Smart Gilas Pilipinas rips Singapore, moves on to the finals

JAKARTA—Smart Gilas Pilipinas went on to complete a three-game sweep of the eliminations with a 106-51 romp over Singapore in the 9th Southeast Asian Basketball Association Championship at the BritAma Arena Saturday night.

Chris Tiu, Mark Barroca and Chris Lutz combined in a 16-0 start by the Nationals, who treated the game  against the winless Singaporeans as a virtual warmup for their title date today against the winner of the Indonesia-Malaysia game, which was still going on at press time.

Indonesia and Malaysia had earlier secured the two other seats to the Asian championship in Wuhan, China, on Sept. 15-25 after beating Singapore.

“The game plan was to stop their penetrations and play more aggressive than we did against Malaysia,” said Smart Gilas coach Rajko Toroman.  “It was a success. We played a great game.”

The scores:

SMART GILAS  106—Barroca 18, Aguilar 18, Baracael 17, Ababou 14, Tiu 11, Lutz 11, Douthit 8, Casio 5, Ballesteros 4.
SINGAPORE 51—Wong 20, Lim 10, Goh 6, Oh 4, Koh 4, Ng 3, Khoo 2, Fok 2, Wu 0.
Quarters: 30-9, 60-23, 77-43, 106-51