The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) has submitted its 28-man nationwide pool to the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) forward of their upcoming marketing campaign within the thirty second Southeast Asian Games basketball tournaments in Cambodia this May.
Leading the Gilas Pilipinas males’s basketball pool are PBA MVPs June Mar Fajardo and Scottie Thompson in addition to naturalized participant Justin Brownlee.
Also on the SBP’s checklist are PBA gamers Japeth Aguilar, Kevin Alas, Raymond Almazan, Aaron Black, Poy Erram, Jeremiah Gray, Marcio Lassiter, Jamie Malonzo, Chris Newsome, Calvin Oftana, CJ Perez, RR Pogoy, Stanley Pringle, Chris Ross, Brandon Rosser, Christian Standhardinger, Arvin Tolentino, and Mikey Williams.
Also on the checklist are Mason Amos, AJ Edu, Jerom Lastimosa, brothers Ben and Mike Phillips, Kevin Quiambao, and Schonny Winston.
In the earlier version of the SEA Games, the nation didn’t safe the gold medal within the males’s basketball match for the primary time since 1989. Only two members of that staff – Fajardo and Pogoy – are within the pool for this version.
“That moment is upon us, and we’re not leaving any stone unturned in our overall bid to regain basketball glory in our region,” SBP president Al Panlilio mentioned.
“What we’ve gone through after that fateful day in Hanoi, both the wins and the losses in the various tournaments that followed, are, in effect, geared also toward bringing the SEA Games gold medal back to our shores.”
The Gilas Women nationwide staff, in the meantime, has additionally submitted its pool, with the squad looking for a 3rd consecutive gold medal within the SEA Games.
The girls’s basketball pool consists of Jack Animam, Stefanie Berberabe, Afril Bernardino, Kate Bobadilla, Chak Cabinbin, Mikka Cacho, Khate Castillo, Clare Castro, Kristine Cayabyab, Camille Clarin, Monique Del Carmen, Kacey Dela Rosa, Ella Fajardo, Aurea Gingras, Katrina Guytingco, Mai Loni Henson, Jhazmin Joson, Kennan Ka, Louna Ozar, Ann Pingol, Janine Pontejos, Sofia Roman, Angel Surada, Andrea Tongco, and Kristan Yumul.
Pools for the 3×3 males’s and girls’s tournaments have additionally been revealed.
Naturalized participant Ange Kouame leads the lads’s pool alongside veteran Almond Vosotros. Also within the checklist are Brandon Bates, Alfred Batino, Samboy De Leon, Joseph Eriobu, Lervin Flores, Jeffrey Manday, Jorey Napoles, and Joseph Sedurifa
The girls’s pool, which can look to return to the rostrum after lacking out within the earlier version, will probably be composed of members of the 5-on-5 pool in Animam, Bernardino, Castillo, Castro, Cayabyab, Dela Rosa, Henson, and Pontejos.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
