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SML pennant championship still up for grabs
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Posted on Jun 28 2005
For the most part, the 2005 campaign of the Saipan Major League Baseball Association has been free from the influence for Mother Nature, but baseball’s biggest party crasher showed up to Francisco M. Palacios Baseball Field on Monday night to further delay the outcome of the pennant race.
While the postseason has been officially shelved in order that the Saipan delegation work together as a team to ready for next month’s South Pacific Mini Games in Palau, the league decided to press on with the final tiebreaker between the Northern Yankees and the defending champion Miller Lite Brewers for the top seed.
Rather than settle the season-long struggle on the diamond, the teams watched as the often transient rains hung around to rend the hallowed Oleai facility unplayable.
Both teams finished atop the league standings with identical records of 10-2, and the winner of tonight’s match-up will face the fourth seeded Budweiser Kings (6-6) in the first round of the playoffs when the all-stars return from Palau, while the losers will face the dangerous Ford Rangers (9-3).
The top three finishers of the regular season wrapped up their regular schedule within one game of each other, but the inconsistency of the Kings has earned them the underdog tag in the race to unseat the Brewers.
