Local Sports

A daughter of a one of the island’s residents has been drafted into women’s team of the Mercer University Athletics, the campus Website reported two weekends ago. Mercer women’s basketball signed forward Samoana Ingram for the 2009-2010 season which assures her a slot in the Bears as freshman, and …

National player Jamie Ngirausui led the attack on defense and offense together with the rest of the ladies from team Bring It On. Taking advantage of missed shots and occasional turnovers of their opponent, Jamie and the crew dominated the whole first half of the match with a score of 21 – 4 and ma…

Armando dropped in 30 points for Team Islanders as him and the rest of his team mates were able to clobber team TurtleRiders with a score of 90 – 64. In other matches, Ngermid Rivals dominated team MEDA with a final tally of 94 – 70, while Division 1 Champs overpowered team Airwaves, 87 – 63. On th…

Locked at 70 – 70 with few ticks remaining in the regulation, both teams struggled to score that ended up in overtime. However at the start of the extra period, Surangel squad increased their intensity level with the help of their speedy guard Pingot and big man Manio who finished the match with 20…

Stan Olivera clocked in at 35 minutes and 22 seconds to win the Open class for men’s division where age range is from 19 – 35 years old. He was then followed by Palau High School student Yuri Ito who came in at a time of 47:05 to get second place whereas, Obichang Ongklungel came in 53 seconds late…

Kawabata, 29 and Okada, 25 were among the participants of last Saturday’s Tagaman Triathlon. They joined one of Saipan’s major sport events as exchange triathletes from Japan. For the past few years, Tagaman Triathlon has sent two selected athletes to Japan and in return, have invited two selected …

Tigilau who shot 71 during the RGA qualifying round earlier this month was 10 strokes lower. He shot 83 and netted 61.   The 22-handicapepr struggled in the front nine shooting 7-over par 43 but improved in the back nine with 4-over par 40. Ben Bae won the second place as he shot 87 for a net of 63…

Games will be played on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. There will be a limit of 12 total teams in the league. Please note that there is one important change in this Spring league.   In the past, players have been allowed to sign up and pay lat…

As an organization that promotes the hotel industry of our islands, HANMI hosts this event each year to help reach out and provide education about tourism as well as assistance to the community.   HANMI targets 140 players to participate in the one-day event at the Coral Ocean Point. There are a nu…

But at Hole 13, a par three green, Marianas Variety News & Views publisher Abed Younis, using a three wood, made a historic hole in one. “At first, he did not know that his golf ball went into the cup.  But his other foursome group started to jump up and down, shouting ‘Hole-In-one, Hole-In-One…