The Batangas City Embassy Chill Athletics and the Bacoor Strikers clobbered their respective foes and caught up with the OKBet-Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League Fifth Season leaders late Monday at the Batangas City Coliseum. Batangas clamped down on the Iloilo United Royals in the fourth quarter to tally a runaway 78-55 victory in the nightcap while
BATANGAS City Embassy Chill is back in action in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) with head coach Cholo Villanueva leaving no room for complacency despite the team reaching the southern division finals last year. The new season, Villanueva stressed, is a totally different ballgame. “We start from the ground up.…
MANILA - Philip Manalang won it for Basilan Steel as the team edged Nueva Ecija in overtime, 83-80, in the final of the Chooks-to-Go MPBL Invitational on Thursday night at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. Manalang found himself wide open off his screen for Jaymar Gimpayan, and Michael Juico gave his inbound pass to Manalang for the go-ahead trey right at the final buzzer. Manalang was named the Finals Most Valuable Player despite scoring his only points in the game with the game-winner. The win capped a huge turnaround for the Steel franchise, which started 2021 on a sad note after they were barred from playing Game 3 of the long-postponed Southern Division Finals against Davao Occidental due to coronavirus disease 2019 cases inside the Subic bubble. Basilan bounced back with a bang later in the year, first by becoming the inaugural Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup championship before ruling the inaugural FilBasket season also inside a bubble in Olongapo as AICC Manila. But Basilan coac
PASIG-STA. LUCIA vented its ire on Imus-Buracai de Laiya, 100-80, to salvage the bronze medal in the Chooks-to-Go Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League Invitational powered by TM bon Thursday at the Mall of Asia Arena. The Realtors were coming off a tough 72-77 loss to Basilan-Jumbo Plastic Medical Depot on Wednesday…
MANILA - The pairings for the quarterfinals of the Chooks-to-Go Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Invitational have been formalized following the conclusion of the elimination round on Monday night at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay. Pasig, Nueva Ecija, and Basilan swept their respective groups, while Imus scored a huge win on the final day of the group stages and got some help from an also-ran squad to also seal one of the top seeds in the knockout stages. Bandera opened the day with a 90-79 rout of the Rizal Crusaders in the lone morning action. Jhaymo Eguilos led Imus, which gradually pulled away from Rizal in the middle two quarters, with 18 points, eight rebounds, and two assists off the bench. Adi Santos added 17 markers, 10 boards, one dime, and one block. In the next game, Bulacan played a spoiler role and eliminated Manila with a 98-89 shocker. James Martinez erupted for 31 points on 7-of-11 shooting alongside six rebounds and eight assists off the bench to lead the