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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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MANILA – Gilas Pilipinas defeated the two Chinese-Taipei teams in the 2017 William Jones Cup.
The Philippine men’s basketball team flirted with disaster over the lowly Chinese-Taipei White before escaping 93-82 on clutch hits by Matthew Wright and Jio Jalalon on Monday.
On Sunday evening, Ilonggo Kiefer Ravena came up with clutch baskets in the end to help Gilas score an 88-72 win over Chinese-Taipei Blue, the national basketball team of Taiwan.
Ravena went on to finish with 15 points and eight rebounds.
Filipino-German Christian Standhardinger had double-double 17 points and 16 rebounds for Gilas, which lost to Canada 77-90 last Saturday.
On Monday at the Taipei Peace International Basketball Hall, Gilas and Chinese-Taipei White were in a tight battle — no one was leading by double figures — until Wright and Jalalon led a huge endgame run to build the Philippines’ largest lead at 11 points.
Wright led the way with 21 points, on five 3-point conversions, while Roger Pogoy and Mike Myers contributed 15 and 14 points, respectively, for Gilas, which improved to a 2-1 win-loss slate.
Ying Chun Chen finished with 17 points, while import Kyle Barone added double-double 16 points and 12 rebounds for Chinese-Taipei White, which remained winless in three games.
The Philippines is the defending champion in the annual tournament after the Mighty Sports-Pilipinas — then led mostly by American imports — dominated the field with a sweep last year./PN
SCORES
PHILIPPINES 93 – Wright 21, Pogoy 15, Myers 14, Jalalon 13, Ravena 10, Ferrer 8, Standhardinger 6, Cruz 6, Daquioag 0, Paras 0, Pessumal 0, Vosotros 0
CHINESE-TAIPEI WHITE 82 – Ying 17, Barone 16, Tsung 13, Guan 9, Kai 8, Li 5, You 5, Hung 4, Ren 3, Shih 2, Chia 0
QUARTERS – 18-20, 44-44, 67-61, 93-82
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