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Ada scored 20 points and helped protect the lead all the way to take the 69-54 victory during the final half of last Wednesday’s game of the Saipan Rotary Club Youth Basketball League at the Gilbert C. Ada Gym. With Matthew Duenas backing him up, Ada put up the strong lead in the first half. Savali…

Other notable changes: Armenian GM Levon Aronian gained 13 points but dropped to fourth place. Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan gained 18 to climb from 14th to sixth. Veterans Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler are up a few places, while Peter Leko is down from sixth to ninth. The unpredictable Vassily Iv…

DL Cooking Gas also inched its way up to the fifth place after defeating Triple J last Sunday with insurmountable lead. Eight teams, including the power houses, Star Water and Diamond Fixers will collide this weekend. The Fixers will play eighth placer Club Wonderful while the top guns, of Team E&a…

Gorilla Warfare MMA organizer, Jeff Boyer in an interview yesterday said the Confrontation that will be held on Nov. 21 at the Saipan World Resort is giving the NMI’s fighters the chance to wear the first ever title belt in MMA. In MMA events world wide, title belts are awarded to dominant fighters…

A team from Pohnpei, according to KQOD coordinator, Joey Dela Cruz is playing its debut game in the annual tournament that will be held at the Capital Hill Softball Field from Nov. 13 to 14. Participating teams will face each other in a two-day round robin. The other teams are the defending champio…

Ray Lizama, who was part of the CNMI squad that won silver medals in the 1994 Micronesian Games said he wants to bring NMI’s basketball community into another level by organizing the Masters Basketball Federation of the Northern Mariana Islands. Unlike the Basketball Association of Northern Mariana…

PTC needed to beat the Jaypers with an eight-point lead to hang on to dear life but top scorer, Perry Inos Jr., scored only two points to end the final quarter with a measly 68-65 result. Alex Lauron who helped keep the defense strong through out the game grabbing most rebounds scored 26 points, in…

Western Union basketball squad was very upbeat at the start of the first quarter as they played furiously on both ends of the court. They use up their offensive power focusing on team work notably on series of plays that led to back to back baskets midway to third canto. Super stars, Bong Alambra a…

MPIIC showed their supremacy to their opponent from Island Rhythm as they controlled the match and win 73 – 66. Outside shooters as well as second shots coming from outstanding rebounding skills from MPIIC helped them a lot in finally drubbing their assignment to move them step closer to the season…

After Emmaus High School stunned a powerful team from Palau High School in an exciting and thrilling match that left them grabbing the championship trophy of last year’s ISL – Basketball, another stimulating and breathtaking matches between high school rivals will be renewed as teams have prepared …