{"id":31680,"date":"2014-04-07T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=31680"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:31:35","slug":"pro-triathletes-take-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pro-triathletes-take-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro triathletes take spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jets and Laolao Bay players exchange hi-fives before starting their make-up game in the Major division of the 2014 Saipan Little League Baseball last week at the Miguel ?Tan Ge? Basa Pangelinan Ballfield. (ROSELYN B. MONROYO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week\u2019s arrival of pro triathletes who competed in the 2014 XTERRA Saipan Championship took away the spotlight from local teams.<\/span>
\nSeventeen pro triathletes came to Saipan early last week to compete in last Saturday\u2019s Crown Jewel of XTERRA Tour. The list is lead by eventual XTERRA Saipan winners Ben Allen of Australia and Carina Wasle of Austria. Completing the roster were South Africa\u2019s Dan Hugo, Bradley Weiss, and Nicolas Sterk, New Zealand\u2019s Oliver Shaw and Marl Leishman, Switzerland\u2019s Olivier Marceau, Austria\u2019s Markus Benesch, Guam\u2019s Mieko Carey and Charlie Epperson, Russia\u2019s Aleksandr Dorovskikh, United Kingdom\u2019s Jacqui Slack, Switzerland\u2019s Renata Bucher, and Japan\u2019s Takahiro Ogasawara and Yasuko Miyazaki.
\nWith a bunch of triathletes competing on Saipan, other events on the island took a back seat to XTERRA.<\/p>\n

The Saipan Little League Baseball played its last regular season games in the Junior and Senior League, while the Major division and the Big League had matches past the halfway mark of the eliminations.<\/p>\n

In football, the NMIFA youth league is near completion of the matches in the girls and boys U15 and boys U18 age groups.
\nStill in football, Matansa and Kanoa FC won in Week 2 of the women\u2019s league, while MP United and Shirley\u2019s FC settled for a draw.<\/p>\n

In basketball, the finals cast in MDX caging was completed after Gwap Gang and the Pelicans survived San Antonio and IT&E in the semifinals, respectively.<\/p>\n

In baseball, the defending champions GSM Brewers and Yankees are in a neck-and-neck battle for the lead in the 2014 Saipan Baseball League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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