Published February 15, 2023 6:53pm
Updated February 15, 2023 6:53pm
It was simply one other day on the workplace for Andy Gemao because the teen steered the ship anew for Colegio de San Juan de Letran, this time towards Lyceum of the Philippines University, 87-75, within the NCAA Season 98 juniors basketball event on Wednesday.
The 16-year-old court docket normal exploded for a game-high 35 factors alongside 5 rebounds, and 4 steals because the Squires improved to 6-1 to forge a tie on the high with Mapua University.
Lyceum, however, cruised to its second consecutive loss to go 3-4.
Letran led by as many as 27 factors on the finish of the penultimate interval, 72-45, because of Gemao who already had 26 factors at that time. But the Junior Pirates, who completed as runner-up within the earlier version, leaned on Nat Fuentes of their try and stage a comeback.
Fuentes accomplished a three-point play to assist trim their deficit to simply 12, 78-66, with 3:17 to go within the sport. Prior to that, Fuentes additionally led their third quarter scoring, pouring in 10 of his total output within the body.
But Letran’s depth was simply an excessive amount of for the Pirates with Jonathan Manalili and Daniel Padilla offering Gemao the wanted assist as they led once more by 17, 85-68. Time simply ran out for Lyceum as Letran accomplished the victory.
It additionally did not assist Lyceum’s trigger when its high scorer and workforce captain Matthew Rubico went down with an harm with 27.9 left within the third quarter.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
