{"id":63386,"date":"2002-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/98a63111-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2002-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"98a63122-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/98a63122-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter-Government league tips off April 23<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Annual Inter-Government Basketball League is set to begin on Tuesday, April 23, at the Garapan basketball court.  <\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 teams have confirmed on taking part in the league.  Two games will be played every Tuesdays and Thursdays, while Saturday action will feature four games. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s opening game will be between defending champions Department of Community and Cultural Affairs and the Public School System.  The game will be immediately followed by the game between last year&#8217;s runner-up Department of Public Safety and Commonwealth Ports Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Game time is 6:30pm and 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Saturday&#8217;s games will start at 1pm. Second game is scheduled for 2:30pm, while the third game will tip-off at 4pm.  Final game on Saturdays will be at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Elias Rangamar or Jovie Omar at 234-1001\/2.<\/p>\n<p>BANMI meeting on April 18<\/p>\n<p>The Basketball Association of the Northern Marianas Islands announced that there would a meeting for the upcoming Island-Wide Basketball League on Thursday, April 18, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium Conference Room.  The meeting will begin at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>All interested teams are urged to attend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Abner Venus at 234-5911 or Elias Rangamar at 234-1001\/2.<\/p>\n<p>SAVA meeting on April 25<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Amateur Volleyball Association announced that there would be a meeting for all teams interested in the upcoming Island-Wide Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Volleyball League. The meeting is slated for Thursday, April 25, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium Conference Room at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Teams must submit rosters and entrance fees during the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>SAVA has proudly announced that the league will begin on Monday, April 29.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Jonas Barcinas at 664-5025\/5030 or Joe Mettao at 234-1001\/2.<\/p>\n<p>MGA April \u201cAce\u201d set<\/p>\n<p>Reminder to all MGA members that the April \u201cAce\u201d Tournament is set for this Sunday, April 21, at the Kingfisher Golf Links. Tee Time is 8:57am. Meeting Time is 8:30am. Also, be reminded that deadline for annual dues is at the end of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Annual Inter-Government Basketball League is set to begin on Tuesday, April 23, at the Garapan basketball court.  <\/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-63386","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\/63386","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=63386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}