{"id":7142,"date":"2011-12-03T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2011-12-03T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T08:00:14","slug":"b-fanihi-frontrunner-ousted-from-bud-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/b-fanihi-frontrunner-ousted-from-bud-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"B-Fanihi frontrunner ousted from Bud Cup"},"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\/issx9999ns114703.jpg\" alt=\"Es'y Kitchen's SOS Jokers beat Naked Fish Bar &amp; Grill's top-ranked Echoserong Kamote's out of the running for SEDA's postseason Budweiser Cup tournament last Thursday. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 The Saipan Electronic Dart Association&#8217;s Ladies Division, Master&#8217;s, and B-Flame Tree frontrunners are still in contention for the coveted Bud Cup trophy, while B-Fanihi&#8217;s top seed Echoserong Kamote&#8217;s stumbled in this week&#8217;s opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies Division&#8217;s Try Luck of D&#8217;Pirates Bar, Master Division&#8217;s IT&amp;E Kamote&#8217;s of Es&#8217;y Kitchen, and B-Flame Tree&#8217;s Gaiana-B of Bar Gaia all advanced to the semifinal round, while B-Fanihi&#8217;s Echoserong Kamote&#8217;s of Naked Fish Bar &amp; Grill fell victim to an upset by second-ranked SOS Akiramenai, 6-9, in their road match held at Es&#8217;y Kitchen Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>B-Fanihi&#8217;s SOS will be paired against Gaia&#8217;s World B, which dropped VFW Post 3457&#8217;s Dutty Gunz, 8-6 on the road on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The other semifinalists feature Es&#8217;y&#8217;s Kitchenshooters against Oh Yeah!.<\/p>\n<p>The Kitchenshooters upset No Fear, 8-4 at home, while Oh Yeah! went into Jonny&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill and bested Sekid, 8-5, to advance through the first round.<\/p>\n<p>At Jonny&#8217;s on Monday, top-ranked Try Luck pounced on runner-up Man-Amigas, 8-2, winning via concession after 10 games to advance to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny&#8217;s Island Girls made it past Joe&#8217;s Steakhouse&#8217;s Just Like That, 8-6, at home and will try its luck against the frontrunner in a home draw on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s winner will challenge the winner between D&#8217;Pirates&#8217; Star Magic and Joe&#8217;s Daffodils in the finals on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p>In the Master Division, IT&amp;E Kamote&#8217;s clinched a semifinals berth, 9-4, in a road draw over runner-up and sister team SOS Jokers last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>IT&amp;E will take on D-Pirates&#8217; M-Destroyers, which knocked out its sister team D&#8217;Companeros, 9-1, in a road draw.<\/p>\n<p>These two contenders will square off next Monday with the victor facing the winner between Jonny&#8217;s Azkals and the Snipers.<\/p>\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s Flame Tree round, Gaiana-B took down second-ranked Sabalu Boys, 8-5, at D&#8217;Pirates and will face Joe&#8217;s TBA Oneshot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>TBA Oneshot edged out Chagi Sang, 8-7, on the road at D&#8217;Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Naked Fish&#8217;s Na&#8217;Gupu and Joe&#8217;s Skoregazzzums make up the other semifinal pairing.<\/p>\n<p>Na&#8217;Gupu squeaked past D&#8217;Pirates Lucky Shot, 8-7, on the road, while the Skoregazzzums routed Why Not, 8-3, in a road draw held at its home bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0 The Saipan Electronic Dart Association&#8217;s Ladies Division, Master&#8217;s, and&#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-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","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=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}