Overcoming a conference high 56-point output from Julius Teruel, Basecom scored a convincing victory over the  Huminova Tigers, 116-102, while AACI Farms made it six-in-a-row by routing Chemisolutions Inc., 81-66, in the Fil-Sino All Asian Countertrade Inc. 3rd Conference Inter-Color Tournament at Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gym.

Teruel started his scoring binge by tallying all of the Tigers’ 16 points in the first quarter, but Basecom managed to get the upperhand with a 26-16 lead behind the trio of Eduardo Ng, Celhelm Uy and Dennis Gamboa who combined for 24 points.

Mark Binguan hit four triples as Cris Vargas delivered seven points to spearhead a Basecom breakaway and extend the lead to 64-39 at halftime.

The Tigers threatened to come back in the third quarter fueled by Teruel and Joseph Oxinio with 15 and 14 points, respectively, and cut the lead to 87-76 even as Ng hit three treys and Joaquin Gochangco Jr. added two triples of his own for Basecom.

In the final quarter, Teruel scattered 15 points and Oxinio chipped in eight to bring the lead down further but the Tigers ran out of gas  as Basecom held on to the lead behind a balanced offense led by Dennis Gamboa, Robbie Jalandoon and Romar Deusa.

Ng and Binguan with 10 triples between them finished the game with 27 and 17 points, respectively, to pace Basecom while Teruel topscored for Huminova Tigers.

In the other game, Chemisolutions took a 17-16 lead behind Kenderson Hao and Archie Co in the opening minutes but AACI Farms stamped their class in the second quarter as Jason Ong scored 14 points for a 41-27 lead.

Chemisolutions drew 10 points from Matthew Yap in the second quarter to get close at 59-54.

In the payoff quarter, AACI Farms’ Ritche Militante  and Ralph Ong dominated the shaded area and scored a total of 13 points while teammate Marc Lo added 7 points and Kenderson Hao had 9 of the 17 points for Chemisolutions.

Chemisolutions will get another chance for the quarterfinals slot as it plays AACI Transport as of presstime. The winner will advance to a knockout quarterfinals which starts on Wednesday.

AACI Farms will play 2nd placer AACI Trading on Monday at the close of the elimination with the winner getting the No. 1 slot and a twice-to- beat advantage in the semifinals.*NAB

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