{"id":63358,"date":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/98a5a830-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"98a5a841-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/98a5a841-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi brings back beach volleyball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buff bodies and sexy babes will once again compete against one another as the 2nd Annual Asahi Co-ed Fours Beach Volleyball League gets underway starting April 30 at the Pacific Islands Club.<\/p>\n<p>Ferocious spikes, defensive blocks and gallant saves will likely be the order of the day as still an undetermined number of teams will duke it out during the eight-week long tournament.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe number of participating teams will really depend on the final tally of sign-ups for the event,\u201d said PIC sports and recreation director Jon Cramer.<\/p>\n<p>Teams can have as much as seven players in their line-up but no more than four, with a minimum of one female, can be on the court at the same time, Cramer reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>Players will be farmed out in a draft to be conducted during the banquet on April 30. \u201cThis will give the league a more balanced and fair competition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Matches will be held twice a week every Tuesday and Thursday from 6pm to 10pm. Each match will be made up of three games and will be a race to 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Cramer also reminded that players should be present or at least signed or paid the $20 entry fee prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The $20 entry fee would entitle players to a $10 waterpark pass during the season, a league T-shirt, invitation to the draft banquet and a discount on all Meitetsu products that include Asahi, Pocari Sweat and Calpico Water at anytime while the league is in progress.<\/p>\n<p>For more information call Jon, Charles, Nan or Cole at 235-6231 extension 5148 or 5147.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buff bodies and sexy babes will once again compete against one another as the 2nd Annual Asahi Co-ed Fours Beach Volleyball League gets underway starting April 30 at the Pacific Islands Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358","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=63358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}