{"id":5613,"date":"2012-03-17T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2012-03-17T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:28:49","slug":"sml-season-opener-slated-for-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sml-season-opener-slated-for-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"SML season opener slated for March 26"},"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\/issx9999ns117374.jpg\" alt=\"Shell Fielders' Ben Flores, seen here in a file photo from last year's Saipan Major League season, cranks a base hit against the St. Michael's Angels at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield. (Walter Cepeda Sutherland)\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 Saipan Major League Baseball Association has circled March 26 as the opening day for its 2012 season at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this year&#8217;s field includes last season&#8217;s runner-up Brewers, Fielders, Masters, D-9ers, and newcomer Gagu.<\/p>\n<p>The SML has traditionally started each new season with a rematch of the past year&#8217;s final series, however they are prepared to make adjustments in the case of the defending champion Angels not being able to suit up.<\/p>\n<p>The format of the game schedule is still being determined. Organizers are hoping to field six teams in a double round-robin format. Organizers are also tentatively utilizing a page system playoff format. The league is in need of corporate sponsors in order to expand the regular an post season arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Upon release of the official schedule, teams are required to submit their preliminary rosters prior to their first game.<\/p>\n<p>Games will be scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays excluding austerity days.<\/p>\n<p>An organizational meeting was held Tuesday where roster and waiver forms were circulated.<\/p>\n<p>The entry fee to participate is $800 per team and checks are to be made payable to the SMLBA.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be released next week.<\/p>\n<p>Contact SML&#8217;s Tony Rogolifoi at 288-5426, 287-1129 or 785-0823 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0 Saipan Major League Baseball Association has circled March 26&#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-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","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=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}