SPDC Walloped SMFI Poultry

SPDC walloped SMFI Poultry 71-56. SPDC speed outmatched the ageing legs of SMFI Poultry. SPDC led by 10 points at halftime 32-22. The elephant eagle, Eric Irlandez, tried to rally SMFI-Poultry and almost succeeded, bringing the lead down to five with 5 minutes remaining in the game. Irlandez scored 14 points out of his 18 markers in the second half. However, in the closing minutes there is no more oxygen left in the tank of SMFI poultry and eventually succumbed to the much younger SPDC squad. Dandan Morandante of SMFI-Poultry helped the elephant eagle, Eric Irlandez, three-fourths of the way but went scoreless in the fourth quarter. Morandante finished with 18 points.

Erwin Betinol scored 18 points for SPDC mostly on converted fastbreaks. Betinol poured in 8 points in the closing minutes to take the fight out from SMFI Poultry mostly on fastbreak with converted bonus shots on foul-counted situations. Kominie Macaraya added 14 points and Limuel Lanutan contributed 10 points for SPDC.

Quarters: 10-12; 22-32; 38-49; 56-71

Boxscores:

SPDC 71 = Betinol 18, Macaraya 14, Lanutan 10, Baba 8, Remocaldo 8, Babao 6, Abubacar 4, Apang 3, Antalan 0, But 0, Omlero 0, Deporos 0.

SMFI-Poultry 51 = Irlandez 18, Morandante 18, Dacalano 14, Virtucio 3, Gutierrez 3, Barias 0, Virtudazo 0, Lebante 0, Gornez 0, Doronio 0, Molina 0.