Taken from the AAXS website
I smell another championship looming... :D See you on the court...
*Note that King Stallion Jeric Teng outscored the entire opposing team, 52-43!!
Luceat Lux!!
Xavier wins in Tiong Lian Opener
12 January 2009 | 1:11 PM
culled from YEHEY.com
Xavier School opened its title-retention bid in the Juniors Division of the 39th Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association tournament with a lopsided 120-43 victory over Hope Christian High School Saturday night (Jan. 10) at the Uno Gym.
It was so hard to create an interesting story line to this (mis)match. The revenge factor was not even an afterthought, even if some would like to believe it was a payback for the Golden Stallions’ loss to Hope Christian during the Coca-Cola Summer league some months ago.
Xavier went full throttle with its full-court trapping defense from start to finish, resulting in numerous Hope turnovers and easy fastbreak baskets by the Gold and Blue.
Xavier got off to a 5-0 start and never trailed thereafter. It grabbed a 29-7 lead after the first 10-minute quarter and enjoyed a 66-22 advantage at halftime.
If this were a baseball contest, the game would have been called off right then and there (without the second half) under the “mercy” rule. Hope, after all, scored only 43 points for the entire game and Xavier surpassed that mark as early as midway through the second quarter.
The game, played like those in the playgrounds with a lot of running and gunning, thus went on and Xavier owned a 93-32 edge at the end of the third quarter.
Xavier hit the century mark, 101-35, on a pair of free throws by prolific-scoring Jeric Teng, and took its biggest lead, 80 points (120-40), with a minute and 40 seconds remaining on a three-pointer by Teng.
Jeric, the reigning Tiong Lian scoring champion in the Juniors Division, wound up with 52 points, 13 rebounds and five assists. He went 6-for-16 beyond the three-point arc in the freewheeling game that was completed in less than 80 minutes.
Two other Xaverians finished with double-digit scores – Ian Umali, 16, and Jose Anton Manuel, 12. Nel Lim had nine.
Jeron Teng, Jeric’s younger brother, contributed eight markers while Donal Ong added seven.
Jeron, who was elevated to the Juniors ranks after a sterling performance in the Aspirants Division a year ago during which he powered the school past Chiang Kai Shek College for its sixth consecutive championship while averaging a whopping 34.1 points a game, including a high of 55 against St. Stephen’s High School, was inserted into the starting lineup alongside Jeric.
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