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All Schools, Goodwill ping-pong top headlines
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Posted on May 20 2012
The PSS/McDonald’s 9th Annual All Schools Track and Field Championships and the 17th Goodwill Table Tennis Tournament topped sports headlines last week.
The All Schools got off to a running start last Wednesday with national track and field members Michael Macao and Reylyn Sarong winning their respective boys and girls U18 800m races at the Oleai Sports Complex.
Marianas High School’s Macao won the 800m in a time of 2.06.65, while Sapong, also of MHS, took the girls race in 2.59.14.
A visiting team from South Korea, for its part, took home the team championship of the Goodwill ping-pong tournament held last May 12 at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.
The three-person Korean A team made up of Cheon Yeong Cheol, Jeong Mi Jeong, and Choi In Kyu finished with an immaculate 5-0 win-loss record in the one-day round-robin competition.
In the doubles competition, Korea A’s Cheon teamed up with Saipan B’s Park Tae Won to win the division. Korea A’s Cheon and teammate Jeong took home the best singles players award.
Marianas High School’s boys and girls outriggers squads, for their part, came away the champions of the Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization 2012 season after defeating Saipan Southern High School’s respective teams in the boys and girls finals held last May 12 in waters off Killili Beach.
In the May Budweiser King and Queen of the Lanes Tenpin Bowling Tournament, youngster Raphael Zapanta and veteran kegler Ron Cal won their respective men’s and women’s divisions last weekend to top roll-offs at the Saipan Bowling Center.
M.J. Aldan, for his part, fired a tournament-high 212 in his third game en route to winning the Fiji Water Prince/Princess of the Lanes Tenpin Bowling Tournament for May last Sunday at the Saipan Bowling Center.
It was the third straight month that Aldan was hailed Prince of the Lanes after also triumphing in March and April.
Games in the Saipan Major League, Saipan Little League, Domino Lux caging, Northern Mariana Islands Football Association, Carolinian softball, and Marianas Interscholastic Sports Organization softball also continued last week.
