{"id":152400,"date":"2018-02-12T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152400"},"modified":"2018-02-12T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:58:42","slug":"lyceum-subdues-ateneo-to-sweep-pccl-elite-8-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/12\/lyceum-subdues-ateneo-to-sweep-pccl-elite-8-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyceum subdues Ateneo to sweep PCCL Elite 8 assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131670\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/basketball-2099656_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131670\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/basketball-2099656_640.jpg\" alt=\"Assuming the 43rd season will begin as scheduled on Dec. 17 as what outgoing PBA board chairman Mikee Romero vowed last week, a clash between San Miguel and Phoenix will take place on that day.(Pixabay photo)\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/basketball-2099656_640.jpg 457w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/basketball-2099656_640-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Perez and Mike Nzeusseu each tallied 19 marketsrs (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Lyceum secured the other top seed in the PCCL Final 4 after nosing Ateneo, 69-65, in the final game of the Elite 8 round at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates got their bearings working in the payoff period as they go on to sweep their own assignments in the national quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In a hotly-contested match that was close for most of the game, Lyceum broke loose at the death as the team made a decisive 7-0 run to turn a 60-62 deficit to a 67-62 lead with 19 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Wong still made things interesting as he drained a triple with nine seconds left that cut the lead to two, 67-65, but Jaycee Marcelino sealed the victory for Lyceum as he made two charities with six seconds to go as Ateneo could not buy a basket in the end.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Perez and Mike Nzeusseu each tallied 19 markers as the latter came close to a 20-20 with 21 rebounds for the Pirates, who will face the San Sebastian Golden Stags in the Final Four at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City.<\/p>\n<p>Wong finished with 10 markers for the Blue Eagles, who will take on the San Beda Red\u00a0Lions in the other semifinal pairing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Lyceum secured the other top seed in the PCCL Final 4 after nosing Ateneo, 69-65, in the final game &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4254,46437,46438,33723,46436,12181,46439],"class_list":["post-152400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ateneo","tag-elite-8","tag-filoil","tag-lyceum","tag-pccl-final-4","tag-pirates","tag-sand-beda","mauthors-by-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}