Taiwan Beer made it two wins in a row as they downed the Dacin Tigers 69-54 at the Sinjhuang Sports Complex in New Taipei City late yesterday afternoon to move within a half-game of the second-place Tigers as the two teams look to secure a spot in the upcoming postseason.
Yang “Amis Warrior” Jing-min teamed up with fellow center Kibwe Trim of Trinidad for 35 points, accounting for more than half of the Brew Crew’s total offensive production. Their performance was highlighted by a great third quarter in which the dynamic duo roughed up the Big Cats by scoring 15 of their team’s 24 points, while holding Dacin to a miserly dozen points for the entire quarter.
The 24-12 run in the third was more than the Tigers could handle as the Brew Crew remained strong in the fourth quarter and held on to defeat their archrivals by a large margin.
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The loss by the Big Cats ended a three-game winning streak, but they will look to finish the week off strong with a relatively easy game on deck against last-place Bank of Taiwan this afternoon.
KINMEN KAOLIANG 80, LEOPARDS 76
Nearly blowing a seven-point lead with less than a minute remaining in the contest, Kinmen Kaoliang held off a tenacious rally by the Taiwan Mobile Cloud Leopards to garner a four-point victory in the early game in Sinjhuang yesterday afternoon.
A pair of three-pointers by Su Yi-jeh in the closing moments helped bring the Leopards within two points of the Distillers.
However, with the game on the line, the Leopards failed to convert on their final possession as Chang Yu-lin’s driving finger roll that would have tied the game bounced off the rim to deny the Leopards a chance to send the match into overtime.
“This is the kind of game that we need to win if we are to have a chance at the postseason,” a very disappointed Leopards coach Chia Fan said after the game.
His troops would have pulled off the impossible if it had not been for Chang’s misfire and a careless turnover by Deng An-cheng that possibly cost his team the win.
PURE YOUTH 78, BANK OF TAIWAN 68
Top-ranked Pure Youth Construction celebrated the return of forward James Mao and center Chien Jia-hong with a 10-point win over lowly Bank of Taiwan in the late game yesterday in Sinjhuang to up their current winning streak to three straight.
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