University of Santo Tomas continues to beef up its roster forward of the UAAP Season 86 males’s basketball match, locking up two promising rookies in Jun Melecio and Mark Llemit.
Melecio, the youthful brother of Phoenix Super LPG guard and former UAAP star Aljun Melecio, is coming off a juniors stint with La Salle Zobel the place he posted 8.46 factors, 2.85 rebounds, 2.15 assists, and 1.23 steals in 20 minutes within the earlier season.
Llemit, in the meantime, has determined to remain put in España. He donned the UST colours within the UAAP Season 85 juniors basketball match the place the Tiger Cubs reached the Final Four spherical.
The 18-year-old 6-foot winger averaged 16.27 factors, 8.27 rebounds, 2.73 assists, and a pair of.53 steals in 28 minutes to put nineteenth within the NBTC highschool rankings whereas additionally steering UST to the Division 1 semifinals within the Smart-NBTC National Finals.
Both are eligible to play for UAAP Season 86 and can have their full 5 taking part in years.
“Sobrang excited ako kasi dito ako nagsimula. Gusto ko kung saan ako nagsimula, doon din ako sa next level,” mentioned Llemit.
(“I’m so excited because this is where I started. Where I started, that’s where I wanted to go for the next level.”)
Melecio added: “Gagawin ko lahat dito. Kung paano ko minahal yung La Salle, ganoon din yung nafi-feel ko sa UST. Kaya motivated ako na gawin yung best ko to help UST win as much games as possible.”
(“I’ll do it all here. How much I loved La Salle, it’s the same that I feel for UST. That’s why I’m motivated to do my best to help UST win as much games as possible.”)
The two are the newest recruits to hitch the Tigers’ den after SJ Moore, Gabriel Obusan, Rhayyan Amsali, and James Una.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
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