{"id":904,"date":"2012-01-12T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T06:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2012-01-12T06:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T06:56:50","slug":"mhs1-gca-sweep-volleyball-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mhs1-gca-sweep-volleyball-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS1, GCA sweep volleyball opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Marianas High School varsity Lady Dolphins-MHS1 and the Grace Christian Academy Lady Eagles cruised to one-sided wins over separate opponents as the Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization girls volleyball season started on Tuesday at the MHS Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, both the junior and varsity Lady Geckos of Saipan International School also notched victories.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 runner-up MHS1 dominated newcomer Marianas Baptist Academy in three sets. MBA put up good fight, but fell short in the opening set, 17-25, before MHS1 stepped it up a level and secured the win, 25-6 in the next frame. MHS1 went on to take the final set, 15-6.<\/p>\n<p>GCA, meanwhile, grinded out a sweep over Kagman High School, 25-17, 25-21, and 15-11, but despite the final score KHS often showed signs of life during the match.<\/p>\n<p>SIS&#8217; junior varsity (SIS2) bested MHS2, 25-12, 25-14, but the latter finished strong and took the third set, 15-10, to save face.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the defending champion SIS1 was gifted its first win via a no-show forfeit by the Saipan Southern High School Lady Manta Rays.<\/p>\n<p>The season continues today at 4pm with MHS1 on a road draw against SIS2 at the north end and MBA hosting SSHS on the south court.<\/p>\n<p>Then at 5pm GCA takes on SIS1 on the north side and MHS2 calls KHS to the south square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter The Marianas High School varsity Lady Dolphins-MHS1 and the Grace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}