{"id":402531,"date":"2023-12-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402531"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"No-7-Full-time-return-of-interscholastic-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/No-7-Full-time-return-of-interscholastic-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 7 Full-time return of interscholastic sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school year 2022-2023 and the ongoing 2023-2024 season saw the first full time return of interscholastic sports.<\/p>\n<p>Interscholastic sports that made their uninterrupted comebacks include the whole lot\u2014volleyball, basketball, badminton, cross country, soccer, va\u2019a, athletics\u2014and also welcomed a new edition\u2014softball.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the titles were won by defending champs, but it also saw unexpected upsets.<\/p>\n<p>The legacy of the Grace Christian Academy Lady Eagles is going strong as they won their unprecedented seventh title in girls high school volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>In high school girls basketball, MHS won its fourth title at the end of the 2022-2023 school year, but were upset by Saipan Southern High School in the ongoing 2023-2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the credit of a smooth and ever-growing sports program goes to Public School System Athletic Program director Nick Gross, his staff, the volunteers, and the sports federations.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/d792d4d9191b68579f03bee5e269c030.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Marianas High School&#8217;s Airianna Estrada, right, spikes over two Agape Christian School defenders during their varsity game win in the return of the NMIVA-PSS Interscholastic Girls High School Volleyball League 2023-2024 Tuesday at the MHS Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school year 2022-2023 and the ongoing 2023-2024 season saw the first full time return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402531","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=402531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}