{"id":85997,"date":"2004-11-28T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a1738b3b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-11-28T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T05:27:00","slug":"a1738b4f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a1738b4f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHESS CLUB LOOKING FOR PLAYERS<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI Chess Association is calling on all pawn-pushers in the Commonwealth to join their practice sessions every Sunday at 2pm at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Rey Yana at 234-6529.<\/p>\n<p>TAGA TENNIS SET DEC. 1 <\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Annual Taga Tennis Tournament is set to kick off at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Tennis Association-organized event rolls off with doubles competition on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and it will run until Dec. 5. Singles play and mixed doubles takeover the following week from Dec. 6 to Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Entry fee is set at $10 per event for members and $15 per event for nonmembers. Entry forms can be picked up at the AMP tennis courts bulletin board or at the Las Vegas Discount Golf &#038; Tennis in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Annual Taga Tennis Tournament is sponsored by Pacific Trading Co., USS Peleliu Club, and Yuichiro\u2019s Printing Design<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the 2nd Annual Taga Tennis Tournament, please call club president Roy Pangelinan at 256-7769, vice president-internal Nelia Luna at 288-5151 or 287-0859, vice president-external Ricky Castro at 234-7426, and officers Richard Asuncion at 287-0856, Babu Malayil at 286-9745, and Lope Padilla at 286-9733. Those interested can also email STA at Saipan_tennis@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n<p>$1K TOP POOL BAR TOURNEY THIS DECEMBER<\/p>\n<p>The Top Pool Bar $1,000 Open 9-Ball Tournament will be held on the weekend of Dec. 18 and 19 from 7pm to 2am. <\/p>\n<p>The contest will have a 32-man field and will be a single elimination, race to seven wins series. Only eight players will remain after the first day with the final players contesting the Top 3 money places the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Entry fee for the billiard event is $30 per person and pairings will be done through a draw, which date will be announced at a later time. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Top Pool Bar $1,000 Open 9-Ball Tournament, please call 233-6999 and look for Zheng Jian Qing or Velma Fleming. Zheng can also be reached on his mobile phone 287-7676.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Chess Association is calling on all pawn-pushers in the Commonwealth to join their practice sessions every Sunday at 2pm at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/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-85997","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\/85997","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=85997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}