The Beermen Wins Against Air21 to Face Kings in best-of-3 series
San Miguel Beer subordinated the Air21 Express practically on all fronts, pulling off a comfortable 105-86 victory to gain entry into the KFC PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals at the Araneta Coliseum Sunday night.
Picking up from where they left off in their game against the Coca-Cola Tigers last Dec. 28, the Beermen made it 3-0 over the Express in their head-on duels in the conference.
It’s Sta. Lucia versus Rain or Shine in the opener and San Miguel against Ginebra for the main game at the start of the best-of-three quarterfinals showdowns Wednesday in the same venue.
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Salvacion Saves Ginebra against Coca-Cola
Ginebra’s guard Sunday Salvacion lit up the scoreboard in the fourth quarter to help his team beat Coca-Cola, 84-77, in Thursday’s game in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Olivarez College Sports Center.
Salvacion’s outside sniping, four straight for 12 points, in the final canto helped keep the Tigers at bay and secure the Kings’ third straight win.
Coke rallied from 21 points down in the first half and threatened at 56-55, on a Ronjay Enrile three-pointer with 10:35 left in the game clock.
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Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines which founded in 1975. It is known as the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. PBA is currently applying the rules of FIBA and National Basketball Association. The league is recently headed by Commissioner Sonny Barrios.
From 1975-2003, a season was usually composed of three conferences. From the 1993 season, the conferences were named All Filipino, Commissioner’s Cup, and Governors Cup, usually ending in a best-of-7 Finals series match wherein the winner takes the Conference Cup. If the same team wins all of the conferences, the team is said to be the “Grand Slam” champion. A draft was held on January.
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SMB’s Mick Pennisi Shows his Best Performance against the Tigers
Mick Pennisi had his best performance night wearing a San Miguel Beer uniform and the Beermen repelled a late uprising by the Coca-Cola Tigers to win, 89-86 for their seventh victory in nine games in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Cuneta Astrodome.
SMB’s center scored a season high 18 points which nine of them scored in the fourth quarter and shot 5-of-8 from three-point land while Jay Washington had seven in the payoff period as San Miguel tied Alaska for the lead going into the preliminaries’ final nine games.
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It’s All about San Miguel Beermen
The San Miguel Beermen is one of the current teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). They are a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 17. The team’s franchise is owned by the Philippines’ largest food and beverage conglomerate, San Miguel Corporation. The beermen is one of three PBA ball clubs owned by SMC affiliates and subsidiaries. They are also one of nine companies who broke away from the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association in 1975 due to their dismay with the Basketball Association of the Philippines. This led to the formation of the first professional basketball league known as the PBA.
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Rain or Shine have their first debut in the 2008-2009 PBA Philippine Cup
It was known before as the Welcoat Paints Dragons, the Asian Coating franchise will now be called Rain or Shine Elastopainters. There is a new name, a new game and a better direction for the PBA franchise of the Asian Coatings Philippines this time around. To welcome the arrival of another blue-chip player into its fold who it hopes will help turn its fortunes around, Asian Coatings will carry one of its flagship brands “Rain or Shine” when it resumes its bid for a first-ever championship in the coming PBA Philippine Cup. The team owners Raymond Yu and Terry Que are both hopeful of the positive impact the team’s new name will have in the pro league, saying the product it is carrying right now is a catch phrase among Filipinos.
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