{"id":5457,"date":"2012-03-15T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2012-03-15T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T02:27:08","slug":"d2pats-tops-islander-tag-team-8-ball-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/d2pats-tops-islander-tag-team-8-ball-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"D2Pats tops Islander Tag Team 8-Ball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>D2Pats&#8217; Pat Cepeda and Pat Taitano were hailed winners of the 19th Hole Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s Islander Tag Team 8-Ball Sunday night in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The duo boasted a healthy double-digit lead over the field coming into the final round held last March 3 and 4. They finished the series heads and shoulders above the field with 35 points through eight pairings.<\/p>\n<p>The series officially concluded Saturday night when Tasi&#8217;s Oscar Sablan and Ed Blas came out on top of a three-way tie for second place.<\/p>\n<p>Tasi defeated I Don&#8217;t Care&#8217;s Norman Tenorio and Quinton Ngirarios, 5-4, and went through third placer One Shot&#8217;s Ron Chisato and Edward Suzuki, 5-3, before IDC conceded in the third match after trailing, 1-4; all three teams finished the double round robin with 28 points.<\/p>\n<p>Other participating teams included Elaus&#8217; John Mongami and Taylor Watanabe, Y-Not&#8217;s Nolas Kaliga and Ben Norita, Leonize&#8217;s Leonard Sablan and Nizer Masayas, and I Don&#8217;t Know&#8217;s Gus Taitano and Ken Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 4 teams were presented with trophies with the Top 2 receiving modest cash prizes when the group reconvened Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>They also held a 12-man double-elimination potluck singles tournament on Sunday with IDC&#8217;s Ngirarios coming away as the victor over team Elaus&#8217; Watanabe.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, registration is now open for an encore Islander Tag Team 8-Ball series, which is set for March 17 and 18 at 7pm. Opening racks break at 7:30pm and 9:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are aiming to fill eight teams; slots are still available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter D2Pats&#8217; Pat Cepeda and Pat Taitano were hailed winners of&#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-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","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=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}