{"id":312189,"date":"2019-11-15T06:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=312189"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:04:36","slug":"hopwood-1-wins-season-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hopwood-1-wins-season-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopwood 1 wins season debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312190\" style=\"width: 816px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/psspix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hopwood Middle School 1 player tries to keep her balance as she hits the ball back to Dandan Middle School 2 during the opening of the 2019-2020 Public School System Interscholastic Girls Middle School Volleyball League last Wednesday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hopwood Middle School 1 delivered in its opening game after defeating Dandan Middle School 2 in the 2019-2020 Public School System Interscholastic Girls Middle School Volleyball League that kicked off last Wednesday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. <\/p>\n<p>Hopwood 1 had a rousing start in its debut after hammering Dandan 2 in the first set, 21-6. The Hilitais ended up sweeping its debut game following a 21-12 triumph in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Agape Christian School, Francisco M. Sablan Middle School, Hopwood 2 and 3, Chacha Oceanview Middle School 1 and 2, DMS 1, Grace Christian School, Tanapag Middle School, and Saipan International School also played in the opening week of the league.<\/p>\n<p>Agape won both sets, 21-0, 21-0, while Dandan 1 defeated Hopwood 2 in similar scores against Hopwood 2. Also getting easy wins in two sets were SIS and GCA, who topped Chacha 2 and Tanapag, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Hopwood 3 faced off Chacha 1 and labored its way to a 21-16 win in the first set before recording a much easier 21-12 victory in the second. <\/p>\n<p>Action in the middle school volleyball league will continue this weekend and 12 games will be played starting at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>On the North Court, Chacha 1 will take on Mt. Carmel 1; Hopwood 3 will face Agape; Dandan 2 will battle FMS and Hopwood 3; Agape will face Mt. Carmel 1; and Chacha 1 will duel Hopwood 1. On the South Court, the pairings are the following: SIS vs Mt. Carmel 2; Chacha 2 vs GCA; Dandan 1 vs Tanapag; Dandan 1 vs Chacha 2; GCA vs Mt. Carmel 2; and SIS vs Hopwood 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopwood Middle School 1 delivered in its opening game after defeating Dandan Middle School 2&#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-312189","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\/312189","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=312189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312189\/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=312189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}