Veteran gunner Tony Diaz won his scoring duel with Allen Reyes in leading Docomo Pacific to a 92-79 victory over Top Development Inc. in the continuation of action in the 2015 JP World Corp. Customer Appreciation Basketball League last Monday night at the TSL Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
Diaz scored 32 points beating Reyes\u2019 31 as Docomo along with Saipan Ice joined Marianas Resort and Tan Holdings in the win column.<\/p>\n
Commonwealth Utilities Corp. was battling Marianas Brokers Inc. and Joeten Enterprises were playing against McDonald\u2019s at press time.<\/p>\n
Diaz poured in 13 of his 16 first half points in the second period to help Docomo erect a 54-33 lead at the turn.<\/p>\n
Docomo was never threatened after that and always had an answer to TDI\u2019s repeated comeback tries to cruise to the double-digit win.<\/p>\n
Robert Sanciangco, Melvin Manibusan, and Richard Mendiola combined for 32 points to back up Diaz\u2019s game-long brilliance. Three other players\u2014Conrad Sablan, Rick Sanchez, and Jaynard White turned in 8 markers each, while Jayson Hayes had 4 to end Docomo\u2019s scoring.<\/p>\n
Raymond Velasco also had a productive output for TDI with 29, while Jeron Reyes had a quiet 11 markers.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Saipan Ice held Cape Air to a free throw in the opening period in coasting to a lopsided 78-41 decision.<\/p>\n
Derick Rangamar was on fire for Saipan Ice as he scattered 27 points to lead their team\u2019s offensive onslaught while John Santy collected 21 markers.<\/p>\n
Michael Welson and Treat Kaipat each contributed 12 and 11 points also for Saipan Ice, which enjoyed a 60-27 spread entering the final 10 minutes of play.<\/p>\n
Only four players scored for Saipan Ice with James Yanrulu and Benedict Canete ending up with 14 and 13 markers, while George Camacho and Isiah Tamalo finishing with 8 and 6 points apiece.<\/p>\n
First Game<\/strong> Cape Air 41 \u2013 Yanrulu 14, Canete 13, Camacho 8, Tamalo 6.<\/p>\n Scoring by quarters: 22-1, 44-17, 60-27, 78-41.<\/p>\n Second Game<\/strong> TDI 79 \u2013 A. Reyes 31, Velasco 29, J. Reyes 11, Arreza 5, Polisco 5.<\/p>\n Scoring by quarters: 22-21, 54-33, 71-56, 92-79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran gunner Tony Diaz won his scoring duel with Allen Reyes in leading Docomo Pacific…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6270,979,1300,6271],"class_list":["post-206692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-allen-reyes","tag-cape-air","tag-saipan-ice","tag-tdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206692","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=206692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaipan Ice 78 \u2013 Rangamar 27, Santy 21, Welson 12, Kaipat 11, Smith 5, Cayading 2.<\/p>\n
\nDocomo 92 \u2013 Diaz 32, Sanciangco 12, Manibusan 11, Mendiola 9, Sablan 8, Sanchez 8, White 8, Hayes 4.<\/p>\n