St. Benilde School and Bacolod Professionals prevailed over their opponents to bag the championship title in their respective category in the BUS Group basketball tournament.

The boys from St. Benilde, survived a scare from the much-improved University of St. La Salle, 90-83, in the finals of the 14-under at the Negros Occidental Multi-Purpose Activity Center. The BAPRO dribblers, on the other hand, tamed Basketball Unified Sports Group Team `A', 70-64, in the 38-Above division.

The championship matchup between BAPRO and Basketball Unified was played at the Lopue's South Square gym.

With coach Christian Escote directing the game of St. Benilde, the team jumped to a 50-36 lead in the first half.

The Junior Stingers of coach Troy Sarabia, however, closed the gap at the start of the last canto.

St. Benilde's lapses in both ends of the court in the second half almost cost them the victory, however, tournament most valuable player Christian Avanceña, Boy Macote, and Christian Pepino stirred their team to safety with outstanding deliveries.

Macote scored 24 and Avanceña put in 21 to keep St. Benilde on the lead as the game clock expired.

Except for minor disagreements among parents in the audience, the 14-under division of the BUS Group tournament proved to be exciting.

In the 3-Above category, Boy Torres and Shad Guanzon scored 12 each and Emil Guanzon 10 to pace BAPRO against Basketball Unified.

Rommel Teruel and Fritz Varca contributed 8 apiece while Nap Ledesma chipped in 4 points to secure the victory for BAPRO.*NB

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