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Ol’Aces dominate FMI caging awards
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Posted on Jul 28 2008
Powerhouse Ol’Aces not only won the championship of the Inaugural FMI Inter-Color Basketball League last July 22, but the team also went home with a boatload of hardware during the awards ceremony held immediately after.
Unstoppable offensive force Fred Pelisamen, for instance, bagged the open division’s most valuable player plum after leading the Oleai team to a 2-1 victory in their best-of-three championship against pennant titlist Advance X-Terminators.
Pelisamen, long regarded the islands’ most productive scorer, averaged 50.6 points per game in the championship.
He scored 51 points in Ol’Aces 129-93 rout of the Bug Busters in Game 1, bettered that with a 52-point explosion in a 114-123 losing effort in Game 2, before capping his stellar finals performance with 49 points in Ol’Aces’ title-clinching 124-110 Game 3 victory.
Despite his scoring prowess, Pelisamen curiously did not end up as the scoring king of the Inaugural FMI Inter-Color Basketball League as that distinction belongs to his teammate and fellow swingman Jericho Cruz.
The CNMI Junior National player and former Garapan Roller averaged in excess of 32 points per game for the season to claim the top scoring honors.
Ariel Jinang of CTSI, meanwhile, was the scoring king of the 40-and-over division after the former MVP of the Tan Holdings inter-company league averaged more than 20 points a game.
Sonny Ranola, of 40-and-over champion GEC Pawnshop, was hailed the MVP of the age group, while Ol’Aces’ Sonny Flores and Bank of Saipan’s Jerry “Mutombo” Lopez were named best coach for the open and 40-and-over divisions, respectively.
