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Blazers make strong move toward Final Four bonus


Benilde's Will Gozum (right) scored twice in the win.  —NCAA/GMA

Benilde’s Will Gozum (right) scored twice in the win. Tristan Tamayo’s photo/INQUIRER.net

The coach of St. Benilde, Charles Tiu, pretty much guessed the numbers on Friday afternoon.

“For us, it is [number] one or two doesn’t matter,” said Tiu. “It’s important to get the advantage twice to beat.”

He also has a solution made.

“I hope someone beats San Beda in the coming days before they face us,” the Blazers tactician added.

Not the St. Benilde is skipping the crucial stage of the NCAA Season 98 men’s basketball tournament. Stay away from it. In fact, the Blazers did a great job, standing up to a grueling final effort from the Lyceum to make a 100-88 victory and simplifying the task of defending two defeats in the semifinals. .

That win ignited a sixth loss for the Pirates and left them with a 12-6 record at the end of their knockout campaign. And with San Beda currently at 11-5, the Blazers will have two games to improve their 12-4 (win-lose) record—a draw with Letran for the first time—to win one of the two offers twice. beat to advance to the group stage. Quarterfinals.

Benilde has matches against Arellano and San Beda to wrap up the knockout campaign.

“We have two more matches in four days but we will [this] won,” said Tiu.

“When you get to the semi-finals, there’s no advantage anymore, it’s all 0-0. All you need to do is win a game or two depending on the seeding, so at least we know we just need to take care of the business and we know we still have a chance won outright second place,” he added.

Benilde barely struggled against Lyceum for most of the game, taking a 24 lead before the Pirates took the lead late in the half.

“For the most part I was happy before the last five minutes. It [the run] maybe it’s my fault because I tried to let some players play too early. If we had lost, I would have fired myself,” Tiu said.

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The Blazers took a 20-point lead in the fourth inning as the Pirates took an 18-5 lead, limited by JM Bravo’s three-point basket, to take the lead to seven, 95-88.

But Migs Oczon made a cushion free throw and finished with 18 points to close the game for the Blzers. Will Gozum scores a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds

Enoch Valdez scored 18 points in the Lyceum’s losing effort while Shawn Umali had 17 along with four boards and five blocks.

Previously, San Sebastian drew with Perpetual Help with a score of 78-74.

The Stags improved the score to 7-9 after narrowly taking a 13-point lead in the first half. They took control of the ship in the fourth round, defeating Altas with a 7-11 record and giving the San Sebastian seniors the opportunity to show their character with a high record.

“We don’t want to relax because we want to end this season hard, especially for me because this is my last season with Baste. I want our exit well and we want our last two games [be victories],” Itchie Altamirano said prominently.

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