Local Sports

This is after four years of the local group’s hard work in bringing up football in the CNMI. Tan said NMIFA’s membership was formally relayed to them last week following the unanimous adoption of the resolution during the executive committee meeting last July 15. “We are very excited about this ass…

Then Manglona followed what Sahji Hossain led off in the second half to give Kagman Sparks the winning stance against Young 670 Rollers during last Tuesday’s game of the Saipan Rotary Club Youth Basketball League at the Gilbert C. Ada Gym. The Young 670 Rollers held their ground showing they were n…

Seman shot one stroke under par 35 in the back nine and set the net to beat last Aug. 15. He even pared 36 in the front nine and finished with a gross of 71. Last Sunday, Jesse I. Wabol and Tony Rogolifoi were both nine strokes away from beating Seman. They both earned a net of 72 but Wabol won the…

The Fixers tightened their defense to protect their lead in the final quarter.    But George De Guzman duplicating Barrios’ surge, Cooking Gas managed to cut the lead in the final few minutes of the game. Barrios paced the Fixers offense and although many of his attempts turned unsuccessful he made…

The Gorilla Warfare MMA Inc., in its partnership with Universal Reality Combat Championship plans to bring him back on Saipan for a non-title match with a top contender either from NMI or Guam, according to GWMMA organizers. Folayang who defeated Jerome Norita by technical knock out during the Gori…

With the decree, each National Sport Federation needs to select a member / representative to the team Palau Organizing Committee to jumpstart the planning and grounding of the forthcoming sporting occasion. The first meeting for team Palau is scheduled for Thursday, September 3 at the Palau Nationa…

Omsangel made use of their balance offensive attack and aggressive zone defense at the other end of the court as they scored time and time again in which MOE had a hard time stopping. The momentum of the MOF continued on the entire match until their opponent was clearly not capable to put a come ba…

With an enormous lead, 83 – 68, heading towards the last quarter of the match only to see it dwindled to a single digit point courtesy of an impressive run put up by the Surangel cagers that inched their way in trying to tie the ballgame, Western Union got themselves regrouped and made changes that…

Julian Reyes picked up foul and made his two penalty shots then, Jeffrey Quitugua fired a three-point shot to give ARFF the six-point lead at the end of the first quarter. JP Sablan who registered five points in the first quarter continued to sizzle with eight points to cut the lead to four points,…

From 9 a.m. onwards, eight players from each team will play single matches on a round robin format. MATTA’s Budhi Gurung said whichever team gets the highest number of wins will be awarded the championship trophy. Guung recalled that last year, Tinian defeated Saipan 43-21. Among 16 selected player…