{"id":5058,"date":"2012-03-10T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2012-03-10T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:26:08","slug":"island-wide-youth-cage-tourney-concludes-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/island-wide-youth-cage-tourney-concludes-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Island-Wide Youth cage tourney concludes this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns117174.jpg\" alt=\"San Vicente Saints' Vince Iglesias makes a strong move to the hoop against Othello's Krog Ogo in Saturday's UBA U25 Island Wide Youth Basketball Tournament matchup held at the Garapan Basketball Court. (Walter Cepeda Sutherland)\" width=\"74\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 The Unified Basketball Association&#8217;s Island Wide Youth Basketball Tournament champions will officially be crowned this weekend at the Garapan Basketball Court.<\/p>\n<p>The three-division tournament already concluded its U15 and U17 age groups over the past two weeks and today its nine-team U25 main division will determine which three squads will survive into tomorrow&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining teams include the Runnin&#8217; Rebels, Rollers, Ayuyus, San Vicente Saints, Akkeri, and Saipan 1. Hi-5, Othello, and Saipan 2 were eliminated during last weekend&#8217;s opening rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Action resumes at the Garapan court at 4:30pm today with an upper bracket pairing between the Rollers and the Ayuyus.<\/p>\n<p>The winner moves on to face undefeated Runnin&#8217; Rebels in tomorrow&#8217;s curtain raiser, while the other team will be paired against Akkeri in a knockout match later today.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30pm, the Saints clash with Saipan 1 in a lower bracket elimination match; games will run hourly until roughly 8:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s matches start at 5:30pm with the upper bracket semifinals where the winner advances to the championship with a twice-to-beat advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The other team must then go through the lone remaining lower bracket contender; organizers are prepared for a deciding finals match, if needed.<\/p>\n<p>The awards presentation for all age divisions is scheduled to take place immediately following the U25 finals.<\/p>\n<p>The five-on-five full court games are played under 16-minute halves.<\/p>\n<p>Docomo Pacific and the UBA, as well as partners Hoopaholics 670 and the 670 Rollers Basketball Club, is sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0 The Unified Basketball Association&#8217;s Island Wide Youth Basketball Tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}