{"id":134365,"date":"2017-11-27T03:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134365"},"modified":"2017-11-27T03:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:57:54","slug":"ateneo-guns-for-mens-finals-sweep-nu-ue-begin-womens-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/27\/ateneo-guns-for-mens-finals-sweep-nu-ue-begin-womens-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ateneo guns for men’s finals sweep; NU, UE begin women’s finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Blue Eagles look to finish off the De La Salle Green Archers in Game 2 of the UAAP men’s basketball finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Wednesday night. (Photo<\/a>: Ateneo Blue Eagles Men’s Basketball Team\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0— Ateneo fell just one win shy of an elimination round sweep.<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday night, the team has a chance to complete a finals sweep.<\/p>\n

The Blue Eagles look to finish off the De La Salle Green Archers in Game 2 of the UAAP men’s basketball finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Ateneo has a chance to complete a 2-0 sweep of the best-of-three championship series and dethrone La Salle as champion in the 4 p.m. tip-off.<\/p>\n

However, the Blue Eagles have to do it against the same team that deprived them of a 14-0 elimination sweep that could have given them an outright finals spot at the same arena where it happened.<\/p>\n

Ateneo took a hard-fought Game 1 win on Saturday night behind inspired games from the Nieto twins, and the team tries to hold off La Salle again in Game 2.<\/p>\n

La Salle, on the other hand, looks to leaning anew on Aljun Melecio’s hot scoring even as Ben Mbala looks to bouncing back from his worst scoring game of his UAAP career.<\/p>\n

In the first game at 11 a.m., NU and UE will begin their own best-of-three series for the women’s basketball crown.<\/p>\n

The Lady Bulldogs, who have never been beaten in their last 62 games overall, entered the finals outright after sweeping the elimination round anew.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, they completed the 14-0 regular season sweep against the Lady Warriors, who needed to exhaust their twice-to-beat advantage in the stepladder semifinals before eliminating the UST Tigresses for the other finals berth.<\/p>\n

However, UE may be four women down on Wednesday as Sai Larosa, Marieny Requiron, Erica Ebeza, and Princess Pedregosa were sent off following their role in a bench-clearing incident late into their rubber match on Saturday with the team comfortably ahead.<\/p>\n

UAAP rules have it that players who are ejected in the game will automatically be merited with a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n

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