Green Archers gain 2x to beat Advantage
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Even if they lost twice against Ateneo this 70th UAAP men’s basketball season, La Salle has earned the most important win against their archrival.
The De La Salle Green Archers relied on their stifling defense to prevail over the Ateneo Blue Eagles, 70-69, in a neck-to-neck battle to clinch the second slot last September 18 at the Araneta Coliseum.
Inspired by its supporters at the Big Dome, De La Salle displayed its pressure defense to limit Ateneo to only four points in the pivotal final two-minute mark to help the Green Archers secure a twice-to-beat edge.
The Blue Eagles, with the loss, have dropped to No. 3 and will face the reigning UAAP champs and fourth seed University of Santo Tomas in the semifinals. Then, the winner will meet La Salle in a step-ladder semifinal match.
“I’m so confident we can win this game even if we lost twice to them,” said La Salle head coach Franz Pumaren. “I coached for more than 120 games in the UAAP and I never though that there is no second chance.”
Although they were down by a few points in the first half, the Green Archers didn’t give up as they bounced back strong in the final two quarters to keep the game in striking distance even seizing the lead.
La Salle was down by 12-13 and 28-32 at the first and second periods, respectively, but was able to regroup in the third quarter were it outscored Ateneo, 22-15, to snatch the lead at the start of the fourth quarter, 50-47.
Veteran off-guard Joseph Evans Casio, displayed his relentless leadership skills all-throughout, exploded for 10 of his 21 points in the third quarter along with six rebounds and three steals to lead La Salle.
“It’s a second chance for me after my worst performance against Ateneo the last time we met,” said Casio, referring to La Salle’s 89-87 loss against Ateneo last September 9 where he only made five points. “At last, we got this win.”
In fact, Ateneo only needed to beat National University last Saturday for the 2nd spot. But the Blue Eagles suffered an upset at the hands of the Bulldogs, 96-88, and forced a playoff game between these two rivals.
“It’s our second chance,” said Pumaren. “We were talking about second chance after Ateneo lost to NU last Saturday and I’m glad we’re able to make our second chance valuable to us.”
After three deadlocks in the fourth quarter, La Salle’s stalwart PJ Walsham scored a go-ahead basket off a pass from Maierhofer to provide them a 67-65 advantage with 2:37 minutes to go in the fourth period.
Casio scored on a lay-up to extend the lead, 69-65, with 1:54 minutes to go then Chris Tiu trimmed the gap to 67-69 after making two free throws with 1:45 minutes left.
The Blue Eagles, however, failed to score hoping to tie or regain the lead in the remaining moments as the Green Archers’ rock-solid defense were there to hold off the Blue Eagles.
Guard Cholo Villanueva, who had seven points, scored on a split free throw to give La Salle a 70-67 lead with only 9.3 seconds to go.
With La Salle’s intimidating presence in the back court, Ateneo’s Laterre was forced to score inside the arc as time expired to peg the final count.
Lanky Rico Maierhofer added 13 points and hauled down 12 rebounds. While playmaker Tyrone Tang produced eight of his 10 points in the final period. And Peejay Barua had nine points for La Salle.
Kirk Long led Ateneo with 11 points, while teammates Chris Tiu and Eric Salamat had 11 each for the Blue Eagles, who are 2-1 against La Salle this season.
During the game, the Green Archers were wearing a No. 15 patch at the left side of their jersey showing their concern to teammate Brian Ilad, who was suspended for five games by the technical committee after punching Mark Pamfulme of UE last September 14.
Individual scores:
La Salle 70: Casio 21, Maierhofer 13, Tang 10, Barua 9, Villanueva 7, Walsham 6, Ferdinand 2, Mangahas 2, Malabes 0, Atkins 0.
Ateneo 69: Long 11, Tiu 10, Salamat 10, Laterre 9, Arao 8, Al-Hussaini 7, Baclao 4, Escueta 4, Reyes 2, Nkemakolam 2, Barracoso 2, Monfort 0.
Quarter scoring 12-13, 28-32, 50-47, 70-69
Tags: Ateneo, blue-eagles, Franz-Pumaren, Green-Archers, La-Salle, News, Norman-Black, Robert-Kave, UAAPRelated posts
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wushu team
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 8:16 pm
to THE NINJA: wushu,sige na, unfair na kung unfair. bakit di mo sabihin kay Ed Cordero yan?
wushu team
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 8:16 pm
to THE NINAJA: wushu,sige na, unfair na kung unfair. bakit di mo sabihin kay Ed Cordero yan?
THE NINJA
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 4:03 pm
JUST WAIT AND SEE IF ATENEO LOSS THE GAME TODAY THEY WILL PUT THE SCHED ON SUN BUT IT SHOULD BE SAT.AND WAG NA TAYO MAGULAT NA MAULIT NGAYON NA ANG ROOKIE OF THE YEAR NGAYON EH ATENEO ULIT.DI KO NAMAN SINASABI NA DAPAT DLSU BUT MAS MARAMI PANG DESERVING NGAYON JUST LIKE LAST YEAR BAKIT HINDE SI JONAS NG FEU BONBON NG UE.WAIT NA LANG KAYO NEXT SEASON ANG ROOKIE OF THE YEAR SA DLSU NA GALING!IN THE NAME OF JOSHUA WEBB!SUMAKAY PA KAYO!
THE NINJA
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 3:54 pm
napansin ko lang panig ang uaap sa ateneo.UNFAIR!
1.A SHOT OF RICO IS NOT COUNTED BASE ON TIME BUT THE FOUL IS COUNTED.RYT!SO THERE SHOULD BE A FREE THROW
2.THE PLAYOFF GAME OF LA SALLE THEY ANNOUNCE IT 1ST MON DAW TAPOS BIGLA TUES NA.Y?PARA MG PREPARE?
3.SABI NILA NUNG UMPISA ANG MATALO DUN EH MAKAKALABAN NG UST BY TUES.TAPOS BIGLANG GINAWANG SAT?PARA READY?
4.THE GAME NOW SHOULD BE SUN BINAGO ULIT GINAWANG THURS?ANU LAGI NA LANG SINASAGIP NG SCHED ANG TAE NEO
5.HINDE PA BA SAPAT YUNG RAINY SEASON PREPARE NYO
6.ANG MGA ATENISTA HINDE KITA SA COURT UNG PANUNUNTOK BUT AKALA MO KUNG SINO SILA MAKAPAGSALITA SA LABAS NG DOME SILA NANUNUNTOK
GO ARCHERS!
Marvin
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 10:41 pm
Still, it’s DLSU. Whatever you say folks, La Salle will always be competitive.
stevie green
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 10:05 pm
even if fampalume some sort of over reacted during that incident, still ilad’s action was totally unacceptable and unjustifiable.
Gorilla
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 10:00 pm
What do Salgado & Ilad have in common? they both hit someone’s head at the back. would anyone expect such kind of unsportsmanlike gesture to come from a prestigious and reputed & righteous university like DLSU? it’s always to easy to justify your own player’s misdeeds, maybe because the school doesn’t care anyway about their reputation to the public?
tanginesta
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 5:43 am
blue_tarik: tama yung “sun rises in the east”.
baka sabihin mo din “the sun sets TO the west”.
Taenista
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 4:49 am
Ang mga Taenista talaga. Grammar police. Tae niyo. Sa Call Center din lang naman bagsak niyo.
blue_talon
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 4:43 am
Sun rises in the East
Tuesday, 25th September 2007 at 10:58 pm
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Rises from and not in. You are so TH naman, duh.
blue_talon
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 4:41 am
Agilang-mababa, we are the grammar lords over here. Why don’t you just make La Salsal?
doug
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 10:59 pm
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD ..
Dude, less talk.. Less mistake!
If you can’t speak the language that much at least know the basics.. will you? LOL!
Sun rises in the East
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 10:58 pm
I have a high regard to Ateneo & La Salle,
but i couldn’t see any trace of erudite & sophistication — not even a hint
Hehehehe
berdengutak
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 9:38 pm
dear agilang-mababa-ang-lipad,
Your Lasallite breeding definitely shows in your posts. Magna cum laude ka ba?
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 9:30 pm
pakyu TAENEO
username
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 7:36 pm
You missed one by the way…
“i don’t know ateneans are obsessive compulsive pala”
It should have been “didn’t” instead of dont. Past perfect tense kasi =)
Pero fine, lets do it your way…
I dont know that exherting effort to make sure that your spelling and grammar is correct before you post on-line for the whole world to see is considered an Obsessive Compulsive symptom already!! Really?? All the while I think (hehe - instead of thought) it was supposed to be the norm, the standard, the minimum… What will the children who read these posts learn from your writing??
HEre’s anotehr one pala…
“knowing that you’re in this site you should expect na mga distracting ang mga messages dito!”
- It should be “on” this site and not “in”
Why in the world would I have to expect that the posts here would be distracting? Are you saying that I should expect the writers that contribute to inboundpass to have incorrect spelling and grammar??
For the record, I sincerely do not.
username
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 3:36 pm
=)
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 1:50 pm
oh ayan in-case ulit may mag correct ah… typographical error ulit i mean “PITY” not PITTY… baka umiral nanaman ang pagiging obsessive compulsive ng mga AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD JAN! HAHAHA!
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 1:47 pm
to USERNAME:
oh my… i don’t know ateneans are obsessive compulsive pala… hahaha! i pitty you guys! i don’t know where the hell department you came from pero… thanks sa corrections eventhough… it only proved na may mga sira kayo sa tuktok! bwahahaha! i advice you to seek a consult!
“hirits”– sige hiritan kita… TAE NEO oh i mean ateneo will remain ateneo and LA SALLE will be still LA SALLE! put that in your neurons! and i hope that your neuronal activity runs well… for any dysfunction will just make you more “pathetic” hahaha!
“Otherwise, we are distracted too much to even take to heart what you are saying to us” DUH… knowing that you’re in this site you should expect na mga distracting ang mga messages dito! SUS-me! ang mga Atenista talaga nag uumarte nanaman! kaya nga ba AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD-TALAGA eh…
hirit ka pa? :)
username
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 9:34 am
At the risk of being called a righteous Atenean and all the other possible comebacks that may be posted in relation to this… I just really cant stand for the grammatical errors in Agilang Mababa Ang Lipad’s post.
Kindly allow me a chance to vent as I feel Im going to have nightmares if I dont…
1. “and naka moved on na kami (eh kayo?) come on guys!” - naka-move on, no need for the “d”
2. “(except to Christ Tiu)” - no need for “to”
3. “still he deserve it” - it should be “deserved”
4. “in case some one correct me”- it should be “someone” and “corrects”
Again, risking all the possible hostile and violent reactions, I have just one advise: If you (whatever school you are from) will be throwing ill words at Ateneans, the first step of getting through us would be to ensure that your “hirits” are spelled correctly and grammatically correct. Otherwise, we are distracted too much to even take to heart what you are saying to us.
GO-ASORO
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 8:14 am
TO ….. PARANG SI TENORIO NANUNTOK DIN NA HND ALAM NI GACO AH. TAPOS WALANG SANCTION. HALATANG DATI PALANG NILULUTO NA ANG LASALLE.
TO ATANACIO. TAO LANG KAMI EH. KAYA NAGKAKAMALI KAMI. AND BTW BIGLA KO LANG NAALALA… PARANG NAPAKAIMPOSSIBLE NA MAGING ROOKIE OF THE YEAR SI JAI REYES… UN NA ANG PINAKAKALOKOHAN NA NAKITA KO NA BINIGYAN NG ROOKIE AWARD. EH DI DATI PALANG MAY GINAGAWA NG MAGIC ANG MGA TAGA ATENEO.
atanacio.gm
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 12:55 am
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD, reading your post was quite tiring. too many words, so little thought. which made me realize the futility of it all. greens and blues, at least uaap-wise, will never be on the same side. we bash each other, year in, year out. if you take all these posts and save them, i’m sure they’d be relevant still in the next few years (who knows maybe we’ll chant “SUSPENDED IN 2006″ so we can really be more accurate and maybe well, you’d thank NU again).
as i said in another post, i’ll choose ateneo, win or lose. so cheer for your side and i’ll cheer for mine.
Go Ateneo! One Big Fight!
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD
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Monday, 24 September 2007 at 11:40 pm
oh just in-case some one correct me i mean Chris Tiu (typographical error) kung alam nyo yun… search nyo nalang sa google hahaha!
AGILANG-MABABA-ANG-LIPAD
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Monday, 24 September 2007 at 11:38 pm
To atanacio!
whatever!!! as if naman lahat ng atenista magaling sa spelling… TAE NEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY oh shocks i mean the other way around!!! haha! (medyo mahina talaga ako sa spelling) especially kung medyo CORNY yung NAME or WORDS oh kaya parang hindi pansinin.. Aw!!
i can say magaling ang mga atenista mag-yabang! well… speaking of MANUNTOK — correct me if i’m wrong pero si Pacquiao atah jan plan pumasok sa school nyo??? oh at least he can teach you some punching techniques! and suspended? oh atleast La Sallians knows how to move on… and naka moved on na kami (eh kayo?) come on guys! 2006 malapit ng mag 2008! i update nyo naman ang mga calendar nyo! mukang nasa jurassic period parin kayo! hahaha well… mukang dun sa TIME nyo naman nakuha yung mga players nyo (except to Christ Tiu) hahaha! SUS-me! (oh ayan i used your favorite three-letter word nah ha…) hahaha!
Animo La Salle! and lastly i believe WE the GREEN ARCHERS WILL MAKE IT SA FINALS! did you see how close the game was BEFORE the OT between UE and DLSU? bago matanggal si Rico and Jvee? I can’t wait to see the next game of UE and DLSU! my heart was broken when I see how Fampulme react after being punched! (still he deserve it) aroganteng bata kasi! hahaha!
and to all Atenista! bagay sa inyo 3rd placer! better luck next time guys! i guess BLUE WILL REMAIN BLUE AFTER ALL… hahaha! MGA AGILANG MABABA ANG LIPAD!
atanacio.gm
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Monday, 24 September 2007 at 3:21 pm
stewie, i think the more you are criticized, the more you strive to be criticized further. i need not present evidence i think your schoolmate 10310657 enumerated it quite well.
10310657, yup magaling nga kayo. magaling kayo mag-wrong spelling, manuntok, mambatok, magpa-suspend.
Very good! Keep up the good work!
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Monday, 24 September 2007 at 3:06 pm
“After all it was Fampulme who started the commotion. If you are in his position, right there and there.. U also did the same thing.. :)”
First of all, the grammatically correct version of what you are trying to say is: You would have done the same thing… I wonder what your “letter to your friend” was like
And for the record… NO, I wouldn’t have punched a guy who had his back turned… So bading!
I heard from La Sallian friends that La Sallians are trying to justify the punch by saying that the reason Ilad punched him was that he did something to Franz Pumaren that the La Sallians no longer want to discuss… Sus! Lame… and even more bading actually!
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Monday, 24 September 2007 at 2:57 pm
Siguro kaya maraming naaasar sa Lasalle dahil hnd sila nakapasa sa entrance exam sa Lasalle.
First of all, ganda nanaman ng spelling mo ng pangalan ng school mo.
Second, wag mong ipagmalaki ang entrance test nyo. I still remember the last item. “Write a letter to your friend” - Grabe, so college level!
I took the test with a hangover and still passed! Sus!
an archer
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 at 2:21 pm
TO: SUSPENDED-AL SALLE
“After all it was Fampulme who started the commotion.” - Please check out the photo in the September 14 issue of Phil Star… Rico’s cheap shot …. Have fun…
um….i’ve seen the game live, was sitting pa nga ringside..
From what school ka? Are you aware of the law of gravity? that everything falls? What happened to Rico was like that, it was not his fault that he fell, kasi nga may LAW OF GRAVITY.
any elementary student would know that…maybe you should retake that course…ehem..subject..oh..lesson lang pala.
Animo La Salle!
red blood
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 at 11:25 am
archers will fall in the hands of the warriors.
Vladz
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 at 8:36 pm
The fact remains, La Salle is La Salle.
And La Salle will bring home the trophy. Other UAAP teams, better luck next time.
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