{"id":240869,"date":"2016-11-18T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=240869"},"modified":"2016-11-18T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:00:58","slug":"alii-blue-haus-nears-perfect-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/alii-blue-haus-nears-perfect-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali\u2019i Blue Haus nears perfect record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240880\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/UFO-pix-13-198x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali\u2019i Blue Haus\u2019 Edwin Santos drives baseline and draws a foul on Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop\u2019s Raymond Tolentino during the third quarter of their game in the UFO caging last Tuesday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ali\u2019i Blue Haus boosted its bid for a perfect record in the regular season of the 2016 UFO\/IT&amp;E Inter-Organizational Basketball League following its 101-79 demolition of Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop last Tuesday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Ali\u2019i Blue Haus now has a 7-0 mark and could sweep the elimination round with a victory over Save More in last night\u2019s game. Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop, on the other hand, had its three-game winning streak snapped as it dropped to a 4-3 card.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop was still very much in the game at the end of the third period, behind by only 5, 66-71, and even took the lead momentarily, 63-61, off James Abuy\u2019s triple before Ali\u2019i Blue Haus stepped on the gas in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Ali\u2019i Blue Haus more than doubled Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop\u2019s output in the payoff period, 30-13, en route to the 22-point winning margin. Ed Diaz, Bart Demapan, and Elmer Esdrelon teamed up in Ali\u2019i Blue Haus\u2019 strong finish with the former scoring 7 of his 13 points in the fourth canto.  Demapan chipped in 6, while Esdrelon added 5 and the two Ali\u2019i Blue Haus players went on to lead their team after tallying 19 markers apiece. <\/p>\n<p>Five other Ali\u2019i Blue Haus players hit the board in their fourth-quarter surge, while Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop was held to five field goals as it had limited options on offense. Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop was without big man Jorge De Guzman and its youth reinforcement Michael Espinosa.<\/p>\n<p>Without its two key players, Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop relied heavily on Abuy and Arnold Arellano. Abuy had a game-high 28 points and was one of only two players on his team to make more than a field goal in the fourth period. Abuy had two triples, while Arellano drilled a triple and a layup to finish with 24 points. Jack Aranda was the third Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop to score in twin digits, but was held to 2 points in their fourth-quarter meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Ali\u2019i Blue Haus 101\u2014 Demapan 19,  Esdrelon 19, Manalo 14, E. Diaz 13, Guiab 8, Santos 8, Barbo 6, Pagarao 6, Patawaran 4, Devero 2, Fernandez 2.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen\u2019s Pawnshop 79 \u2014 Abuy 28, Arellano 24, Aranda 18, Van Buren 5, Tolentino 4.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring by quarters: 27-16, 50-42, 71-66, 101-79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali\u2019i Blue Haus boosted its bid for a perfect record in the regular season of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":240880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,7544,146,4788],"class_list":["post-240869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ada-gymnasium","tag-bart-demapan","tag-blue-haus","tag-jack-aranda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240869","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}