{"id":310738,"date":"2019-10-25T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310738"},"modified":"2019-10-25T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:02:30","slug":"brilliant-star-shines-in-all-schools-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/brilliant-star-shines-in-all-schools-cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Star shines in All Schools Cross-Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_310739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310739\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nmapix-5.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elementary school students race in last Saturday\u2019s 2019 All Schools Cross-Country Championships at the Saipan Country Club.  (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brilliant Star School came out on top of the elementary school division competition in the 2019 All Schools Cross-Country Championships held last Saturday at the Saipan Country Club. <\/p>\n<p>Brilliant Star swept the boys and girls overall titles in the elementary division that featured student-runners in the U7, U9, and U12 age groups. It scored 20 points in the boys category to prevail against Saipan Community School (24), Saipan International School (26), Agape Christian School (28), Mt. Carmel School (45), and San Vicente Elementary School (66). <\/p>\n<p>Overall winners in the elementary divisions were determined by awarding points to schools based on how their students finished in the 1.5-kilometer race (one lap). Only the Top 5 runners from each school received points and the school with the least points was declared the winner.  <\/p>\n<p>In the girls elementary, BSS collected 16 points to win first place honors. SIS took second place with 20 points, followed closely by Agape with 21 points, while San Vicente was ranked fourth with 52 points. <\/p>\n<p>In the individual winners list, BSS\u2019 Shana Barman bagged the gold in the girls U7 age group after finishing the race in 5:46. San Vicente\u2019s Jayanna Reyes got the silver after timing in at 6:35, while SIS\u2019 Leilani Ruszala notched the bronze with her 6:59. <\/p>\n<p>In the boys U7, Tinian Elementary School\u2019s Hun Yeong Seo submitted 5:43 to earn the gold, while SIS\u2019s Jude Rayphand (5:44) and BSS\u2019 Kanoa Owens (6:05) rounded out the Top 3.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls U9 age group, BSS\u2019 Sari Barman recorded 5:08 to win the gold medal, while SIS\u2019 Suki Peng (5:37) and SCS\u2019 Allie Brasuell (5:45) secured the silver and bronze, respectively. In the boys division, SIS took the bragging rights with Fin Altizer finishing the course in 5:13, while BSS\u2019 Akeen Edvaison (5:33.06) and SCS\u2019 Patrick McDonald (5:33.93) completed the Top 3. <\/p>\n<p>For the boys U12 age group, Moshe Sikkel handed BSS a first place finish after recording 4:38 and beating Tanapag Middle School\u2019s Wataru Kadokura (4:45) and SCS\u2019 David Ye (4:53).  In the girls division, Agape had two runners making it to the Top 3 with Barbara Wang getting the gold with her 4:38 and Jiayi Crystal Ye (5:26) earning the bronze. BSS\u2019s Fiona Regan (5:22) won the silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant Star School came out on top of the elementary school division competition in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":309043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4730],"class_list":["post-310738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-brilliant-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310738","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}