The Philippine nationwide ladies’s basketball crew on Wednesday began their bid for a 3rd straight championship within the Southeast Asian Games with a 60-point romp of host nation Cambodia, 114-54, within the ladies’s basketball occasion of the meet.
After a good first interval which ended at 22-20, Gilas Pilipinas Women opened the second interval with a 12-0 run and finally constructed a 36-point scoring quarter in opposition to the locals’ 11 to finish the primary half at 58-31. Cambodia’s coach was ejected with lower than seven minutes into the second interval, including to the house crew’s woes.
It was all Gilas then as they by no means regarded again and restricted Cambodia to simply 23 factors within the second half in opposition to the Philippines’ 56.
Ella Fajardo tallied 17 markers whereas Jack Animam flirted with a double-double as she posted 16 factors and 9 boards. France Mae Cabinbin had 12 factors whereas Afril Bernardino and Camille Clarin scored 11 apiece.
Mariah Cooks led Cambodia with 18 factors and 9 rebounds, whereas Meighan Simmons had 11 factors and 7 rebounds within the shedding effort.
The ladies’s crew shall be again in motion on Thursday as they’ll face Singapore previous to the sport of the lads’s crew in opposition to Cambodia.
The scores:
Philippines 114 – Fajardo 17, Animam 16, Cabinbin 12, Bernardino 11, Clarin 11, Pontejos 9, Castillo 8, Surada 8, Berberabe 8, Castro 6, Guytingco 5, Tongco 3.
Cambodia 54 – Cooks 18, Simmons 11, Hanlon 7, Dinkins 6, Davina 6, Sok Oeun 2, Vuoch 2, Nearyrat 2, Theamearodey 0, Sreay Leap 0, Elysi 0.
—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
