CENTRO Escolar University and defending champion Olivarez College kept their 1-2 positions in the PG Flex-UCAL Season 8 Basketball Tournament leaderboard after victories at the Paco Arena.
Banking on another well-balanced attack, the CEU Scorpions hacked out a 72-57 win over the Philippine Women’s University Patriots to extend their winning run to four games.
Sea Lions still perfect
The Olivarez Sea Lions, meantime, drew 14 points and seven rebounds from Essissima Menguele and 11 points from Rodel Renon to tame the University of Batangas Brahmans, 81-67, to likewise remain undefeated through three games.
In other games, Philippine Christian University-Dasmarinas picked up its third win in four games by beating Immaculada Concepcion College, 90-85, and Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas scored an 80-75 win over Manila Central University.
For the fourth straight game, Precious Momowei tallied a double-double of 12 points and 12 rebounds, while Christ Jay Singson led all CEU scorers with 13.
Jacob Oriza and Jacob Emannuel Danganan tried to save PWU from a fourth straight loss but their gutsy efforts came too late.
Alvin Reyes once again emerged the best performer for the day with 26 points spiked by three triples.
Kyle Mitra led four LPU-B players in double figures with 15, while Terry Mark finished with 12 points and 13 boards in the event also backed by Akari, Advance Solutions Inc., Smart Sports, Spalding, Quintana Sports, Crane Faucet, Hapee Toothpaste, CafeFrance, Vital, TopFlite Academy, Maruyama, and Gerry’s Grill, Mighty Bond, and Undfitd Sportswear.
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