Gilas Pilipinas redemption bid resumes against Singaporeans

PHNOM PENH—The redemption campaign was supposed to be about the gold medal at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games but after Thursday night’s lopsided loss to a Cambodian side that looked more than a Team USA reinforced by locals, the fightback has been momentarily reduced to the pool play for Gilas Pilipinas.

Gilas Pilipinas tries to bounce back for a semifinals berth when it faces Singapore Saturday at the resumption of men’s basketball action at the Morodok Techo Elephant Hall 2.

The Philippines enters the match at 1 p.m. (2 p.m. in Manila) hoping for a fightback from its 7968 loss to Cambodia two nights ago.

H ead coach Chot Reyes said the team needs to play better after shooting just 36 percent against Cambodia amid the sweltering heat inside the venue.

Naturalized player Justin Brownlee suffered from cramps and dehydration and scored just 10 points.

It was just a terrible first half for us,” Reyes said.

“You saw what happened. Justin couldn’t move, severely dehydrated. The heat really got to him. But later on, he played better but then he was cramping up already because he lost too much fluids.”

“It’s something that we can learn on and move on,” he said. “We go to the next game and then, prepare for the knockout semifinals.”

Tension flared when Cambodia coach Marcus Savaya called a timeout with 20.7 seconds remaining in the contest and the result already settled.

I just want to be very polite. You all saw what happened. That’s just an unwritten rule, that’s just culture. And it’s not even coaching ethics, it’s just ethics,” Reyes said. “Just ethics, right? So, you know, if he wants to—if the other coach wants to make a fool of himself, then that’s on him. That’s not our problem.”

Singapore tries to play the spoilers’ role but it will be a difficult task, having lost to Cambodia, 8560, and Malaysia, 93-70, in their previous contests.

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Oranza bags 2nd bronze medal in strength-sapping road event

IEM REAP—Ronald Oranza raced for the second straight but still settled for his second bronze medal in men’s individual road race of cycling on Friday in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games. ith Oranza’s bronze in criterium the other day, Filipino cyclists now has four medals the others a silver and a bronze in mountain bike.

Just like yesterday [Thursday, criterium], today’s race was just as tough but again, my medal is the result of teamwork with my fellow Filipino riders,” said Oranza, who was also third in criterium on Thursday. “ We followed what our coaches told us and it again worked,” he added. Oranza was on the wheels of gold medalist Mur Amirull Mazuki of Malaysia and silver medalist Aiman Cahyadi of Indonesia in the sprint finish after the 150.60-km event raced six laps over a 25.10-km flat circuit.

A ll three submitted identical clocking of three hours, 22 minutes and 50 seconds.

Thank God, answered prayers,” said an emotional national team coach Reinhard Gorantes. “This is perhaps the best assembled team in years in terms of the riders’ teamwork and adherence to the game plan.”

The men and women road teams as well as the coaching staff were revamped by the PhilCycling in February. Gorantes was retained and added to the coaching staff were Virgilio Espiritu, Alfie Catalan, Marita Lucas and Gerald Valdez.

The team and the coaches are grateful to Cong. Bambol Tolentino for trusting us,” he added.

Tolentino is the president of PhilCycling and the Philippine Olympic Committee which, along with the Philippine Sports Commission, is supporting Team Philippines’ participation in the games. The revamped yielded results— from last year’s zero-medal performance in Vietnam, the national road cycling team now has two medals with the women’s road team still racing on Saturday.

Oranza, who’s riding out of the Philippine Navy-Standard Insurance team, drew support from Marcelo Felipe, Rench Michael Bondoc, former SEA Games champion Mark Lexer Galedo and Nichol Pareja—all from 7-Eleven Roadbike Philippines.

Oranza, Marcelo and Bondoc were in the 12-rider lead pack that endured for all six laps until the final lap when only Oranza was left to fight for a medal after Marcelo suffered a rear tire flat inside the final 1.5 kms. Jun Lomibao

My main concern now is to make sure the athletes’ transportation services are all doing well and making sure their everyday meals are given to them. So far, the host country hjas been assisting us and they are doing well in the operation,” added Loyzaga, the Philippine Amateur Baseball Association president.

Speaking of athletes’ meals, Loyzaga said delegation chef Bruce Lim is preparing an adobo meal for the athletes not billeted in the Athletes Village in the coming days.

“We will schedule the athletes to go to the village to taste how delicious chef Bruce’s adobo meal is,” he said, winking.

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Reign in women’s basketball ends

PHNOM PENH—Tha national team lost to Indonesia, 68-89, on Friday at the Morodok Techo Elephant Hall 2, dampening the country’s bid for a third straight women’s basketball gold medal in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games.

T he Gilas Pilipinas women had no answer to Indonesia’s attack in the third quarter where they trailed easily recovered from a 37-35 lead and wrest a 63-49 advantage at the end of period.

I ndonesia improved to 4-0 wonlost and needs to only beat bottom teams Singapore and Cambodia to capture the gold medal.

The tournament has a round-robin format with the first placer winning the gold medal outright.

The Gilas women dropped to third place with a 2-1 record behind Malaysia (3-1) with three games remaining against Vietnam on Saturday, Thailand on Sunday, and Malaysia on Monday.

It’s a hard loss,” Gilas women coach Pat Aquino said. “[Indonesia] is a tough team. They’ve been together for almost three years.”

I told them [Gilas] to never give up. We still have three more games,” he said. “We’ll never know what will happen.”

Yuni Anggraeni had 24 points, while Kimberley Pierre Louis had 20 points, 15 rebounds, and three blocks for Indonesia.

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