(MENAFN- Arab Times) Micheal Uyang had 18 points; Alvin Licup added 13 for Yousef Power to zoom past Kuwait Gilas 76-73 as the PBLK league fourth conference continued at the Khaitan Sports Club Friday afternoon. Uyang poured in 18 points while Licup collected 13 points, 11 rebounds, two assists and two blocks for second- seed Yousef Power squad, who won eight of their ten matches so far and gunning for the top spot in direct competition with the top guns who occupy the first and second spots in the Inter-Company group. Briones added 12 points and 10 rebounds in the Power win. Uyang scored six of his 18 points in the final 2 minutes as Yousef Power recovered to pull out the win.
Power led by 5 early in the first quarter with before Gilas went on an 8-6 run to roll back the deficit to four points with 4:12 playtime still left in the half. Power continued to lead on a Simbol double jumper that pushed them four points past Kuwait Gilas on a 6-2 run in the first three minutes of proceedings, leading to a 15-8 first quarter run for Power.
Then Gilas went on an 8-1run and led by two in the second quarter, capped off by an alley-hoop play with Ronnel Flores passing to Albert Villanueva for an emphatic Gilas bucket. Then Power struggled, missing three consecutive shots, and Gilas capitalized and pulled to 28-33 at halftime, still down by 5 points.
In the third round, Power started making shots again but the resurgent Gilas squad managed to cuff Uyang somewhat as the defense thwarted most of his moves at the hoop, but Power, nonetheless, kept up the pressure to finish the third still ahead by 13 points, 54-41.
Power took the lead into the fourth quarter, but Gilas stormed back with a 16-9 run to open the final period at 69-71 and in the ensuing final stretch battle, Licup made a shot that hit the board and as the ball rebounded in Uyang's hands, the point guard quickly flipped a pass to Tao-On who carefully lobbed it from behind the arc for the winning three pointer as the clock counted down to 0.02 seconds, to hand Yousef Power the win at 76-73.
Meanwhile, Kuwait Steel handed Kalexco an 83-65 drubbing in the second match of the day on the backs of Cristin Bacucanag and Joshua Castro who finished with 14 and 12 points apiece. Ferdie Cortez of Kalexco racked up 27 points ahead of all players on the field despite his team's loss.
In the next 5'8"game, FKTC controlled the first half leading by a whopping 30 points, 66-36 against the C.OC Boiz. But the third quarter belonged to C.O.C who rallied with a 30-28 run to slightly narrow the gap at 94-66. The final quarter saw a 33-23 performance by C.O.C which brought the results to 117-99 for an FKTC win. Lawrence Dee had 26 points for FKTC while C.O.C's Arthur Magbanua collected 31 to lead all scorers in the field.
On the other hand, K.A.I beat Banta 70-64 in an inter-company game while Triballers outpointed the 3X3 squad 90-83. Body Building in the last match outpaced Papa-Zaj 82-54 to close the weekend's activities.
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