MERALCO suffered its second straight loss in the Doha International Basketball Championship - a 70-62 defeat at the hands of Al Zamalek of Egypt on Wednesday.
The Bolts fell to 0-2 (win-loss) in Group B following their 90-82 loss to Al Arabi from Kuwait on Tuesday.
Meralco will conclude the preliminaries on Thursday against Al Ahly of Libya.
Feron Hunt, the Bolts’ import for the upcoming Commissioner’s Cup, saw action for the team, which also had Serbian player Uros Lokovic as their reinforcement for the tournament.
Chris Newsome also didn’t play owing to his participation with Gilas Pilipinas in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
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