{"id":84500,"date":"2004-10-02T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a0a76ea9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-10-02T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T04:37:00","slug":"a0a76eba-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a0a76eba-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial games, crucial wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a week of crucial games and teams rising up to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In the ongoing 2004 UFO-San Miguel Cup, Cabalen-RP Construction survived to fight another day after outlasting FASA-PABA-CNC Inc. in overtime last Sept. 25. The next day, it was the turn of defending champion Visminda-Country House, which nosed out SIP-Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>Inter-Restaurant Basketball League action had pennant winners Capricciosa taking its own sweet time before routing Jollibee Thursday morning. The Rotary league is also down to its homestretch with league-leader Sixers I only a win away from completing an unprecedented sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Football League, meanwhile, had the Miller Lite Barbarians rebounding from its opening day loss to Shell Cheifs by shutting out Verizon Nitro.<\/p>\n<p>In bowling, the CNMI sent two teams to compete in the 18th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships in Shah Alam, Malaysia, with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>Last week also saw the 4th Annual Miller 4-Person Beach Volleyball Tournament get served up at the Pacific Islands Club, Rocball action continue at the Marianas High School, and the 2004 Oceania Open and 18-and-under qualifiers for track and field concluded at the Oleai Sports Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a week of crucial games and teams rising up to the occasion.<\/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-84500","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\/84500","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=84500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}