Former St. La Salle varsity player Ryan Concha nailed two free throws with a second lift to lift Davies Paint-Probac to a thrilling 91-90 win over Val Motors Saturday night in the Tan Kek Pin Cup Memorial Basketball Tournament.

Concha teamed up with veteran guard Demonteverde in bailing out Probac after Val Motors came back from an 81-65 deficit to take an 89-90 lead on Hernie Tamayo's short stab with 7.3 seconds left.

But Concha was fouled by Godoy Cepriano on the next play and the flashy guard calmly sank his charities after going 2-of-4 in his previous trips to the stripe.

The victory shoved Probac to the top of Bracket A with a 2-0 record, while Val Motors dropped to 1-1, the same record of Lopue's Travel Center, which crushed Summit Mineral Water, 102-93, in the second game.

Concha finished with 15 points, while Demonteverde, who also nailed two crucial free throws with 18 seconds left, added 9. Carlo Diaz scored 14 points all in the third quarter but was conspicuously absent in the final period when the game was on the line.

Ariston Sillana spearheaded a 9-2 run to open the fourth quarter but veteran Santiago Rapiz sparked a 13-0 blast to make it 81-78 with 4:10 left.

An Adrian Melocoton triple tied the game at 85 with more than a minute left, before Concha split his free throws. Tamayo was becoming a handful for his Davies defenders and he made them pay by nailing two charities for an 87-86 lead with 28 seconds left, before Demonteverde and Concha stepped up to keep Probac unbeaten in five games since the first phase of the elimination.

Cepriano had 18 points, while Rapiz and Tamayo posted 15 and 13, respectively.

Lopue's banked on explosive games from slotman Andy Angudong and Mark Binguan, who came through with 7 triples en route to a 25-point output. Angodung bullied his way to 26 points, 16 of which coming in the second period when Lopue's took the lead for good, after trailing 24-18 in the first quarter.

Binguan sustained the momentum, going 4-of-5 from rainbow territory. By then, Summit started to struggle with only playing-coach Jimmy Yap providing some offense when he scored three successive triples that proved to be the only points scored by Summit in the first five minutes as Lopue's broke the game wide open.

Theodore Espejo added 13 points, while Vanzant Brizuela scored 10. Aaron Guevarra and Antonio Rogacion combined for 17 points.

Jessimar Gabihan paced Summit with 18 points, while Arvin Gustilo, who spearheaded the opening-quarter charge, added 15. Salvador Bonza scored 14 and Jimmy Yao and Bobby Yap made 9 points each for Summit, which dropped to 0-2 in the second phase of the eliminations. *CPT

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