Krua Thai-Ice Monster stayed focused under pressure, then, relied on Onebol Talatala in crunch time to pull off an exciting 119-118 triple overtime victory over New ST Marketing Friday night in the 6th Tan Kek Pin Cup at the Po Hang Gym of Bacolod Tay Tung High School.

Talatala scored 7 points in the third extra session, including the go-ahead basket with 5.7 ticks left that gave the Monsters enough cushion to hack out the win. Poor free throw shooting hastened New ST's defeat as it missed seven charities in the third overtime.

Bracket A action saw Panasonic-Po's Marketing repulsing YBAC, 76-73 in the first game.

Krua Thai led, 63-57, heading into the final period but Glenn Peewee Demonteverde and Vincent Gamboa fired up New ST, scoring 16 and 7 points, to give their team an 81-69 advantage with 3:30 remaining.

Mars Echarri led the Krua Thai comeback hitting two triples, while teammate Godoy Cepriano hit two free throws with five seconds to go to force the first overtime, 85-all.

New ST opened with an 8-2 run in the first overtime but Echarri,

Gerome Aledron and Cepriano responded with a triple each to swing back the lead to Krua Thai.

Mark Binguan, however, rescued New ST with a desperation triple from 35 feet that tied the game at 97 as time expired.

Cepriano led Krua Thai with 22 points, even as Mars Echarri added 17. Talatala finished with 15, Aledron came up with 14 and Nene Sibaya and Joshua Chua contributed 9 apiece.

Demonteverde erupted for 31, while Gamboa registered 24. Binguan had 22 points and Dominic Ciocon added 8. *CPT

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