Local Sports

KOROR (Palau Horizon) – Graced by officials of the Palau Basketball Federation, a representative of the major sponsor, Shell Palau, and team coaches/players joined the opening of this year’s newly formatted and freshly named Shell Amateur Basketball League (ABL) at the Palau National Gymnasium. A s…

The Triathlon which starts on Saturday morning at 6 a.m., will feature a 250m ocean swim for 13 & under novice swimmers starting at 11 AM and then the main Rainbow Ocean Swim that kicks off at 12 noon. The main swim will showcase the 500, 1000, 1500, 3000, and 5000 meter races. As part of the R…

In line with their 25th anniversary celebration PPR has once again features another sports activity in a form of a Walk and Run. The event will take place on Saturday, 28th of November where everyone is invited to meet at PPR’s Tennis Courts. Registrations pegged at $5.00 per participant will kick …

Manacop who braved Asian and other Pacific ace bowlers along with his Saipan team mates, Percy Omechelang, Kitz Barja and Alex Castro struck a total of 1,776 pins to win the eighth place. His best feat was in Game 7 eking out 256 pinfalls. Choi Suk Byung of Daegu, Korea topped the Masters’ event wi…

drew a size of crowd promising enough for something new organized by the children themselves. With the IT&E, Boarderline, Monster, Gatorade, Triple J Wholesale, Duty Free Shop and Pacific Island Club behind, the skate competition was the first to be organized collaboratively by the Island Skate…

Saipan’s Own Sport is the leader of innovations and it’s called Rocball. In volleyball, the equation of profit per play is limited to one point executions off any possible athletic skill, at any level of difficulty, from any area on court. When Rocball implemented offensive and defensive scoring an…

The NMI’s first Arm Wrestling Challenge drew men who wanted to test their arm strength at the Club V last Saturday marking the born of the new sports on the island. Most of the 25 to 30 audience were actually among those interested to join but since it was happening for the first time they wanted t…

The Basketball Association of Northern Mariana Islands is holding a meeting with all teams at 4:30 p.m., at the Gilbert C. Ada Gym conference to discuss the nominations for regular season MVP and scoring champions, according to league coordinator, Ponce Rasa Jr. The selection for regular season MVP…

The playoff was originally set for last Monday but since everybody was expected to be busy for the election and the rest of the week for the Thanksgiving celebration, the Basketball Association of Northern Mariana Islands decided to re-schedule it for the end of the month. With this, BANMI’s Gabrie…

Feger in an email said the Rocball which opened earlier this month, is moving temporarily from the Marianas High School Gym to a sand court from Jan. 1 to 3. Rocball tournaments had been played in the sand court before, Feger said. And since the late 1990s and the early part of this century Rocball…