By Roselyn B. Monroyo
Variety News Staff

FIESTA Resort & Spa grabbed the fourth and last semis slot in the 2006-2007 Inter-Hotel Basketball League/HANMI Cup, while Nikko Hotel made a decent exit after their separate victories.
Fiesta whipped Hafa Adai, 103-87, in the second game to improve its record to 5-2.
The win moved Fiesta to the No. 4 spot in the team standings joining Aqua Resort Club (7-0), Hyatt (6-2) and Pacific Islands Club (5-2) in the semifinals.
Only the final position of the top four teams will be contested with three games remaining in the regular season.
Elmer Esdrelon and Adonis Macoto led Fiesta’s victory drilling 27 and 20 points, respectively.
Actually, Hafa Adai took early control of the game with Pete Iguel firing 10 points and giving his team a 23-19 lead.
Fiesta grabbed the lead in the second quarter, 49-36, with Macoto exploding for 14 points in that period.
Iguel and Ronan Alcober tried to get the lead back in the third period, as they combined for 23 of their team’s 27 points in that canto. But Elmer Esdrelon was there to keep Fiesta in the driver’s seat hitting 13 markers.
Fiesta entered the fourth period hanging on to a 71-63 advantage and never looked back from thereon.
Esdrelon was later named PTI Best Player of the Game adding five rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Iguel led all scorers with 43 points.
In the first game, Nikko ended the regular season with a 102-88 win over Saipan Grand Hotel and finished with a 4-4 slate.
SGH dropped to a 3-5 record and joined Nikko, Hafa Adai (1-7), World Resort (0-7) and Marianas Resort (2-4) in the showers.
Big man Ronald Delos Reyes was on target from outside nailing five triples and scoring 39 points.
His 15-point production in the second quarter helped Nikko pull away from a 21-all deadlock in the first quarter and take a 52-37 halftime lead.
Delos Reyes went on to score 18 more points in the second half and got help from Roland Fernandez to foil SGH’s comeback bid. Fernandez drilled 18 of his 22 points in the second half.
William Opone led SGH’s losing cause firing 42 points.
Scores:
First Game
Nikko 102—Delos Reyes 39, Fernandez 22, Pineda 11, Manalo 11, Salazar 9, Isip 6, Aquino 4.
SGH 88—Opone 42, Pablo 21, Dela Torre 15, Licop 4, Ada 4, Razon 2.
Quarterscores: 21-all, 52-37, 73-70, 102-88
Second Game
Fiesta 103—Esdrelon 27, Macoto 20, Jinang 13, David 11, Usi 8, Quinitip 7, Ong 6, Galag 4, Alipala 2, Tobias 2, Roxas 2, Carino 1.
Hafa Adai 87—Iguel 43, Alcober 17, Calayag 11, Olaitiman 8, Gokesan 6, Bating 2.
Quarterscores: 23-19, 49-36, 71-63, 102-87