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Alfie’s, Nena Rose
post win in TKP

Alfie’s construction notched its first win by holding off Buddy Johann Kendrick Tan, 89-87, while Nena’s Rose Shopping defeated NRich Multipurpose Cooperative, 112-86, in Class B of the 12th Tan Kek Pin Memorial Basketball Cup in Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gym.

Alfie’s was up at 78-70 in the fourth quarter when JKT Franklin Madrid and Mark Binguan cut the lead to two points, but Bobby Yap hit a back-to-back trey for Alfie to take back the lead at 84-76.

Countering with a back-to-back hits of his own, Binguan drew Buddy closer at 89-84 then Vincent Javelosa’s three-point play cut the lead to a single basket.

Alfie’s escaped with the victory as Buddy missed on their three-point shot and a follow up as time expired.

Taking an early lead in the first quarter, Alfie’s capitalized on a combined 17-point output from Chibon Uy and Peter Galon for a 24-22 lead, even as Binguan had 10 points and Jerky Ong delivered 9 for Buddy.

In the second quarter, Christopher Mahinay drilled three triples and Bobby Yap added 7 points to keep the lead for Alfie’s, 46-44 at the break.

Buddy tried to grab the lead in the third quarter but failed to stop the offensive rebounding and putbacks of Peter Galon as Alfie’s extended the lead to 74-68 going to the payoff quarter.

Galon led Alfie’s with 20 points, Uy added 1, Mahinay scored 15, Yap shot 13, and David Lim had 9 points.

Buddy, dropping to 2-1 in the team standings, was led by Binguan with 21 points, Eufre added 18, Jerky Ong shot 13, and Madrid made 11 points.

Meanwhile, Nena’s Rose Shopping outscored NRich in the first three quarters, 29-15, 59-38, 86-60 to even their record at 2-2 while keeping NRIch winless after three games.

Nena’s Rose Shopping’s balanced offensive was led by RJ Iligan with five treys for 15 points, Kenderson Hao also had 15, Vincent Tan contributed 14, Robert Alegario, Mark Velez and Victor Go had 13 points each, Matthew Yap shot 8 , Joseph Tiu and Jan Guevarra scored 7 points each.

Nico Lopingco finished with a game-high 32 pints in a losing effort, Adonis Rosales added 15, Romar Desusa and Richard Tan delivered 9 points each.

This weekend, University of St. La Salle-Nhojs the only unbeaten team in Class A, will stake its 2-0 record against Rogers/Province of Negros Occidental today and JSY Transport tomorrow.*with a report from Stephen Tan

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