{"id":33841,"date":"2014-12-05T01:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33841"},"modified":"2014-12-05T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:38:04","slug":"pacquiaos-kia-team-gets-axe-in-pba-philippine-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/05\/pacquiaos-kia-team-gets-axe-in-pba-philippine-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao\u2019s Kia team gets axe in PBA Philippine Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aside from being a champion boxer, businessman, and congressman, Manny Pacquiao is also a playing coach for rookie team KIA Sorento in PBA’s 40th season. (Photo courtesy of KIA Sorento Basketball Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Manny Pacquiao suited up for Kia but it\u2019s not enough to fire up the Sorento as they bowed to Meralco, 93-99, on Wednesday night and ended their bid for next round of the PBA Philippine Cup at the Araneta Coliseum.<\/p>\n

Jared Dillinger notched 25 points and seven rebounds for the Bolts who improved their win-loss record to 5-5 and tied with idle Global Port and Purefoods in the 7th place.<\/p>\n

The Sorento put up gallant fight in the second half as they moved from 22-point deficit to just one point, 72-73 but could not sustain the rally.<\/p>\n

With their 9th loss in 10 games, the Sorento lost a chance to face NLEX in a playoff for the last ticket in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The Sorento joined fellow expansion team Blackwater Elite, which remains winless in 10 games, for an early vacation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Talk \u2018N Text defeated Purefoods Star in overtime, 100-96, for their seventh win in 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ranidel de Ocampo finished with a team-high 18 points while Larry Fonacier scored a floater with 0.6 seconds to go in the regulation period to force an overtime at 88-all.<\/p>\n

Marc Pingris had 21 points and 12 rebounds to pace the Hotshots, who absorbed their second setback in a row and fifth overall.<\/p>\n

The scores (first game):<\/p>\n

Meralco 99 — Dillinger 25, Hodge 17, Anthony 14, Wilson 11, David 10, Macapagal 8, Morrison 4, Cortez 3, Ferriols 3, Ildefonso 2, Sena 2, Buenafe 0, Guevarra 0.<\/p>\n

Kia 93 — Cervantes 18, Poligrates 11, Revilla 10, Bagatsing 10, Thiele 9, Alvarez 8, Pascual 8, Dehesa 7, Custodio 6, Webb 4, Burtscher 3, Pacquiao 0, Buensuceso 0.<\/p>\n

Quarters: 34-19; 60-39; 73-72; 99-93.<\/p>\n

The scores (second game):<\/p>\n

Talk N Text 100 — Washington 18, De Ocampo 18, Reyes 14, Castro 13, Carey 9, Alas 8, Rob Reyes 8, Alapag 5, Fonacier 4, Rosser 3, Aban 0.<\/p>\n

Purefoods 96 — Devance 22, Pingris 21, Yap 18, Simon 15, Barroca 11, Mallari 5, Taha 2, Maliksi 2, Reavis 0.<\/p>\n

Quarters: 22-22; 39-42; 67-64; 88-88; 100-96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Manny Pacquiao suited up for Kia but it\u2019s not enough to fire up the Sorento as they bowed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}