SBBL - Final Game 1 - Strong 2nd half powers Cheesecake past Showstoppers 110-95.
There they go, at least Cheesecake looked frustated at 1st half.
After made less effort to stop Xiong Jiayun at 1st half, Cheesecake brokethrough the 1st half 48-48 tie with a quick 10pt flurry run. SS shots seemed off and they let Cheesecake to lead them by 13 to the 4th quarter, then totally run out of gas and shots didn't fall, and Cheesecake nabbed the first win of the best of three series, 110-95.
Xiong Jiayun led six SS players with double figures with 19pts, Coutinho & Giuseppe scored 14. Noel Lima has 10pts and 12rebs, Pineda has 13pts 12rebs and 4asts. Cheesecake led by Vincent Katic with 24pts, Viktor Sramek & Peres 22, and Semifinal Hero Tumay Oztogar has huge game with 15pts and 19rebs. Tan Kim Wai has 14 come off the bench.
Game 2 will be at Showstopper Arena on Saturday 29 Oct 2011 6pm.
Meanwhile on relegation games, Xavis and Whampoa Allstar have to pack out from SBBL as they have lost their relegation match to Esplanade BC & Compassvale United, respectively. CPU beat Whampoa 118-100, survived 49pts by Konrad Krassowski. Wang Xiangjia led CPU with 28pts and 14rebs.
Esplanade BC have no problem to outlast Xavis, raced up the 2nd half for the 20pt lead and never threathened. Diego Zago led EBC with 33 pts.