{"id":131232,"date":"2009-03-15T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b3a98e9a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2009-03-15T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:14:00","slug":"b3a98ead-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/b3a98ead-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Two take lead in Bud Cup statistical race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing 2008-2009 BANMI\/Budweiser Basketball League has two new leaders in the statistical race.<\/p>\n<p>The Runnin\u2019 Rebels\u2019 Syl Teregeyo dislodged Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 Gabriel White from the top spot in the rebounds department with the former collaring  94 boards in 10 games. White dropped to fourth with his 77.<\/p>\n<p>In second place is IT&#038;E\u2019s Kae Bernardo with 81,  while Docomo\u2019s Christopher Paul is in third with 78. Completing the Top 5 was Docomo\u2019s Kelvin Fitial (75), while rounding off the Top 10 were  the Runnin\u2019 Rebels\u2019 Ben Lisua (66), Quichocho\u2019s Larry Palero (63), Docomo\u2019 James Villacrusis (58), IT&#038;E\u2019s Gyles Ruluked (56), and Quichocho\u2019s Bart Demapan (54).<\/p>\n<p>The assists department also has a new leader in IT&#038;E\u2019s Andres \u201cJun\u201d Estolas Jr., who had 50 feeds to edge former leader Jose Tumaquip (47) of the Runnin\u2019 Rebels. Jose dropped to third, as his younger brother,  Jomary, climbed to second with 49 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Making it to the Top 10 were  IT&#038;E\u2019s Wowie Abuel (40), Docomo\u2019s Joe Villacrusis (39), Quichocho\u2019s Bonbon Cadagat (36), Docomo\u2019s David Palacios 935), Diamond\u2019s Elmer Esdrelon (30), the Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 Elias Rangamar (28), and Quichocho\u2019s Jun Pantaleon (28).<\/p>\n<p>Ol\u2019Aces gunner Freddie Pelisamen and Joemary Tumaquip of the CNMI Nationals are still on top of the scoring and steals categories, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 games, Pelisamen scored 324 points to keep his lead against second placer Cadagat (228). In third place is the Nationals\u2019 Pete Iguel (221), followed by Bernardo (174), the Runnin\u2019 Rebels\u2019 Jesus Iguel (156) and Jose Tumaquip (155), Quichocho\u2019s Sonny Lerio (150), Estolas (147), the National\u2019s Marvin Rabauliman (142), and Esdrelon (141).<\/p>\n<p>Jomary has recorded 44 steals,  five more than Jesus Iguel\u2019s 39. In third place is the Runnin\u2019 Rebels\u2019 Denard Norita (35), followed by Pete Iguel (33), Quichocho\u2019s Leo Itaas (31), Rabauliman (29), Esdrelon (27), White (24), Jose Tumaquip (24), and IT&#038;E\u2019s Peter Mendiola (22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing 2008-2009 BANMI\/Budweiser Basketball League has two new leaders in the statistical race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}