Barangay Ginebra San Miguel cruised to its fourth straight victory after taking down the Converge FiberXers, 120-101, on Sunday within the 2023 PBA Governors’ Cup on the Philsports Arena in Pasig.
It was virtually a wire-to-wire win for the convention’s defending champs as Converge led solely within the early elements of the primary quarter and Ginebra by no means appeared again since.
The two groups’ imports, nonetheless, had a transparent distinction of their performances.
Ginebra’s Justin Brownlee posted his normal double-double with 28 factors and 10 boards, however the normally explosive Jamaal Franklin was restricted to only 4 factors in 35 minutes of play.
Jamie Malonzo led the best way for Ginebra with 29 factors and eight rebounds whereas Christian Standhardinger, like Brownlee, additionally had a double-double with 28 factors and 12 boards. Ginebra improved to 7-2 within the standings forward of their match towards Terrafirma on Wednesday.
Maverick Ahanmisi led the locals with 24 factors within the loss which put them to 6-5.
Earlier, the Meralco Bolts, which performed with out the suspended Allein Maliksi, defeated the Phoenix Super LPG Fuelmasters, 92-86.
The Bolts capped their elimination marketing campaign with a 7-4 card, sufficient to remain within the twice-to-beat hunt as league leaders TNT, San Miguel, and Ginebra nonetheless have two extra video games to play, whereas NLEX is at 7-3. The win additionally denied Phoenix (4-7) a minimum of an outright quarterfinals berth.
The scores:
First recreation:
Meralco 92 – McDaniels 19, Black 18, Banchero 13, Hodge 12, Quinto 9, Newsome 8, Almazan 7, Caram 3, Pasaol 3, Jose 0.
Phoenix 86 – Maxwell 29, Serrano 20, Perkins 13, Tio 7, Jazul 6, Camacho 3, Muyang 2, Manganti 2, Mocon2, Garcia 2, Lalata 0, Alejandro 0.
Quarters: 23-22, 47-49, 73-68, 92-86.
Second recreation:
Ginebra 120 – Malonzo 29, Brownlee 28, Standhardinger 28, Gray 16, Thompson 5, Pinto 4, R.Aguilar 4, Pringle 3, Onwubere 3, Pessumal 0, Dillinger 0.
Converge 101 – Ahanmisi 24, Teng 12, Murrell 11, Arana 11, Stockton 10, Tratter 9, Racal 7, Balanza 7, Franklin 4, Ebona 3, Tolomia 3.
Quarters: 29-24, 64-55, 93-78, 120-101.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
