{"id":80990,"date":"2004-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9f4cabf9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"9f4cac0d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9f4cac0d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Restaurant league meeting today<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 2004 Inter-Restaurant Basketball League will hold its final meeting at 2pm today at Country House Restaurant. <\/p>\n<p>Representatives of participating teams are requested to attend the meeting. Team rosters, entrance fee, players\u2019 proof of employment will also be due this day.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the coming restaurant league, please call Koichi Tabei or Jake Villanueva at 233-1908.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fil-Taga monthly ace set this Sunday <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Fil-Taga Golfers Association will hold its May Ace of the Month Tournament this coming Sunday, May 16, at the Marianas Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament director Father Many Corcuera has set the show time for the May tournament at 11am with tee time scheduled 30 minutes later at 11:30am.<\/p>\n<p><b>DFS tennis kicks off May 21<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association will host the 23rd Annual DFS Micronesian Tennis Championships beginning on May 21. <\/p>\n<p>The longest-running tennis tournament on Saipan will be held on two weekends May 21-23 and May 29-31. The first weekend will feature action in the adult doubles and junior singles, while the second week will be for adult singles and junior doubles. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact tournament directors Dr. Mohammad Ashraf at 256-1215 or e-mail him at ashmdr@hotmail.com or Delia Johnson at 235-6854.<\/p>\n<p><b>Swim lessons up <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Swim Club will once again attempt to make swimmers of land-lovers.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on June 7 through 18, the SSC will conduct swim lessons from 7:30am to 8:30am at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>To pre-register please call either Bill Sakovich at 322-9990 or Mike Villagomez at 256-5668 or leave a message on the answering machines. Those interested are requested to leave their names and other pertinent information like level of swimming and contact numbers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rotary golf tourney this Saturday<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 6th Annual Rotary Club of Saipan Goodwill Golf Tournament will tee off this Saturday at the Coral Ocean Point Resort Golf Course. <\/p>\n<p>A total of six flights are up for grabs in the tournament. They are Championship Flight for players with 0-8 handicap; A Flight for players with 9-13 handicap; B Flight for players 14-18 handicap; C Flight for players 19 handicap and up; Ladies Flight and Seniors Flight for golfers 55 years old and up.<\/p>\n<p>First place in each category receives $500 and a trophy, while second place and third place takes home $300 and $200, respectively, plus trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Early registration costs $125 and should be paid no later than May 10. Late registration, meanwhile, costs $150. Showtime is set at 10:30am and shotgun start begins at exactly 12pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the yearly Rotary golf tournament, please call Ed Salas at 234-5050; Karl Reyes at 664-8088; Kim Forrester at 287-8885; and Scott Hagen at 235-3041.<\/p>\n<p><b>UFO caging eyes May 30 start<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The United Filipino Organization is revving up for a May 30 start for its 5th Annual UFO Inter-Organization Basketball League.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the popular all-Filipino cage league was designed so that the league will be at full throttle for the 106th Philippine Independence Day celebrations on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>The May 30 opening would also coincide with the planned 2004 Palarong Filipino festivities of the Filipino community.<\/p>\n<p>All interested member organizations of the UFO that wish to join the basketball league, may contact Ramon Awit at 234-5424 or Roland Pamintuan at 234-8391 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Restaurant league meeting today<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 2004 Inter-Restaurant Basketball League will hold its final meeting at 2pm today at Country House Restaurant. <\/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-80990","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\/80990","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=80990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}