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Rangamar, Pettis lead all tourney team
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Posted on May 28 2012
By Mark Rabago
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
CNMI 1’s Liamwar Rangamar and Tinian’s Darius Pettis led the All Tournament team of the 2012 U17 Micronesian Basketball Tournament that concluded Saturday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.
Rangamar headed the girls all tourney team, which also included her teammates Jamie Mendoza and Rachel Abrams and Guam’s Destiny Castro and Kali Benavente.
The veteran of the CNMI women’s national basketball team that won the gold medal in the 2006 Micronesian Games received 11 votes from coaches of participating teams.
Benavente was the second-highest vote-getter with 7, followed by Castro (6), Abrams (6), and Mendoza (5).
For the record, Rangamar scored 56 points in four games during the weeklong competition, capped by her 22-point explosion in CNMI 1’s 56-70 loss in the finals against Guam. She wound up averaging 14 points per game.
Benevente, meanwhile, normed 18 points per game after totaling 90 markers in the tourney. Castro had 51 points in three games to finish with a 17 points per game average, while Mendoza and Abrams averages 11.6 and 8 points per game, respectively.
In the boys side, Pettis led the boys tourney team that also included Guam’s Sammy Setik, Palau’s Marvic Ngchar, CNMI 1’s Jack Aranda, and CNMI 2’s Karlo De Leon.
The Tinian hotshot had the most votes from the coaches with 12, followed by Ngchar (10), Setik (8), Aranda (7), and De Leon (6).
Pettis led all scorers with 19 points per game after pouring in a total of 152 points in the tourney. Ngchar, who almost single-handedly beat CNMI 1 in the semis, finished with 136 points to norm 17 a game.
Setik powered Guam to an undefeated record en route to the championship after scoring 106 points and finished with a 13.25 points per game average. Aranda scored points aplenty despite playing point for CNMI 1. He ended up with 125 points for a 15.6 average.
De Leon, meanwhile, showed he is one of the Commonwealth’s up-and-coming cagers after norming 11.3 points for CNMI 2. Deleon and girls CNMI 1’s Mendoza are the nephew and niece of former CNMI men’s national player Edsel Mendoza.
