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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
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CUP OPENER
BBC pulls off hard win over Bad Boyz
BY CEDELF TUPAS
Defending champion BBC needed another strong endgame performance from reigning MVP Rodney Buņol to hack out a thrilling 76-74 win over Bad Boyz last night at the start of the 7th Tan Kek Pin Cup Memorial Basketball Tournament in Bacolod City.
Buņol led the charge with 17 markers but his last basket with 9.6 seconds left proved to be the saving grace for BBC at the Po Hang Gym of Bacolod Tay Tung High School. Renren Lacson missed a triple as time expired, allowing BBC to escape with the narrow win. Only 10 of its 18 players suited up for Bad Boyz but they surprisingly made a tight contest out of it all throughout with the third quarter ending at 55-all.
But the West Negros College-based quintet showed it had
so much gas left in its tank, taking a 74-72 lead with 1:22 left on
Rico Cabatu's jumper, before David Lacson tied it up at 74 at the one
minute mark. 
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'Exposure Eric Altamirano, a former Philippine Basketball Association mentor, yesterday said that the goal of the 2007 Nike Elite Basketball Camp is to give more exposure to provincial-based players to give them a chance to play in professional leagues in the future. Altamirano, head of the International Basketball Academy screening
committee, said that they decided to hold tryouts outside of Metro
Manila because they wanted to give the aspiring cagers an opportunity
to play their game in a higher level. The tryouts for last year's
Elite Camp was only held for Manila-based schools, but this year
the organizers decided to have the tryouts in different areas including
Bacolod City that staged the event at the St. John's Institute Activity
Center yesterday. |
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3 NOFA tourneys After hosting the Asean Football Championship qualifiers last year, the Negros Occidental Football Association goes back to the grassroots level when it stages three tournaments starting on Feb. 10 in Bacolod City. NOFA deputy general-secretary Warren Concepcion yesterday said that the Under-15 and Under-17 Boys' Provincial Championships will kick off on Feb. 10 as well as the 38-Above home-and-away tournament, but the venues have yet to be finalized. The venues will be finalized next week, but the ones being eyed
are the Panaad Park and Stadium, Paglaum Sports Complex, University
of St. La Salle and University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, Concepcion
said. |
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