{"id":86182,"date":"2004-12-05T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a18b0965-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-12-05T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:42:00","slug":"a18b0976-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a18b0976-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DCCA LAUNCHES CHRISTMAS HOOP TORUNEY<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs announced they will host the 2004 Christmas Basketball Tournament from Monday, Dec. 27 through Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The basketball tournament is open to 14-and-under basketball teams. The DCCA said the Top 3 finishers of the eight-team tournament will get trophies and possibly cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches and managers are requested to submit their rosters and entry fees as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will be limited to a maximum of 15 players, and the deadline to enter the tournament is Friday, Dec. 17. <\/p>\n<p>The cost to register a team for the first ever event is $50, and the first eight teams to pay are guaranteed slots to the tourney. All others will be left to participate by cheering on the action from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>All interested coaches and managers must attend a tournament meeting on Thursday, Dec. 9 in the conference room of the Ada Gym at 11am. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact tournament director Jonathan Tenorio by calling 664-2503\/8.<\/p>\n<p>MOBIL CAGING SETS JAN. 11 START<\/p>\n<p>The 2005 Mobil Oil Marianas Invitational Co-ed Basketball League will kick off tentatively on Jan. 11, 5pm at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>The Mobil co-ed basketball league is comprised of 2004 champion Aqua Resort Club, Pacific Development, Inc., Microl-Toyota, Tan Holdings Corp., Dai-Ichi Hotel Saipan Beach, Hyatt Regency Saipan, Commonwealth Utilities Corp, Pacific Island Aviation, Commonwealth Ports Authority, and host Mobil Oil Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the 2005 Mobil Oil Marianas Invitational Co-ed Basketball League, please call Abner Venus at 287-5911 or Jojo Dadivas at 483-3363.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs announced they will host the 2004 Christmas Basketball Tournament from Monday, Dec. 27 through Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/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-86182","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\/86182","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=86182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}