Opening Ceremony: 1st Kiarong Cup 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament

December 2, 2009

Endowed with a pleasant weather last night, the opening of the 1^st Kiarong cup 3-on-3 Basketball tournament finally was held. As the teams and the organizers blissfully opens the tournament, the atmosphere was filled with excitement and fun. Mr. Ricardo “Rickret Realret formally opened the tournament with the regular ceremonial toss.

TURISTAS and D’ CAFÉ

First two team winners in 3 on 3 Kiarong Cup Opening Day

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Black Team, “Turistas”, easily wiped out the White Team, “Pioneers”, 82-70. From a huge lead of 17 pts of the Turistas during the first half, as the second half continues, Pioneers cannot seemed to connect its defense as Alex of Turistas kept on attacking them with his inside penetrations finishing and lifting his team with 32pts and Henry Sta. Isabel with 26pts. Despite the efforts of Cesar Olgado’s 27pts and Exequiel Lachica’s 23pts of the Pioneers, they failed to give their team their first win.

Red Team “D’ Café” won last night over the Yellow Team “Veterans”, with only 1 pt. Starting from the first half, both teams didn’t appear to detach theirs scores finishing the half with the score of 31-30 in favor of the Veterans. Continuing their efforts in the second half, the veterans pulled out a 9 pt lead in the middle. But Alex Barawed of D Café surprisingly bombarded two consecutive three pointers putting up his team trailing only by 3pts.

As the time narrowed down to 3 minutes, Rj Buenaventura of the D’ Café consistently gave his team tremendous rebounds against Bert Buri of the Veterans, converting that into a 6 pts succession putting his team on top by a three point lead. With both teams consistently connecting points every possession, as the last minute approaches D’ Café hit a big 2 pts by Ryan Wyclef making the score 70-65. From a 5pt lead, it was narrowed down to 4 pts from a one free throw converted by Joel Sarmiento. 

With less than 40 seconds remaining with D Café on possession, a huge interception was made by Bert Buri and straight away passed it to Joel Sarmiento to convert that into a foul-counted play beyond the arc against Alex Barawed, making up the score 70-69 with 28 seconds left on the clock. Unfortunately bonus shot was missed and D Café regained possession. But with the Veterans tight defense, D Café failed to take a shot and committed a 24 seconds violation. Despite of the 4 seconds remaining on the clock, Veterans failed to make a shot giving the D Café team their first win. Alex Barawed of the D’ Café delivered 31 pts followed by Rj Buenaventura with 19pts while on the other side Bert Buri pulled up 28 pts followed by Joel Sarmiento with 25 pts.

Kiarong Tuesday Club (KTC) Commissioner, Rex Arvin M. Villanueva told that this event will not be possible if not with the help of each and everyone involved in this tournament. From the Chinese neighbors who supported this project especially Andrew Jong and Keane, Malay and Bruneian friends of KTC, Mahadi and his brother Moque. Also from the support of the FBA headed by Mr. Mario Porlahe and Mr. Ricardo Realret. Not to forget Madam Lina of the Queenielin Enterprise who made all the uniforms of all the Teams and Committees. To God be the Glory.

Source and photos: Rex Villanueva

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