Overcoming deficits as large as 10 points in the second half, the Videoland Hunters rallied with a tremendous fourth quarter to beat Taiwan Beer 89-85 on Saturday evening for their third straight win.
The battle between two of the unbeaten squads in the league began as the beer crew came out firing to lead the Hunters 26-22 after 10 minutes of play.
After a sloppy second quarter by both teams in which Taiwan Beer still outscored the Hunters for a comfortable 44-36 lead at the half, Jonathan Sanders of the Hunters decided to crank it up by swarming the offensive glass to give his team second chances.
And with Sanders' spark, the Hunters were able to pull within three of Taiwan Beer by the start of the fourth quarter before finally prevailing.
Superior three-point shooting by the Hunters (10-for-21 compared to Taiwan Beer's 13-for-31) along with outstanding rebounding (43-to-28) helped Videoland nail down the win.
Sanders and fellow shooting guard Yang Tseh-yi led the Hunters with 22 points each to account for nearly half of the team's total offense.
As for the brewers, top scorer Lin "the Beast" Chih-jeh and three-point threat Ho Sho-cheng scored 23 points each in a losing cause.
Bank of Taiwan 84, Eagles 81
Yueh Ying-li's three-point play with less than seven seconds remaining broke an 81-all tie for the bankers as they topped the Eagles 84-81 to stay perfect at 2-0.
Without their big center Jien Jia-hong, who was serving a four-game suspension for fighting in Friday night's contest against the Dacin Tigers, the Eagles played like they had something to prove in the first quarter and took a 12-point lead midway through the second quarter before the bankers answered with two scoring spurts to close out the first half with a 48-47 lead.
After an evenly matched third quarter where neither team seemed able to pull away, the Eagles mustered a 15-4 run to go up 79-68 with 3:30 left.
But the bankers' defense held them to only a pair of free throws after that before Yueh's late-game heroics delivered the victory.
Four different players scored in the double digits for each team, with the bankers' Yang Jing-min and the Eagles' Hong Chih-shan netting 19 points each.
Tigers 109, Antelopes 83
Wang Chih-chuin's career-high, 34-point effort paved the way for the Dacin Tigers as they thrashed the ETTV Antelopes 109-83 on Saturday afternoon for their second win in as many days.
The fourth-year point guard for Dacin slashed through a porous Antelopes defense at will with numerous drives to the hoop that resulted in baskets or free throws on shooting fouls.
His outstanding 9-for-15 shooting from the floor and 11-for-13 effort from behind the charity stripe were simply too much for the Antelopes.
Robinson Cano spent 17 seasons playing in the MLB in front of all kinds of baseball fans, but he said there is something special about his stint with the Mexican Baseball League’s Diablos Rojos. He is not alone. The league last week opened its 100th season, aiming to keep an impressive growth in attendance that began after the national team’s surprise run at the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and is already surpassing some first-division soccer clubs. After finishing third in the 2023 tournament, many casual fans, some of them soccer enthusiasts disappointed after Mexico were eliminated in the first round in the 2022
Noelvi Marte on Sunday had seven RBIs and hit his first career grand slam with a drive off infielder Jorge Mateo, while Austin Wynn had a career-high six RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds scored their most runs in 26 years in a 24-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles. Marte finished with five hits, including his eighth-inning homer off Mateo. Wynn hit a three-run homer in the ninth off catcher Gary Sanchez. Cincinnati scored its most runs since a 24-12 win against the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999, and finished with 25 hits. Baltimore allowed its most runs since a 30-3 loss to
Arne Slot has denied that Darwin Nunez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff. The Liverpool head coach on Sunday last week said that Nunez was absent from the 2-1 victory at Anfield, having felt unwell during training the day before, although the striker sat behind the substitutes throughout the game. Speculation has been rife that the Uruguay international, whom Slot criticized for his work rate against Wolves and Aston Villa in February, was left out for disciplinary reasons. Asked on Friday to clarify the situation, Slot said: “He
In-form teenager Mirra Andreeva on Thursday crashed out of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, after going down in straight sets to fellow Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova in the last 16. World No. 7 Andreeva, who already has two titles under her belt this season, lost 6-3, 6-2 against the 22nd-ranked Alexandrova in just over an hour. The 17-year-old Andreeva had defeated her elder sister Erika in the previous round on Wednesday, but Alexandrova quickly took control as she claimed her fourth win over a top-10 player this season. The 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva in February became the youngest winner of a WTA
RSS