SEPT. 11 (Tuesday)
5:00 PM –6:45 PM GAME 1 – #1 SHS – ADC 77 VS. #4 CEC 60 - H.S.
6:45 PM - 8:30 PM GAME 1 – #1 UV 79 VS. #4 UC 45 - COLLEGE
SEPT. 13 (Thursday)
5:00 PM –6:45 PM GAME 2 – #2 UV VS. #3 CIT-U - H.S.
6:45 PM - 8:30 PM GAME 2 – #2 USJ-R VS. #3 SWU - COLLEGE
UV blasts UC
By Rommel C. Manlosa
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
FROM the looks of it, nine-time champions the University of the Visayas Green Lancers are bound to return to the finals, after reducing the two-time defending champions University of Cebu Webmasters to a mediocre squad following a clinical 79-45 bashing at the start of the semifinal round of the 2012 Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) Basketball Tournament held at the Cebu Coliseum last night.
In the high school game, two-time runner-up Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu Magis Eagles were also showing their serious titular bid after scoring a 77-60 win over the 2010 champions Cebu Eastern College Dragons.
The Eagles held CEC to just two points in the first quarter then went to Arc Gabrielle Araw-Araw who scored 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to hold the red- hot charge of the Dragons.
At one point, the Webmasters were giving the Lancers a hard time, holding the opponents’ charges for few minutes before all hell broke loose.
Tied at 2-all early, Kim Gomez sank his field goal to give UC a 5-2 start. But UC could only hang on to the lead for three minutes before UV broke the game wide open.
Steve Cedrick Akomo ignited the Lancers’ 16-3 run with a one-handed slam to give UV a 21-10 lead at the end of the first quarter.
UC managed to cut down UV’s lead to a single digit for the next three minutes but the Lancers again outscored the Webmasters, 16-10, to close the first half carrying a 39-24 lead.
Then UC’s nightmare came when UV’s full court trap started to break their offense, resulting to a crippling 26-4 run that towed the Lancers to a 65-28 lead for good.
UC scored only seven points while UV started fielding its second and third stringers in the last three minutes of the penultimate period.
But even with UV playing with its second and third stringers the rest of the way, UC just could not come up with the right answers.
Wily point guard John Abad scored 14 points for UV, while Wowie Escocio and Phil Mercader each had 12 points. No UC player scored in double digits with Kevin Quilantang topscoring with nine points.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on September 12, 2012.



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