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MANILA, Philippines — And after that there were four.
The Ultimate Four of the UAAP Season 87 men’s ball competition is set, with the Adamson Taking off Birds of Prey completing the cast after outlasting the College of the East Ruddy Warriors, 68-55, in their do-or-die war Wednesday at the Shopping center of Asia Field in Pasay City.
Adamson will in this way go against the protecting champions La Salle Green Toxophilites as the Ultimate Four begins this end of the week at the Savvy Araneta Coliseum.
Ced Manzano paced the Taking off Birds of Prey with 17 focuses, 10 bounce back and 4 helps to go with two pieces and two takes. Monty Montebon added 13 markers, six dimes, and three sheets as he took over within the last minutes.
Adamson was driven by as many as 15 focuses, 58-43, after back-to-back shots by Royce Mantua and Manzano.
UE, even though, attempted to storm back, cutting the lead to 10, 48-58, as Valuable Momowei, Jack Cruz-Dumont, and Rainer Maga joined up.
After misses by the Birds of prey, Montebon faked from the corner and drove right at Momowei, who hopped to piece a floater.
Momowei was called for his fifth foul and slammed difficult to the ground that he had to be stretchered out of the playing court.
Montebon made both free tosses and took this up with a floater to thrust the lead to 14, 62-58.
Cruz-Dumont attempted to start a run by UE, hitting a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 11, 51-62, with 1:
47 remaining.
Joshua Yerro, even though, replied with a triple of his claim for the blade, 65-51.
Cruz-Dumont countered with a trey and apart from the line by Devin Fikes made it a 10-point lead with 1:
02 remaining, 55-65, but Montebon dialed in from Rainbow Nation to put the icing on the cake.
“We’re thankful that two out of the three knockout diversions were able to progress. Sabi ko nga the other day, on the off chance that we ought to go through a playoff every year, we’ll go through it,” Adamson head coach Nash Racela said after the diversion.
“The excellence almost typically we truly gave ourselves a chance. The players, more particularly, did their portion getting here but we still have work to do.”
Cruz-Dumont drove UE in his last collegiate amusement with 15 focuses, four bounce back and four helps on 6-of-10 shooting.
Maga, Momowei, and John Decrease had 10 each.
The Red Warriors were driven by eight, 10-2, within to begin with a quarter, but Adamson unleashed an 18-0 run to seize the amusement by the horns, 20-10, at the beginning of the moment outlined.
A Cruz-Dumont jumper capped a 10-1 rush to create a one-point amusement, 20-21, but the Taking off Birds of Prey Fair kept on coming to keep their rivals at the cove.
UE had a few chances to make it to the semifinals, needing a fair one more win to create it to the Ultimate Four after a 6-3 win-loss record.
Be that as it may, they misplaced six straight, counting Wednesday’s playoff.
Adamson, in the meantime, won five of its final six diversions. At one point during the season, the San Marcelino-based squad was at 3-7, recently organizing an incensed rally into the semis.
