{"id":390087,"date":"2023-04-24T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=390087"},"modified":"2023-04-24T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T20:03:40","slug":"torchbearers-blaze-through-3000m-in-last-hs-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torchbearers-blaze-through-3000m-in-last-hs-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Torchbearers blaze through 3,000m in last HS qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_390055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390055\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NMA-pixwb-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NMA-pixwb-4.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-390055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eunice Xu from Agape Christian School, right, is first place in the 18U girls 3,000m event in the last high school qualifiers of the NMA\/PSS All Schools Athletics 2022-2023 last Saturday at the Oleai Sports Complex track and field. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Agape Christian School Torchbearers torched their competition in the last high school 18U 3,000m qualifiers in the NMA\/PSS All Schools Athletics 2022-2023 last Saturday at the Oleai Sports Complex track and field.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18U boys competition, Samuel Zhu came in first with a time of 11:25.71; second was Takeru Jim from Grace Christian Academy at 11:51.64; and Jake Moncada of Tinian High School 12:23.81<\/p>\n<p>The 18U girls 3,000m was a close one with Eunice Xu coming in first at 12:43.50; second was Tiana Cabrera from Saipan International School at 12:56.26; and third was ACS\u2019 Emma Pang at 14:10.60.<\/p>\n<p>The other event was the boys and girls 800m, with the boys competition led by Cody Shimizu from Marianas High School at 2:13.94; Caleb Cui from ACS was second at 2:14.83; and Miles Linden from GCA was third at 2:25.79.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls race, Eunice Xu was first again with a time of 2:47.12; Summer Manahane from Saipan Southern High School was second at 3:03.08; and third was Emma Pang at 3:09.36.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_390047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390047\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NMA-pix-2wb-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NMA-pix-2wb-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-390047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tinian High School\u2019s Marcial Patio, right, is third place in the discus throw event in the last high school qualifiers of the NMA\/PSS All Schools Athletics 2022-2023 last Saturday at the Oleai Sports Complex track and field.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>The shortest sprint event of the day was the boys and girls 200m. Augustin Palacios from THS was first at 25.30; second was Caleb Cui at 25.58; and third was Bonny Gonzales from THS at 28.16 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Heat 2 was led by Cody Shimizu with 24.97; second was Jasper Hall from GCA at 25.25; and third was Justice Aldan from THS at 26.11 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Heat 3 Top 2 were Matthew Sarmiento from THS at 24.70 and Kobe Imperial from SSHS at 28.85.<\/p>\n<p>The girls\u2019 Top 3 was Edwardina Flamar from Kagman High School at 30.54; Priscilla Cheng from ACS at 32.06; and Ha\u2019ani Passi from SSHS at 32.68.<\/p>\n<p>Heat 2 Top 4 was Casey Cruz from SSHS at 28.35; Sunny Wang at 32.71; THS\u2019 Mary Manuel at 34.27; and teammate Serenity Guzman at 37.27.<\/p>\n<p>Heat 3 was dominated by Filomenaleonisa Iakopo from SIS at 28.45; second was Tsubakiko Joab from KHS at 32.27; and Denise Miguel was third at 33.06.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18U boys shot put event, the Stallions dominated the Top 3. Matua San Nicolas was first with 12.37m; Keith Nabors was second with 10.25m; and Mefi Norech was third at 9.93m.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18U girls shot put, Ruth Zhang from ACS topped it at 8.10m; second was Karisse Ong from THS at 6.88m; and Jasmine John from SSHS was third with 6.85m.<\/p>\n<p>The last field event was the discus throw, with the 18U boys dominated by the Stallions once again. Matua San Nicolas was first at 30.05m; second was Keith Nabors at 28.99m; and third was Marcial Patio at 26.78m.<\/p>\n<p>For the girls discus throw, Kina Rangamar from MHS threw the farthest at 17.15m; second was Abbygaile Ong from THS at 16.94m; and third was teammate Julia Medicielo at 16.58.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the last middle school qualifiers will be posted in the next editions of <em>Saipan Tribune.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agape Christian School Torchbearers torched their competition in the last high school 18U 3,000m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":390054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5044,38],"class_list":["post-390087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-hs","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390087","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=390087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}