{"id":311439,"date":"2019-11-05T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311439"},"modified":"2019-11-05T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:00:31","slug":"nov-14-kickoff-for-girls-high-school-caging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nov-14-kickoff-for-girls-high-school-caging\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 14 kickoff for girls high school caging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311440\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pssbasketpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Marianas High School player, third left, gets ready for a point-blank shot against a Tinian High School defender during the Public School System\u2019s interscholastic basketball competition early this year at the Koblerville Gymnasium. (Saipan Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Public School System aims to kick off the 2019-2020 Interscholastic Girls High School Basketball League on Nov. 14 at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. <\/p>\n<p>According to PSS Student Support Services Athletic Program director Nick Gross, the girls high school basketball season will start after the opening of the middle school girls volleyball competition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just kind of a switch. High school sports will still be played every Tuesday and Thursday, while middle school sports will remain on Wednesday and we will be going full speed even though November is a difficult month with the amount of holidays,\u201d Gross said. <\/p>\n<p>Gross said that the high school girls basketball season should conclude by Dec. 10 with the double elimination tournament set for Jan. 10 and 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll come back, have a couple of make-up days for the first week or two in January if we need them, and we\u2019ll do a double elimination tournament with Tinian and Rota schools around the 10th or 11th of January,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>For the middle school girls volleyball season, Gross said that without any setbacks, the double-elimination playoffs will take place on Dec. 13 with Tinian and Rota expected to join the competition. <\/p>\n<p>Also in the works, Gross said, are games for the boys. He said they are in the planning stages of the fast pitch softball, basketball, soccer, and hopefully swimming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got some big plans.  We want to get fastpitch softball going and some swimming stuff scheduled. We have a grant that was approved and we\u2019re going to work on it for the different swim programs so we should have news about that in the near future,\u201d Gross said. <\/p>\n<p>PSS is also planning a co-ed volleyball in the elementary division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public School System aims to kick off the 2019-2020 Interscholastic Girls High School Basketball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":308649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311439","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=311439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}