MANILA, Philippines — Harold Alarcon rose to the event and hit two essential triples that sparked University of the Philippines’ massive run halfway within the fourth en path to a 72-66 win that pushed the Fighting Maroons nearer to the UAAP Season 85 males’s basketball championship on Sunday.
When Ateneo minimize it right down to a two-point deficit within the payoff interval, 58-56, Alarcon stopped the bleeding with a nook three from Zavier Lucero’s block on Chris Koon’s dunk and capped a 10-2 run with a stepback triple to beat the shot clock and provides UP a 10-point lead, 68-58, with 4:39 left.
“Honestly siguro, hindi naman yung first possibility ko yung pag-score. Nagkataon lang na open ako so tinake ok…
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