December 21

Mall of Asia Arena
Blaze Boosters Suffer First Loss
 Final ->Overtime  [Rain or Shine-99   Petron-95]
Regulation Time - 87 All

Leading scorers for their teams - June Mar Fajardo [left/Petron] and Jervy Cruz [right/Rain or Shine]  grapple for possesion as Fajardo loses control.

 { Fajardo ->22 pts and 16 boards for Petron}

 {Cruz ->23 pts & 12 boards for Rain or Shine}

Five-frame sequence [below] shows Elasto Painters Paul Lee and Beau Belga try to gain control of the ball Arwind Santos [white] has just lost.  Lee and Belga also score double figures {Lee-15 / Belga-11}

  

Big vs Big

Beau Belga [#30] [2 photos above] and JR Quinahan [#48] [photo below]

take turns trying to stop "The Krakken", as Petron's Jun Mar Fajardo [#22] 

 is sometimes called

In the image below, Gabe Norwood [#5] tries to check Marcio Lassiter [#13]

 

Yup, 11 pts each from Quinahan, Belga and Norwood = 30. Add that to Cruz' 23 and Lee's 15 and Rain or Shine's Fab Five easily counts for 68 of Rain or Shines game total of 99.

Petron's Fab Five of Fajardo, Santos, Lutz, Cabagnot and Lassiter - meanwhile - combine for 88 [all but 7 of the Blaze Boosters game total of 95 !]

Arwind Santos - 18 pts.

Alex Cabagnot - 16 pts.

Marcio Lassiter - 10 pts.

Chris Lutz - 22 pts.[same w/ Fajardo]

So - with this Overtime loss - the Blaze Boosters end up tied with the Gin Kings, who also have a single loss [they were defeated by the Meralco Bolts].

This makes the X'Mas Day encounter between Ginebra and Petron MORE exciting, it being a battle for First Place in the standings. C U at the MoA on the 25th !!

Game Stats

Rain or Shine  vs  Petron

I missed the first Game between the Gin Kings and the Aces, 

but anyway,below are the Game Stats of that said encounter

Game Stats

Ginebra  vs  Alaska

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