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La Salle’s back-to-back MVP Kevin Quiambao and UP star Francis Lopez put up extremely contrasting endgame performances because the Archers survive by a single level to push the Maroons to a winner-take-all UAAP finals Recreation 3
MANILA, Philippines – Not but, say the defending UAAP males’s basketball champions.
The La Salle Inexperienced Archers prevented a Season 87 finals sweep by the hands of the UP Preventing Maroons, incomes a extremely cardiac 76-75 Recreation 2 win to power a do-or-die conflict in entrance of a packed crowd of 17,112 on the Mall of Asia Area on Wednesday, December 11.
The win pushes the vaunted Taft program on the cusp of its eleventh males’s basketball title and its first profitable title protection within the final 4 makes an attempt, whereas additionally kicking UP down its fifth straight finals Recreation 2 loss courting again to its Season 81 breakthrough in 2018.
Enduring JD Cagulangan’s torrid triple spree in UP’s breakaway third quarter, La Salle slowly pulled again within the fourth, getting inside 4 after a booming triple from two-time MVP Kevin Quiambao, 67-63 with 6:24 to play.
Unfazed with UP’s cost, Quiambao stored going within the clutch, drilling an enormous three after large three to take a 74-73 lead with 1:13 left, earlier than Quentin Millora-Brown and Mike Phillips traded jabs for a 76-75 La Salle benefit, all the way in which from a 73-66 deficit with 4:35 remaining.
That, nonetheless, can be the ultimate rating as Francis Lopez put up an absolute stinker of an endgame, blowing 4 straight free throws and inflicting a turnover with 15 seconds left off a rebounded Phillips missed free throw.
Quiambao completed the emotional win with 22 factors — half coming within the fourth quarter — on high of 9 rebounds and a pair of assists, backstopped by an 18-point, 12-board double-double from Phillips.
Cagulangan, Lopez, and Gerry Abadiano all scored 16 within the heartbreaking defeat.
La Salle and UP meet for one final conflict on Sunday, December 15, on the Araneta Coliseum.
The Scores
LA SALLE 76 – Quiambao 22, M. Phillips 18, Macalalag 9, Gollena 9, Gonzales 8, Austria 5, David 3, Agunanne 2, Ramiro 0, Rubico 0, Marasigan 0.
UP 75 – Cagulangan 16, Lopez 16, Abadiano 16, Millora-Brown 11, Alarcon 5, Torres 5, Ududo 2, Torculas 2, Stevens 2, Bayla 0, Fortea 0, Felicilda 0.
Quarters: 28-22, 39-36, 54-62, 76-75.
– Rappler.com
