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\u00a0 Team Pogi kept its grip to the top spot, while Brabu Guali Rai moved up in the team standings after recording contrasting wins in the 2012 DLX\/DL JOS Inter-Color Basketball League last Monday night at the Gualo Rai Basketball Court.<\/p>\n\u00a0 Team Pogi kept its grip to the top spot, while Brabu Guali Rai moved up in the team standings after recording contrasting wins in the 2012 DLX\/DL JOS Inter-Color Basketball League last Monday night at the Gualo Rai Basketball Court.<\/p>\n
Team Pogi improved to a 5-1 record, two games ahead of its closest pursuer in Bracket A, following a 105-79 spanking of Marianas Water, while Brabu Gualo Rai climbed up to fifth place in Bracket A with its 2-3 card after outclassing Banahaw Restaurant, 78-72.<\/p>\n
Brabu Gualo Rai boosted its bid for one of the two remaining playoff tickets in Bracket A after launching a rally in the fourth and overhauling Banahaw’s 11-point lead in the third canto.<\/p>\n
The third period started with Banahaw ahead, 61-50, after holding Brabu to 8 points in that frame. Joel Javier scored 8 of his 17 points at the beginning of the second half to lift Banahaw to a twin-digit lead.<\/p>\n
However, Javier and company failed to keep its offense going in the fourth period where Brabu outgunned Banahaw, 28-11, to steal the victory. J.P. Jose and Danny Dayrit teamed up in Brabu’s fourth-quarter juggernaut with the latter scoring all his 8 points in the final canto, including six straight markers in the closing minutes. Jose also had 8 in the fourth, canning three free throws in the homestretch to ensure the win. He finished with a game-high 27 markers. Victor Mallari also contributed in Brabu’s fourth quarter rally, adding 5 points and totaling 15.<\/p>\n
Javier was held to 4 points and the rest of his teammates only combined for three field goals in the entire fourth canto, dropping the team to a 3-3 record, just one win ahead of Brabu. Banahaw remained at fourth place and must win its last game to make it to the eight-team playoff round. Only the Top 4 teams in each bracket will make the cut.<\/p>\n
In Bracket A, Team Pogi is likely to finish No. 1 in its group after getting its fifth win in six games.<\/p>\n
Team Pogi dropped 10 triples against only one from Marianas Water (2-3) to walk away with the easy victory. Jeff Bahillo led Team Pogi’s hot shooting from beyond the arc, hitting four treys and firing 30 points. He made 9 straight markers at one point in the third period and added one more in the last one minute of that canto to power Team Pogi to a big 70-54 advantage.<\/p>\n
Before the third-quarter breakaway, Team Pogi only led by a deuce at the break, 38-36, as Marianas Water had a 14-6 windup in the last two minutes of the first half. Then Team Pogi had a 10-2 run in the first five minutes of the third to bring the lead back to double digits, 48-38, and the advantage continued to balloon, as Bahillo had his scoring spree midway in that quarter.<\/p>\n
Bahillo’s hot hands rubbed off to his teammates, as Tim Sula, Renan Lansang, Jerwin Raquero, and Jason Bahillo also drained triples in the fourth canto en route to Team Pogi’s 26-point win.<\/p>\n
First Game<\/strong><\/p>\n Brabu Gualo Rai 78 – Jose 27, Mallari 15, Mamaril 10, Dayrit 8, Manalo 8, Samson 6, Galzote 4.<\/p>\n Banahaw Restaurant 72<\/strong> – Javier 17, Towon 13, Saplan 12, Tabamo 11, Pacson 8, Sevilla 7.<\/p>\n Scoring by quarters:<\/strong> 22-22, 42-37, 50-61, 78-72.<\/p>\n Second Game<\/strong><\/p>\n Team Pogi 105 – Je. Bahillo 30, Ja. Bahillo 17, Chan 17, Sula 12, Lansang 11, Raquero 5, Salazar 5, Alegre 2.<\/p>\n Marianas Water 79<\/strong> – Galulu 27, Capalas 13, Olivos 12, Pacheco 7, Casabuena 3, Morales,2, Lazona 2, Vergara 2.<\/p>\n Scoring by quarters: <\/strong>21-14, 38-36, 70-54, 105-79.<\/p>\n By Roselyn Monroyo \u00a0 Team Pogi kept its grip to the top spot, while Brabu Guali Rai moved…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-22717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-team-pogi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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