ANTIPOLO – Converge dealt Macau another beating in the Giant Pandas’ farewell game, 162-108, on Friday in the PBA 50th Season Governors’ Cup at the Ynares Center.
The FiberXers won their fourth straight game convincingly to tie TNT at third place in Group A with a 7-4 win-loss record ahead of their clash with the Tropang 5G on Sunday.
The loss put a close to Macau’s embarrassing second conference as a foreign guest team in the PBA, finishing with a 2-10 win-loss record.
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PBA commissioner Willie Marcial previously indicated that the league will no longer bring back the Giant Pandas, who lost their last three games by an average of 56.3 points.
“Very important game on Sunday,” said Converge coach Delta Pineda. “Kaya binigyan namin ng kumpiyansa ‘yung lahat ng guys. All of them were given time inside the court.”
Juan Gomez de Liano registered a triple double for the second straight game, finishing with 13 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists.
But it was Cameron Clark who set the tone for Converge with 32 points, 18 coming in the first quarter. He ended the game on an efficient 14-of-15 shooting from the field.
Two players put together double-doubles for Converge in Justin Arana (16 points, 10 rebounds) and Justine Baltazar (14 points and 12 rebounds).
Converge scored 162 points, a franchise best eclipsing the 152 it scored just last Sunday against Titan Ultra.
Kobey Lam had 49 points at the conclusion of his stint with Macau, where he played in all 12 games.
The scores:
Converge 162 – Clark 32, Arana 16, Tungcab 15, Baltazar 14, Gomez de Liano 13, Clemente 13, Santos 11, Stockton 10, Abueva 9, Garcia 9, Concepcion 9, Muyang 6, Williams 3, Policarpio 2, Lepalam 0.
Macau 108 – Lam 49, Lopez 27, Chao 13, Sun 10, Liu 7, Chen 2, Zhang 0, Lu 0, Zhu 0.
Quarters: 41-19; 79-52; 119-78; 162-108.
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