{"id":202306,"date":"2015-05-22T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=202306"},"modified":"2015-05-22T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:00:37","slug":"pss-basa-clinches-three-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pss-basa-clinches-three-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"PSS\u2019 Basa clinches three awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston Basa collected three individual awards in the Inter Commercial Business Basketball League after Tuesday night\u2019s finals between Fiesta Resort &#038; Spa-Saipan and Pacific Islands Club Saipan at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-202306 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pss-basa-clinches-three-awards\/icbblpix2\/'>icbblpix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-202313'>\n\t\t\t\tPacific Islands Club-Saipan players show the pennant champion and finals runner-up trophies they received during the awards ceremony for the Inter-commercial caging last Tuesday night at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pss-basa-clinches-three-awards\/icblpix1\/'>icblpix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-202314'>\n\t\t\t\tRegular season most valuable player Preston Basa of the Public School System poses with his trophy during the awards ceremony for the Inter-commercial caging last  Tuesday night at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Basa was the scoring champion, beating Patrick Rotap of Saipan Ice by a narrow margin. The Public School System chief gunner tallied 230 points in nine games in the elimination round, giving him a 25.5 points per game average or 0.4 ahead of Rotap\u2019s 25.1 (226). Docomo Pacific\u2019s Tony Diaz came in third with 24.4 or 220 points total.<\/p>\n<p>Basa was also the league\u2019s 3-point king after draining 51 3-pointers or a 5.66 average. Rotap (29) and PIC\u2019s Jack Aranda(18) finished second and third with 3.2 and 2.0, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The two awards were enough for Basa to claim the regular season most valuable player honors. Other awardees were Fiesta\u2019s Elmer Esdrelon, IT&#038;E\u2019s Jason Palacios, and Saipan Ice teammates Ben Olopai and John Santy.<\/p>\n<p>Esdrelon was the league\u2019s top passer after issuing close to five assists per game with his 4.8 average. He had nine assists in Fiesta\u2019s 75-71 title win over PIC to go along with his 12 points, 11 rebounds, and two steals. Jerry Diaz of PSS and IT&#038;E\u2019s Nate Mateo averaged 4.1 and 3.3 per game to end up second and third behind Esdrelon.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios topped the steals department with an average of 3.8 per game, while Saipan Ice\u2019s Joel Fernandez and Esdrelon logged in 3.6 and 3.0, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Olopai and Santy figured prominently in the blocks and rebounds departments with the former becoming the King of Swat with a 2.6 average, followed by the latter\u2019s 2.2. Rick Sanchez of Docomo was third in blocks (0.8). Santy was the league\u2019s No. 1 rebounder with his 12.5 a game, followed by Joeten Enterprises\u2019 Alex Lauron (10.6) and Olopai (10.5).<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta\u2019s Matt Duenas was named the finals MVP after finishing with 18 points, 13 in the first half where his team enjoyed a 40-32 lead at the break. He also had five rebounds, three assists, five steals, and one block. Fiesta, behind Lerio Pagarao\u2019s game-long brilliance, dealt PIC its first loss in the league.<\/p>\n<p>PIC, aside from its runner-up finish, won the pennant, while Joeten Enterprises, which dropped a 91-71 contest against Fiesta in their knockout semis encounter, placed third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston Basa collected three individual awards in the Inter Commercial Business Basketball League after Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":202313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4788,4267,409,1300],"class_list":["post-202306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jack-aranda","tag-patrick-rotap","tag-pic","tag-saipan-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202306","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}