{"id":289519,"date":"2018-11-30T06:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=289519"},"modified":"2018-11-30T06:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T20:02:47","slug":"sbl-hands-title-to-ck-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sbl-hands-title-to-ck-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"SBL hands title to CK Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_289520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289520\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sblpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-289520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chalan Kanoa Bears\u2019 A.J. Lizama takes his time before pitching against the Mariners during a regular season game in the 2018 Saipan Baseball League at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chalan Kanoa Bears are the champions in the 2018 Saipan Baseball League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SBL board met yesterday (last Wednesday) and by majority, the championship was awarded to the CK Bears,\u201d league coordinator Tony Rogolifoi told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears took the opener of their best-of-five title series against Go See Mark, 8-5, last Oct. 22 or a few days before Super Typhoon Yutu slammed Saipan and Tinian. The Category 5 typhoon left the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield unplayable with the bleacher crumpled, the bases and ground washed out, and the lights and nets broken.<\/p>\n<p>Rogolifoi, who is also the executive director of Northern Marianas Sports Association that manages the \u201cTan Ko\u201d field and other facilities inside the Oleai Sports Complex, said it will take a while to fix the massive damage left by Yutu so there\u2019s no away that SBL could resume the title series.<\/p>\n<p>With the Bears taking the finals win, they completed their domination of the 2018 season as they also got the pennant title this year. The Bears earned a 17-1 record in the double-round robin regular season. The 17 victories came in streak and were recorded after the Bears dropped their first game in the season against the dethroned champions Aces, 4-14.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bears suffered their only defeat last March 9 before sweeping the remaining games in the elimination round and keeping their run in the semis after finishing off the Aces. The Bears eked out a 6-4 victory in Game 1 and then completed the sweep with a 10-7 triumph in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>GSM also took only two matches to move into the title series. It edged the Mariners in Game 1, 8-6, and closed out the semis showdown with an even tougher 9-8 triumph in Game 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chalan Kanoa Bears are the champions in the 2018 Saipan Baseball League. \u201cThe SBL&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":289520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3291,1352,23107,1258],"class_list":["post-289519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gsm","tag-saipan-baseball-league","tag-super-typhoon-yutu","tag-tony-rogolifoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289519","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=289519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}