Basketball Australia : Philippines notch third win on Aussie tour

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Philippines notch third win on Aussie tour

19.03.10

The Philippines ran away with a 101-84 win over the Canberra Gunners at Belconnen Basketball Stadium on Thursday night.

The visitors got it down in the opening quarter when they escaped to a 29-14 lead that was never assailed.

The Gunners settled into the game in the second quarter, matching it with the Philippines at 20 points apiece in the term.

The Gunners took the third quarter 29-20 and had closed the gap to six points, 69-63.

But the Philippines stormed home in the final term to take the game by 17 points.

The Philippines now travel to Sydney where they take on the New South Wales Institute of Sport at 7.00pm.

You can follow that game on LIVESTATS from 7.00pm AEDT.

[Box Score]

PHILIPPINES 101 (D Ababou 20, M Baracael 15, C Tui 14) def
CANBERRA GUNNERS 84 (G Baird 14, Z Todorovski 13, J Miller 13)
At Belconnen Basketball Stadium

Tour Schedule:
(click on the games below for LIVE STATS)

Friday 19 March: Philippines v NSWIS – 7.00pm (game not open to public), Sydney
Sunday 21 March: Philippines v Sydney City – 3.00pm at Alexandria Basketball Stadium

Photo courtesy of FIBA.com

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lovely, 22-03-10 16:48:

Next time, we hope to see the the Philippine national team playing against a tough team from australia perhaps the australia under 23 team, because the age of the philippine national team players are 23 years old and below and not 19 yrs. old and below. Thanks

lovely, 22-03-10 16:28:

I'll be happy to see the Philippine national team smart gilas( who's current players age are 23 years old and below) playing against the Australian Under 23 or an NBL team. I think it will be a good match than the game between the Philippine team against Canberra Gunners 101-84, Phil. team vs. Australia under 19, 78-67, Phil. teams against NWIS 82-63. Its a blowout game.

lovely, 22-03-10 16:19:

The game between Philippine National Team (23 years old and below) against Australia Developmental League team were more beneficial for the australian basketball community. How i wish next time, Australia will allow its Under 23 mens team or the NBL professional league teams to compete against smart gilas. Philippine team consist of player under 23 has a wide gap against Australian under 19, in terms of age alone.

Pawel, 22-03-10 12:04:

What's going on, I missed this game :( but at least lemme read the results and play-by-play while I'm bored at work.

Tony, 21-03-10 20:11:

What is going on with the other two games?

Tonzi, 21-03-10 18:37:

Sydney City Comets defeated by Philippines National Training team 81-73. By the way, that pic of the national team above is the old national team which is going to be replaced by this present team that tours Australian other league teams.

David, 21-03-10 16:51:

Why isn't live scores working for city of Sydney game. Anyone having trouble?

Pierce, 21-03-10 16:03:

I think you got the wrong picture inserted. This was before national team.

Ronnie, 20-03-10 14:21:

The report on the Philippines vs NWSIS team was supposed to be available at 7:00 p.m. on March 19.
Its now past 11:00 a.m. on March 20 but still no result. What's gone wrong? Thank You.

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