{"id":383935,"date":"2023-01-24T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=383935"},"modified":"2023-01-24T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:02:45","slug":"acs-1-mhs-2-rocket-through-day-1-of-co-ed-hs-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/acs-1-mhs-2-rocket-through-day-1-of-co-ed-hs-badminton\/","title":{"rendered":"ACS 1, MHS 2 rocket through Day 1 of co-ed HS badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caleb Cui, right, leaps high while Aaron Zheng gets ready during their game in the co-ed high school Public School System\/TakeCare Badminton Interscholastic League last Friday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Agape Christian School Torchbearers and Marianas High School Dolphins rocketed their way through the competition of bracket one in the first day of round-robin games in the co-ed high school Public School System\/TakeCare Badminton Interscholastic League held at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium last Friday.<\/p>\n

The ACS Torchbearers were on fire as they brought Tinian High School to their knees in an almost complete sweep of all five events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Torchbearers won all three games of the boys doubles, girls doubles, boys singles, girls doubles events, but lost in the mixed doubles, for a final score of 12-3.<\/p>\n

In the game against Saipan Southern High School team 2, there was no letting up as the Torchbearers fired through all five events for a complete sweep of 15-0, thanks to the boys lineup of David Zhao, Louis Chen, Allen Ye, James Fan, Michael Ma, and the girls lineup of Tina Zheng, Ruth Zhang, and Susie Zheng.<\/p>\n

Over in the waters controlled by the MHS Dolphins, they swept all five events against Tinian High School, 15-0. In the game against Grace Christian Academy, they swept all but one event for a score of 12-3.<\/p>\n

The MHS boys roster include Marlon Bautista, Jan Dumagan, Brandon Manacop, and Paulo Quidato. The girls consist of Seiyul Hong, Zhimin Jin, Vianca Mangulabnan, Enmei Quan, and Angieleysha Punzalan.<\/p>\n

After defeating their foes, the Torchbearers and Dolphins garnered a total score of 27 points each and are both on top of the bracket one leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Behind them are the 2021-2022 co-ed high school badminton defending champions, Saipan International School, with a total score of 15 points after beating GCA team 2, 8-7, and defeating SSHS team 2, 7-5.<\/p>\n

Fourth in the standings is GCA team 2 with a total of 7 points after losing to SIS and not being able to play a second game after a power outage at the gym.<\/p>\n

SSHS team 2 is in fifth place with 5 points and Tinian is at the bottom of the standings with 0.<\/p>\n

Results of bracket two games will be posted in the next issues of Saipan Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n

The schedule for the next round-robin games are this Saturday, Jan. 28, then on Saturday, Feb. 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Top 2 of bracket one and bracket two round-robin semifinal games are scheduled for Saturday, March 4, while the championship game is scheduled for Saturday, March 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agape Christian School Torchbearers and Marianas High School Dolphins rocketed their way through the competition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":383909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1285,365,38],"class_list":["post-383935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-acs","tag-mhs","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383935","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}