23:01), and schoolmate Peter Bu (23:54).<\/p>\n<p>In other results, students from four different schools ruled the elementary races.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U7 division, SIS\u2019s Oliver McCallion  was the top finisher after registering 11:57 in the a one-mile course. He won over Brilliant Star School\u2019s Kanoa Owens (12:10), fellow SIS student Finn Altizer (12:18) and 18 other runners in the group. In the girls division, Saipan Community School\u2019s Allie Brasuell (13:16) led the Top 3, which also included SIS\u2019s Maliya Benson (14:30) and the former\u2019s schoolmate Elita Li (17:03).<\/p>\n<p>In the girls U9 age group, Agape\u2019s Barbara Huang, SIS\u2019 Phoenix Gross, and San Vicente\u2019s Abigal made up the Top 3 after clocking in at 11:47, 13:35, and 15:03, respectively. William S. Reyes Elementary School\u2019s Paul Lizama (9:02) won the boys race after recording 9:02 and was joined in the Top 3 by SIS\u2019 Kelly McCallion (9:14) and SCS\u2019 David Xiao (10:04).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 2018 NMA All Schools Cross Country Championships will be held this Saturday, also at the Saipan Country Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School and Agape Christian School students dominated the podium in the middle and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":286295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[995,22753,1623,699],"class_list":["post-286293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chalan-kiya","tag-finn-altizer","tag-saipan-international-school","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286293","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=286293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}