UV Baby Lancers take Game 1 of Cesafi juniors battle-for-third
Cebu Daily News First Posted 08:22:00 10/06/2010
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UV-UC IN CESAFI FINALS
THE UNIVERSITY of the Visayas (UV) Baby Lancers made the most out of the situation that they put themselves in as they claimed Game 1 of the best-of-three series for third place over the University of Cebu (UC) Baby Webmasters, 76-68, in the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (CESAFI) juniors basketball tournament yesterday at the Cebu Coliseum.
UV and UC have previously met in most of the finals in the high school division.
However, the two teams's juniors programs have faltered in the last two seasons, losing in the semifinal round last year and once again this year, thus relegating them to the battle-for-third place series.
But in spite of that, UV appeared to be the hungrier team for the consolation trophy as they turned to their bench to help get the upper hand with their two stars relegated to the bench because of a disciplinary action. Both Gerald Legarde and Vincent Mendoza did not see action as per the orders of head coach Jun Pepito.
In their place came the steady contributions of Michael Cenita, Pete Flores and Lucky Suan, who tallied 16, 14, and 12 points, respectively.
It was the Baby Lancers' second win this week over the Baby Webmasters with the last one coming last Sunday, a 100-94 overtime thriller.
UV will try to wrap up the series this weekend.
/Correspondent Jonas Panerio