GILAS Pilipinas Women absorbed its third loss, bowing to Chinese Taipei 1 in overtime, 99-91, in the Jones Cup women's tournament on Friday in Taiwan.
The Filipina cagers were still up, 67-63, entering the fourth but Chinese Taipei overpowered thenm, 17-9, in overtime.
Janine Pontejos scored 17 points on 5 of 10 from threes, and Kelli Hayes had 14 points for the Philippines, winless in three games.
Fan-Shan Huang had 23 points, while Szu-Ching Pang had nine of her 21 points in the extra period as Chinese Taipei 1 recorded its first win.
The Philippines takes on Korea, which has 1-2 card entering the match.
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