Local Sports

Australia’s Scott Houston yesterday morning from Guam to stay here for four days. He will tour schools on Saipan and hold ping pong clinic at the Gilbert C. Ada Gym. He was invited by Steve Lim, president of Marianas Amateur Table Tennis Association a local sports group that continues to develop pi…

According to competition coordinators, the event which started last Saturday, 5th of September, shall be held for two more Saturdays that will showcase different teams aiming for extraordinarily designed awards. The race is detailed as 500 and 1,500 meter sprints on September 19 while the middle di…

With an appointment of a two year term from September 2009 to October 2011, the National Development Program or NDP named Johnny Kintaro as the head coach of the men’s squad having Burton Wong and Yutaka Gibbons Jr. as his assistant coaches. Head coaching for the women’s team will be George Domingo…

Commencing on the 21st of September and concludes on October 2, Secretary General Baklai Temengil of PNOC announced that the athletes who will be performing to their fullest at the stages of the Mini Games are Bella Reklai, Frances Tkel, Douglas Schmidt, Leon Mengloi, and Stevic Patris accompanied …

The Sparks gave Celtics a tightened grip early in the first half as Manglona banked three points. Frank Mettao also went ablaze firing eighth points for the Sparks four-point advantage in the first half. The Sparks put up a full court defense forcing the Celtics to fumble with their ball possession…

BANMI board member, Abner Venus who estimated that the ongoing IT&E Inter-government & Business Basketball League and the Saipan Rotary Club Youth Basketball League will be done by the end of October, said that they plan to further help the youth bring out their talents by having another le…

Guiang helped the Archers boost to a four-point lead in the first quarter. Sam Fernandez blasted from behind the arc Francis Rebuyon reaped five points from penalty shots ending the first half in a 32-32 deadlock. Guiang did not score in the third quarter and Star Water pulled away as Jessie Mina f…

As the swimming federation tries to get water polo going here on the island, a volunteer, Navot Bornovski, will be running a camp for any interested individual or group every Saturday starting in the month of September from 4:30-6:00 P.M. in the afternoon. Mr. Bornovski will educate interested peop…

After bowing down on their first meeting, the ATT – Jaguar tries to even up the series between them and the powerful Rangers team at the Filipino basketball matches on Sunday. Rangers will have to rely on their man in the middle, Jay Naguit to pound feisty Jaguar on the paint with his mid range sho…

Earl dropped in only 7 points on the early half of an exhilarating basketball action between Cops and Mercury but was able to find his shooting range later in the third and fourth canto in which he totaled 18 points while team mates Marlon Bechab and Duron contributed on the attack with 17 and 14 p…