{"id":86714,"date":"2004-12-26T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a1d02915-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-12-26T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T06:03:00","slug":"a1d02928-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a1d02928-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NMI Crime Stoppers Slow Pitch Softball next month<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Annual NMI Crime Stoppers Slow Pitch Softball Tournament will run through January 7, 8,and 9 at the Oleai Sports Complex softball field.<\/p>\n<p>The champion of the three-day softball event pockets $300, while second place and third place takes home $200 and $150, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the regular softball competition, the tournament will also host two categories of homerun derbies.<\/p>\n<p>Entry cost per team is $250, and the cost to enter the homerun derbies is $20 per individual. All checks should be made out to NMI Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact Eric David by calling 664-9022, Jim Ripple by calling 235-2302, or Jerry Ayuyu by calling 664-9127.<\/p>\n<p>SML teams told to prepare for 2005<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Major League Baseball Association is informing teams interested in joining the upcoming 2005 season to start preparations for the February opening. <\/p>\n<p>Teams are advised to start securing sponsors immediately and not wait for February to arrive. <\/p>\n<p>Teams are allowed to field rosters of not more than 25 players and must be finalized before opening day. Entrance fee is $1,200 and should be made payable under the name of the Saipan Major League.<\/p>\n<p>Interested individuals or teams are asked to contact SML president Rose igitol at 288-5426, vice president Bob Coldeen at 235-KMCV, or league coordinator, Tony Rogolifoi at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium at 664-2508.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd Annual NMI Crime Stoppers Slow Pitch Softball Tournament will run through January 7, 8,and 9 at the Oleai Sports Complex softball field.<\/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-86714","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\/86714","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=86714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}