{"id":403150,"date":"2023-12-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403150"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"No-9-CNMI-riders-defend-Turkey-Cross-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/No-9-CNMI-riders-defend-Turkey-Cross-title\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 CNMI riders defend Turkey Cross title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI riders defended their 2022 championship by beating Guam racers again in the 2023 Turkey Cross last November at the Cowtown Race Park.<\/p>\n<p>The home team won eight out of 15 divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Local riders won the Peewee ATV Class (Nakoa Torres), Mini ATV Class (Anelia Igotol), Power Puff Class (Billie Inabo Pangelinan), Big Boys ATV Class (Christian \u201cHollywood\u201d Camacho), Veterans ATV Class (Greg Clark), Veterans Class (Justis \u201cCuki\u201d Alvarez), Intermediate Class (Aric Cruz), and Open Expert Class (Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez).<\/p>\n<p>Guam\u2019s seven first place finishes were in the Peewee I Class (Kyan Mayo), Peewe II Class (Royce Butler), Mini I Class (Julian Lane), Mini II Class (Jonathan Aguon), Women&#8217;s Class (Marianna Wenden), Novice Class (Kanen Arceo), and Legends Class (Franklin Rios).<\/p>\n<p>CNMI riders will once again defend the title in next year\u2019s Turkey Cross.<\/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\/ba3689d85963722a60c1f5453c38f66c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Shane Alvarez, center, raises his Expert Class championship trophy during the awards ceremony for the 2023 Turkey Cross at the Cowtown Race Park. To his right is runner-up Blaze Aiken of Guam and to his left is another Guamanian, Johnny Aguon, who came in third. Alvarez led the Marianas Racing Association\u2019s win against Guam in the event.<\/p>\n<p>-TISHA FERRER<br \/>\n<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI riders defended their 2022 championship by beating Guam racers again in the 2023 Turkey&#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-403150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403150","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=403150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}