{"id":216069,"date":"2019-05-26T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=216069"},"modified":"2019-05-26T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:01:20","slug":"after-loss-against-australia-gilas-womens-3x3-bows-out-of-fiba-3x3-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/26\/after-loss-against-australia-gilas-womens-3x3-bows-out-of-fiba-3x3-asia-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"After loss against Australia, Gilas women\u2019s 3×3 bows out of FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“A valiant stand by our #GilasPilipinas Women\u2019s 3×3 Team #ParaSaBayan at the 2019 FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup. The country appreciates your effort!” (Photo<\/a>: Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas – SBP<\/a>\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Team Philippines for FIBA\u2019s 3×3 Asia Cup women\u2019s division is officially out of the running to advance to the next round in Doha, Qatar, after losing at 21-16 to Australia during the quarterfinals in Changsha, China last Sunday, May 26.<\/span><\/p>\n

Veteran Alice Kunek denied the Philippines’ entry into the semis after firing past the Filipinas\u2019 opening 4-1 lead, finishing with a total of 13 points, including a crucial two-pointer during the last 1:31 of the game. Clare Castro fought back and cut their opponents\u2019 lead, 16-15, but Kunek was also aided by teammate Rebecca Cole who contributed four points. Australians Meadeleine Gerrick and Hanna Zavecz individually chipped two for last year\u2019s overall third-placers. Besides Castro fighting hard during the crucial minutes of the game, Janine Pontejos was the highest-scorer for the Patrick Aquino-led squad at eight points. Afril Bernardo contributed five, while Jack Animam scored two.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the match, head coach Aquino noted that he is \u201cstill so proud of this team,\u201d stating, \u201cWe have very limited experience in 3×3 and I don’t think a lot of people expected us to be here. The girls showed that they were not just happy to be in the quarterfinals because they gave Australia a really good fight.” Pontejos also added,<\/span> \u201cOur experience in the World Cup really helped us out because we learned from our opponents and we were able to use that knowledge here,\u201d while graduating National University (NU) Lady Bulldog Animam chipped, \u201cI hope our performance gets us more opportunities to compete in other 3×3 competitions. I think we showed that we could compete against any team even with our limited experience so we can do even better if in the future.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In total, the Gilas Filipinas 3×3 women\u2019s team defeated Vanuatu, Sri Lanka, and Samoa, the Samoa victory holding the record for largest winning margin as the Filipinas dominated, 21-1. However, in addition to their loss to Australia, they also struggled 8-20 against Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Philippines for FIBA\u2019s 3×3 Asia Cup women\u2019s division is officially out of the running to advance to the next …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":216070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216069","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=216069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216133,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216069\/revisions\/216133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}