TEPB OPP pick up second straight win

Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Monday, August 13, 2012

TEPB OPP picked up their second straight win in Group A of the Goh Hock Kee (GHK) Trophy Men's Basketball Tournament with a 66-56 victory over GS Café last night at the Tutong Chung Hwa Middle School Basketball court in Tutong.

Three players hit double figures for TEPB with Edwin Lee leading the way with a team-high of 17 points. The duo of Leslie Chia and Jong Guo Zhang added 12 and 10 points respectively in the victory.

On the other hand, Keegan Khoo had the game-high of 24 points to pace GS Café while Champ added 16 points to a losing cause.

The match was slow paced in the opening period and it was TEPB who were using their size advantage to score. They were getting the ball down low to Lee, who had eight points in the opening period, to open up a 17-11 lead going into the second quarter.

TEPB were rotating their bench and it allowed their opponents to come back. GS Café were running the break and were also getting their shots to fall to close the deficit to 27-26 at halftime.

TEPB would go back to their key players and were getting the ball into the paint. They were getting high percentage shots. Khoo kept GS Café in the game with 13 points in the period but his team trailed 52-45 entering the final quarter. Read More...

Source: The Brunei Times