BACOLOD City – Supreme ABF/SilverGraces kept its unblemished slate in the 1st United Negros Basketball League (UNBL) Open Tournament by scoring a pair of wins over the weekend at the Bacolod Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gymnasium here.
Supreme ABF/SilverGraces leaned on a strong fourth quarter push from Bill Geolingo and Windel Galez to score a 79-63 victory against UNO-R Red House Taiwan Shabu-Shabu.
Geolingo led the way with 15 points. Clement John Madin and Ritcer Santillan added 12 and 11 markers, respectively.
Jemwel Maligo and Sean Sesaldo had 11 and 10 points, respectively, for UNO-R.
The Gerome Aledron-mentored Supreme ABF/SilverGraces recorded its fifth consecutive win on Sunday afternoon following a 99-75 domination of Colegio de San Agustin-Bacolod/Let’s Go Strived.
It was actually a forgetful weekend for the CSA-B/Let’s Go Strived as, after starting the tournament with 3-0 slate, they suffered back-to-back defeats as they also bowed to RA-AK Transport, 92-85, last Saturday.
CSA-B/Let’s Go Strived was in the driver’s seat at 67-63 late in the third quarter, but an 8-0 scoring blast by RA-AK, highlighted by back-to-back treys by Jhan Nermal, notched them a 71-67 lead.
RA-AK Transport then slowly pulled away in the fourth quarter behind the tandem of Mark Yee and Dave Patrick Yulo as they established the biggest lead at 90-79 with two minutes left.
Yee, who came from his campaign with Bacolod BingoPlus of MPBL, top-scored for RA-AK Transport with 23 points, while Yulo and Nermal chipped in 12 and 10 markers, respectively.
Yee, Nermal and Raymund Ilagan then pushed RA-AK Transport to a 4-1 record to close the week following a 94-69 triumph against LCC-B Team Davies Paint, which dropped to 1-4 slate.
In other results, Acster Marketing increased its record to 3-2 after defeating Tea Tas/Puff Boss (1-4), 102-72; while University of St. La Salle Stingers notched its first win in five games after beating UNO-R Red House Taiwan Shabu (1-4), 70-62./PN
