By Roselyn B. Monroyo
Variety News Staff

HAFA Adai may have been eliminated in the 2006-2007 Inter-Hotel Basketball League/HANMI Cup finishing the regular season with a 1-7 record, but it can still claim some pride in Pete Iguel, who was the league’s scoring champion.
In eight games, Iguel, nicknamed the “Pistol” averaged 33.75 points per game. He scored a total of 270 points, shot 50.09 percent from the free-throw line on 39-of-66 shooting.
Iguel beat Nikko’s Ronald Delos Reyes, who nailed 257 points and averaged 32.12 points per game.
Completing the top five were Hyatt’s Bernard Aquino (19.62 points) and Edmark Mendoza (19.5) and Marianas Resort’s Jayson Gatdula (19.5).
Making it to the top 10 were Fiesta’s Elmer Esdrelon (18.62 pts. per game), Saipan Grand’s William Opone (18.62), Aqua’s Darwin Barbo (17.75), Hyatt’s Mike Umali (17.62) and Aqua’s Dalewin Cortez (17.37).
After placing second to Iguel in scoring, Delos Reyes redeemed himself in the rebounds department averaging 14.5 boards per game. He collared a total of 116 rebounds in eight games.
Finishing second in the rebound department was Opone with an average of 12 caroms per game, followed by Iguel (11 rebounds per game), Mendoza (11.87), PIC’s Richard Pambid (9.37), Cortez (8.87), Aqua’s Cesar Ambrocio (8.75) and Dennis Sebastian (8.12), SGH’s Ferdie Dela Torre (7) and Nikko’s Ronald Fernandez (6.87).
Aquino entered the top 10 of the individual statistical leaders’ race for the second time topping the assists department.
The Hyatt playmaker averaged 7.12 assists per game. He had 51 feeds in the eight games of the regular season.
Nikko’s player-coach Elmer Pineda was in second with 33 assists and an average of five assists per match.
Completing the top 10 were Fiesta’s Adonis Macoto (4.62 assists per game), Hafa Adai’s Michael Olaitiman (4.62), Esdrelon (4), PIC’A James Abuy (3.37), SGH’s Shan Seman (3.12), Mendoza (3), PIC’s Amor Zapata (3) and Opone (2.87).
Esdrelon ruled the steals department with 45 steals in eight games and an average of 4.3 steals per game. Joining him in the top 10 were Macoto, Seman, Aquino, Abuy, Gatdula, Mendoza, Pineda, Ziddy Johanes and Opone.
Mendoza was the league’s best shotblockers swatting 19 shots in eight games for an average of 2.37 per match.
In second place was World Resort’s Nabil Murday (13 shotblocks), followed by Sebastian (11), Cortez (10), Iguel (8), Hyatt’s Horishi Yamamoto (7), Pambid (6), JR Ngreskebei (6), World Resort’s Gerry Gayo (6) and Fernandez (5).
Showing the best touch from from 15-foot line was PIC’s Alfred Fernandez, who shot 70 percent from the charity line on 28-of-40 shooting.
Delos Reyes came in second, followed by Dela Torre, Opone, Roland Fernandez, Awuino, Dalangin, Seman, Umali and SGH’s Dindo Pablo.
Abuy was the deadliest from the 3-point area with an average of 2.5 triples per game. Making it to the top 10 were Delos Reyes, Esdrelon, Pablo, Fiesta’s Ariel Jinang, Marianas’s Resort’s Roy Ocanada, Dalangin, Murday, Hafa Adai’s Fernand Calayag and Hyatt’s Roman Rodriguez.