{"id":312000,"date":"2019-11-13T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=312000"},"modified":"2019-11-13T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:00:40","slug":"agape-tops-nmc-hosted-volleyball-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/agape-tops-nmc-hosted-volleyball-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Agape tops NMC-hosted volleyball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312025\" style=\"width: 2312px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/nmcpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agape players pose for a photo after receiving their prizes for topping the Northern Marianas College Volleyball Club\u2019s Thanks For Volleyball Tournament held last Monday at the Chamolinian Utt in Garapan. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Agape Volleyball Club ruled the Northern Marianas College Volleyball Club\u2019s Thanks For Volleyball Tournament held last Monday at the Chamolinian Utt in Garapan. <\/p>\n<p>Agape earned three wins in the 10-team single elimination competition to win the championship. <\/p>\n<p>In its finals match against Young and Fresh, Agape prevailed by 8 points, 25-17. Earlier in the semis, Agape cruised past Ice Pack, 25-13, to set a title duel with Young and Fresh. Agape also defeated Ace, 25-13, in its first match.<\/p>\n<p>Young and Fresh, on the other hand, marched into the finale after topping Ballania Hao in the quarterfinals, 15-5, and downing Ignite in the semis, 25-23.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Ignite battled Freeball in the quarterfinals and won, 25-22, to make it into the semis, while Ice Pack defeated Gobble Gobble, 25-20, to earn a Final Four seat.<\/p>\n<p>Ballania Hao before bowing out of competition, topped NMC, 25-12, while Ace triumphed over Ms. Bree, 25-21. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NMC Volleyball Club treasurer Wehilani Atalig said that the event turned out better than they expected despite this being their first time to host a competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe event was actually really good. We had a few mishaps in the beginning, but it all worked out in the end. When I was going around, people said they actually enjoyed it more than they thought they would,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Atalig added that more than the competition, the event aimed to bring members of the community together and also raise funds for the newly established club. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t specifically for anything, we just kind of wanted to bring together the community for our first volleyball tournament because this is the first time that NMC had a volleyball club,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The club officials said that since NMC just formed its first-ever volleyball group, funds raised will be used to host future events. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore tournaments, some specifically for NMC\u2019s students and staff, and maybe also open to the public but we\u2019re not too sure right now since we\u2019re ending the semester,\u201d Atalig said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agape Volleyball Club ruled the Northern Marianas College Volleyball Club\u2019s Thanks For Volleyball Tournament held&#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":[],"class_list":["post-312000","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\/312000","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=312000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312000\/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=312000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}