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PBA: Jayjay Helterbrand repeats as confab's best |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 03:01 |
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 MANILA, Philippines – Ginebra ace guard Jayjay Helterbrand captured the Best Player of the Conference (BPC) honors in the PBA reinforced tourney for the second straight year.
Helterbrand repeated as Fiesta Conference best player, winning the coveted award this season over Burger King’s Arwind Santos, San Miguel’s Dondon Hontiveros, Coca-Cola’s Asi Taulava and Talk n Text’s Jimmy Alapag. The 32-year-old Kentucky State U product was awarded his plaque by PBA commissioner Sonny Barrios in a simple ceremony before Game Two of the Ginebra-San Miguel showdown for the Fiesta Conference championship. The Best Import award went to San Miguel’s Gabe Freeman who won it over Ginebra’s David Noel, Burger King’s Shawn Daniels and Rain or Shine’s Jai Lewis. “I’m happy to win this award but this would mean nothing if we don’t win the championship. I’m sharing the honor with my teammates who also worked hard to help where we are right now,” said Helterbrand, the first player in eight years to successfully defend a BPC award. |
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PBA: Aggressive Beermen rebounds to tie Fiesta Cup title series in Game 2 |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 02:57 |
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 MANILA, Philippines – San Miguel fought back aggressively to even its Motolite-PBA Fiesta Cup Finals with Ginebra, beating the defending champions, 95-78, Friday night at the Araneta Coliseum.
Marc Pingris came off the bench to score 10 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter as San Miguel survived this time a Ginebra team that tried once more to live by the three-point shot but miserably failed. Gabe Freeman, the best import awardee who spent much of the night at the bench because of foul trouble, still finished with 23 points and 17 rebounds while Jay Washington scored all of his 17 points in the first half. “I wouldn’t say we dominated," said SMB coach Siot Tanquingcen. “Basically our defense slowed them down. The players just came out mentally prepared for this game." The best-of-seven series is now tied at 1-1 with Game 3 set also at the Big Dome Sunday. The Beermen, who gave away 20 offensive rebounds in Game 1, trampled the Gin Kings in the battle off the boards. They had 57 rebounds against the 40 by their opponents, and then held their sister-team to a horrible shooting from the three-point area. |
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Japeth impresses Guiao, PBA officials |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 02:39 |
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 MANILA, Philippines - Japeth Aguilar is for real. The 6-foot-9 Pampangueño, honed up by his stint with the Western Kentucky U in the US NCAA, proved he can really be a big addition to the Powerade Team Pilipinas with a decent showing against a visiting US team last night at The Arena in San Juan.
The home team topped the Soldiers for Christ squad, 100-94, in a tune-up where coach Yeng Guiao and a good crowd in the venue saw what Aguilar can contribute to the Nationals. Aguilar, son of former Northern Consolidated Cement player Peter, easily proved he can be an intimidating defensive and frontline presence for the team. “I’m satisfied with what I saw. There are lots of positives that are in store for Japeth,” said Guiao. “I think there are still a lot Japeth has to improve on, but the potential is there. At the moment, he’s still feeling again the local brand of play. The last time he played here was college ball with Ateneo, and that’s a long time ago,” Guiao added. |
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