Friday 13th thriller in Gov’s Cup

Consolacion, San Francisco in KO match for North title

The Consolacion Sarok Weavers and San Francisco will settle their unfinished business once and for all when they slug it out in the deciding match of their best-of-three North Division finals in the Cebu Governor's Cup Inter-Cities and Municipalities Under-21 Developmental Basketball Tournament 2018 tonight at the Cebu Coliseum.

Game time is set at 7 another best-of-three series p.m., with the winner facing for the overall championship next South Division champs that goes along with a Talisay City Aquastars in P500,000 bounty.

GAME TODAY (CEBU COLISEUM) Game 3, North Finals

7:00 p.m. Consolacion vs San Francisco

Behind the explosive 33-point show of Kenny Rogers Rocacurva, the spirited islanders from Camotes drew first blood, 84-68, but Consolacion, buoyed by the wild cheers from home fans, kept its title retention bid alive with an 86-61 demolition of SanFran in Game 2 last Wednesday night.

In their 25-point rout of SanFran, Consolacion hancuffed Rocacurva to a measly 10 points.

Aside from shutting down the SanFran star, Consolacion also drew stellar performances from Emmanuel Villamor and Froilan Maglasang who connived for 45 big points in their series-tying victory.

After closing the first half with a 36-30 lead, Villamor unloaded 12 of his 25 points in a 22-14 run in the third period that padded Consolacion's lead to 14 points, 58-44.

The Sarok Weavers went on to finish SanFran with a 26-15 punch in the final stretch. —

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