{"id":179791,"date":"2014-09-22T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=179791"},"modified":"2014-09-22T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:39","slug":"pic-clinches-inter-hotel-caging-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pic-clinches-inter-hotel-caging-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"PIC clinches Inter-Hotel caging crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pacific<\/a>
Pacific Island Club\u2019s Jack Aranda drives against Shirley\u2019s Coffee Shop\/Century Hotel\u2019s Erick Dela Rosa during the third quarter of their title game in the Inter-Hotel caging last Friday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nPacific Islands Club Saipan hardly broke a sweat in cruising to an easy 94-69 win over a bewildered Shirley\u2019s-Century Hotel side to claim the 2014 Budweiser Inter-Hotel Basketball League crown late Friday night at the packed Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n

PIC showed no signs of rust after the one-game finals was delayed for more than a week due to the availability of the Ada Gym and both teams.<\/p>\n

The Noel Verder-mentored squad used their height advantage to the hilt in pulling away midway in the second period.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s big man Erick Dela Rosa and sweet-shooting John Jugos kept their team within striking distance, 24-21, with barely two minutes gone in the second.<\/p>\n

But PIC used a 7-0 spurt to erect a 10-point bubble that further ballooned as the game went on.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s could not find an answer for PIC\u2019s full-court trapping defense that prevented them to set up their offense. A number of times Shirley\u2019s ballhandlers committed back court violations that further hurt their campaign.<\/p>\n

There were times that Shirley\u2019s managed to get the ball on their frontcourt but PIC\u2019s defense was still there, using a 2-3 zone that blocked the driving lanes while their outside shooters couldn\u2019t also find their mark.<\/p>\n

PIC enjoyed a 43-33 halftime lead then completely broke the game wide open with a 13-3 exchange to erect the first of several 20-point leads.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s failed to come up with a decent rally after that with shooter Rommel Usi and veteran playmaker Fredel Sedillo riding the bench for most of the game for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n

The closest that they could get was at 19, 66-47, on Dela Rosa\u2019s coast-to-coast layup with two minutes and 54 seconds left in the third.<\/p>\n

PIC\u2019s biggest lead was at 86-58 in the three-minute mark of the contest with the final score the only thing left to be settled.<\/p>\n

Bart Demapan paced PIC with 19 points, while veteran James Abuy and the youthful Jack Aranda chipping in 18 and 17 markers.<\/p>\n

Darwin Barbo had a quiet 15 points and made several unselfish plays setting up teammates Demapan and Aranda.<\/p>\n

Dela Rosa led Shirley\u2019s losing cause with 21 points, Jugos finished with 15, while Usi and Angel Catungal combined for 20 markers.<\/p>\n

Pacific Islands Club 94 \u2013 Demapan 19, Abuy 18, Aranda 17, Barbo 15, Hambros 9, Quitugua 8, Babauta 2, Bartolo 2, Tolentino 2.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s-Century Hotel 69 \u2013 Dela Rosa 21, Jugos 15, Catungal 10, Usi 10, Aguilar 9, Manibusan 2, Rabasto 2.<\/p>\n

Scoring by quarters: 22-15, 43-33, 72-47, 94-69. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pacific Islands Club Saipan hardly broke a sweat in cruising to an easy 94-69 win…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":179800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,296,159,409],"class_list":["post-179791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ada-gymnasium","tag-dela-rosa","tag-pacific-islands-club","tag-pic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179791","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}