By Roselyn B. Monroyo
Variety News Staff

IT will be a busy weekend for the football community with the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association holding games in the interscholastic, youth, women’s and men’s divisions starting today and continuing through Sunday on various fields.
Today at 6 p.m. at the Oleai Sports Complex Field, the Saipan Southern High School and Mt. Carmel School will collide for the interscholastic championship.
The public is encouraged to watch the first-ever interscholastic title duel between the Knights and the Manta Rays.
Tomorrow morning, the 2007 Women’s Recreational Football League will be holding its Week 2 games with the Smith’s Bella Ballers battling a co-ed youth team at 8:15 on the CPA Field.
In the second game, PIC’s Paradise in Cleats will take on Marianas Eye Institute at 10 a.m.
In the afternoon, it will be the turn of the youth league with games to take place on the San Vicente Elementary School and Garapan fields.
In the U6 division in San Vicente, the Stingrays will face the Marlins at 1 p.m., while the Sharks will collide with the Marlins White at 2 p.m.
The U8 will also have two games in San Vicente with the Sharks Blue battling the Marlins Gold at 3 p.m. and the Stingrays dueling the Marlins at 4 p.m.
Still in San Vicente, the U10 Stingrays will meet the Marlins U10A at 12:30 p.m. For the 1:30 p.m. match, the Sharks White will challenge the Marlins Gold.
In will be an inter-zone game in Garapan for the U10 division with the Sharks facing the Sharks Blue at 12:30 p.m.
In the 12 division, the Stingrays will collide with the Marlins at 4:45 p.m. in San Vicente, while the Shark Blue and U10-All-Stars game will take place in Garapan at 4:45 p.m.
On Sunday, the NMI Men’s Nationals will scrimmage with at Inter-dependents.
Game time is 4 p.m. at Oleai field.