Published on November 22, 2011
The Alaska Aces are playing their third game in six days but they are still hoping to make it three wins in a row as a belated birthday present for Alaska team owner Wilfred Steven Uytengsu turned 50 Tuesday.
The Aces take on a skidding Barangay Ginebra squad Wednesday as the race and positioning for the PBA Philippine Cup playoffs shifts to high gear going into the last three weeks of the elimination round.
Coming off wins over Powerade and Shopinas.com, Alaska takes on the Kings in the 5:15 p.m. first game at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Sol Mercado and Doug Kramer were caught by AKTV photographer Pranz Kaeno Billones sharing a tender moment after the Meralco Bolts’ victory over the Powerade Tigers last week. And they were doing it behind Asi Taulava’s back.
Games Wednesday (Smart-Araneta Coliseum)
5:15 p.m. — Ginebra vs Alaska
7:30 p.m. — Barako vs Meralco
MANILA, Philippines — The latest addition in the rosters of B-Meg and Barangay Ginebra after a three-team trade failed to create an impact when the Llamados and the Kings clashed in the PBA Philippine Cup Sunday night at the packed Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
Third year forward Rico Maierhofer played 11 minutes but only had two points, two rebounds in his Ginebra debut, while veteran center Yancy de Ocampo of B-Meg was scoreless in only four minutes of action with two boards and one assist.
B-MEG capitalized on Barangay Ginebra’s series of miscues midway in the fourth quarter and took an 88-76 win for its fourth straight victory in the 2011 PBA Philippine Cup Sunday night at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.
James Yap tallied 17 points but was held down to just 2 in the final canto. That was when the rest of the Llamados took over and thwarted the Kings’ uprising.
Rookie Mark Barroca had another solid game off the bench with 14 points on 7-of-12 shooting, PJ Simon added 12 while Josh Urbiztondo, Marc Pingris and Kerby Raymundo each had 10 for BMEG, which now joined Meralco for fourth spot with 6-4 slate.
Published on November 20, 2011
B-Meg went to other sources when James Yap struggled as it turned back a fiesty Brgy. Ginebra, 88-76, Sunday night to improve to a share of fourth with Meralco in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
Yap ended up leading five other teammates with double-digit scores with 17 points but it was the uncanny tandem of Marc Pingris and Roger Yap who came through in the clutch, firing six points apiece in the crucial stretch to help seal it for the Llamados.
It was B-Meg's fourth straight victory and sixth overall to jump to a joint No. 4 with the Bolts and just a full game behind the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters and Petron Blaze Boosters, who are jammed at No. 2 on 7-3 cards.
Alaska needed a couple of defensive stops to repulse the stubborn Shopinas five, 86-80, for its first back-to-back wins in the 2011 PBA Philippine Cup Sunday at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.
Sonny Thoss and Jay-R Reyes had key blocks in the final stretch as the Aces weathered the uprising of the Clickers, who absorbed their 11th straight loss in as many games.
Thoss had 15 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks in an all-around performance while Reyes also had a sterling game with 13 markers, 17 boards and 4 blocks as Alaska tied Powerade for 8th spot with 3-7 slate.
Published on November 19, 2011
Alaska Milk may have found a new player that fits perfectly well to the power forward position -- Mac Baracael.
With Baracael playing the position to the hilt, the Aces totally outgunned the Powerade Tigers, 121-111, Friday at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum in one of the most high-scoring matches in the PBA Philippine Cup.
The energetic Baracael, who also played the No. 4 post with former team Smart Gilas Pilipinas, exploded with a career-best 22 points off the bench in an impressive six-of-10 shooting from the field and nine-of-11 from the free throw line that went with six rebounds, two assists and some solid defense.
MANILA, Philippines — B-Meg and Barangay Ginebra clash Sunday in a game that may show which team benefited more from the recent trade that involved two of their major players.
B-Meg obtained 6-9 center Yancy de Ocampo from Ginebra which in turn got young forward Rico Maierhofer from B-Meg plus Allein Maliksi from Red Bull.
The two teams collide at 5:30 p.m. at the resumption of the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum and the question foremost in the minds of observers is which team got it right?
B-Meg mentor Tim Cone has no doubt that De Ocampo will improve his team’s ‘‘triangle offense’’ system.
The rivalry between Barangay Ginebra and the Purefoods franchise remains the biggest rivalry in the PBA. Even though the two teams barely figure in playoff encounters against each other — the two franchises have only met in the finals twice, in 1988 and 1997, despite having been together in the league for 24 seasons — the animosity between the team’s fans have remained heated.
A lot of it has to do with image. Ginebra has always been the franchise of the masses, playing the rough-and-tumble Robert Jaworski game, while Purefoods (now know as B-MEG) has always been the league’s glamor team, in the image of Alvin Patrimonio. The faces of the two teams, Mark Caguioa and James Yap — quite frankly, still the two biggest stars in the PBA today — are spiritual successors of Jaworski and Patrimonio, who first faced off against each other in the 1988 All-Filipino championship, won by the Anejo team that was carried by the Ginebra franchise back then. Videos inside...
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