By Roselyn B. Monroyo
Variety News Staff

THE Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association elected 10 directors to the NMASA board during the association’s monthly meeting last Thursday.
Elected to the board were tennis’ Jeff Race, Baseball’s Rose Igitol and Tony Rogolifoi, swimming’s Mike Stewart, basketball’s Elias Rangamar, volleyball’s Jon Cramer, golf’s Jess Wabol, athletics’ Robin Sapong, wrestling’s Joe Ocampo and current NMASA president Michael White.
The board is expected to hold another meeting next month to elect its officers for the 2007 season.
Meanwhile, White is reminding sports associations that will be sending athletes to the Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa in August of the payment for the quadrennial meet.
The second installment is due on Feb. 1 with the sports federations required to pay $640 per athlete.
NMASA broke down into four months the schedule for each sports association to pay the cost of the Samoa trip.
On Dec. 1 last year, sports federations were asked to pay $320 per athlete. The third installment is set for April 1 ($960), while the fourth and last is set for June 1 ($1,280).
The total cost to send one athlete to Samoa is $3,200.
The cost could have been cut had the NMI had a bigger delegation to the Pacific Games.
But only six sports will be sending athletes to Apia and a charter flight, which could provide NMI athletes a lower airfare costs, is not possible.
Beach volleyball will be sending four athletes and a coach, while athletics has three, sailing has two, golf has six, surfing has three and tennis has two.