{"id":86881,"date":"2005-01-02T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a1e43a47-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-01-02T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T07:15:00","slug":"a1e43a5b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a1e43a5b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NMASA, BANMI monthly this week<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association and the Basketball Association of the Northern Mariana Island will have their respective monthly meetings next week.<\/p>\n<p>The governing sports body of the CNMI will conduct its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, beginning 7:30pm at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium conference room.<\/p>\n<p>All board members of NMASA are required to attend the meeting. Sports associations sending athletes to the Palau 2005 South Pacific Mini Games must also send a representative to the meeting. Partial payment for airline tickets and per diem for sports associations and athletes going to Palau are due at this date.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees for December athletes and student athletes of the month would also be decided. NMASA also announced that board would be taking a vote on who will be enshrined in the NMASA Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>BANMI, meanwhile, would have its meeting tomorrow, Jan. 4, 2005, also at the Ada Gym conference room starting at 6:30pm. Topics to discussed in the agenda are the wrinkles in the ongoing 2004 Government Basketball League and updates about the 35-and-over Masters Basketball League and 25-and-under Basketball League.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the NMASA and BANMI meetings next week, contact the Ada Gym at 664-2503 and 664-2508.<\/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 Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association and the Basketball Association of the Northern Mariana Island will have their respective monthly meetings next week.<\/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-86881","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\/86881","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=86881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}