La Salle Green Archers’ Jacob Cortez during a game against UP Fighting Maroons in the UAAP Season 88 men’s volleyball tournament. –UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–La Salle came back to repeat over defending champion University of the Philippines, 87-82, to keep an inside track at one of the two remaining Final Four berths in the UAAP Season 88 men’s basketball tournament on Saturday at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Jacob Cortez shrugged off an awful shooting affair by hitting two crucial shots in the fourth quarter while Earl Abadam also came through with a pair of baskets that enabled the Green Archers to complete their comeback victory before a crowd of over 10,000.
La Salle snapped a three-game skid and improved to 7-6 with a game left against archrival Ateneo on Wednesday.
La Salle Green Archers’ Mike Phillips during a game against UP Fighting Maroons in the UAAP Season 88 men’s volleyball tournament. –UAAP PHOTO
The Green Archers also kept their separation from two teams holding identical 6-7 slates in Adamson and Far Eastern University, which earlier in the day prevailed over University of the East, and 5-7 Ateneo going into the aforementioned rivalry game.
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Mike Phillips came through with 21 points and 14 rebounds, Vhoris Marasigan dropped 17 while Abadam and Cortez added 14 apiece for the Green Archers.
UP finished the eliminations at 10-4, but is already assured of a twice-to-beat advantage in the Final Four.
The Fighting Maroons, however, will go to the semis as the No. 2 seed as the loss assured the National University Bulldogs (11-2) of the best record in the league.
Rey Remogat scored 25 points for UP in the defeat that came after leading by a high of 16.
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