A 95-62 Victory for the SSC-R Golden Stags... We're the Best! BRAVO!

[FrEaXioN]

The Recto-based San Sebastian College-Recoletos de Manila Golden Stags are the 77th National Collegiate Athletics Association Season Seniors Basketball Champions!

It's a 95-62 won for the Golden Stags. Definitely a record-breaking dominance in the whole NCAA history... The highest Game 3 performance of any team that won the championship crown!

I salute you Golden Stags!

The Crown and Glory is within ourselves once again!

Start of a new dynasty.

Goodluck on the incoming seasons Golden Stags!


Bravo Red and Gold!:cool:
Bravo Baste!!!:rolleyes:

[polgas_007]

In the end, the San Sebastian Stags turned the whole affair into one big mismatch.

The Stags, burning with desire all game long, reduced the drought-ending dreams of the Jose Rizal Bombers to flames with a suffocating second-half defense to romp off with an anticlimactic 95-62 victory in Game Three of the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball finals and reclaim the trophy they last won in 1997.

The Stags turned the entire oven-hot Rizal Memorial Coliseum into their own playground and littered the basketball court with one highlight reel after the other, using a stifling defense to fuel the Stag party.

"Defense is still the name of the game," said mentor Arturo Valenzona, college basketball's version of the Maestro, who was named the Coach of the Year amid the deluge of confetti, the frenzied champagne-popping and the chest-thumping that took place minutes after the final buzzer signaled the end of the 77th championship series of the country's oldest collegiate league.

The last time the game took on a championship feel was in the first quarter, when it was last tied at 16. After that, the San Sebastian shook off Jose Rizal, shutting the Bombers out from even their famed perimeter game to trigger the rout and turn the game into a free-wheeling scrimmage.

Christian Coronel kept the Stags in control under his leadership, before Mark Macapagal provided the killer blows in a third- quarter run that widened a nine-point lead to 58-42.

And for Jose Rizal, the agonizing wait to end a title drought will be stretched for yet another year. Maybe even years, considering the number of key players who will make a not-so-graceful exit from the Bombers' roster.

Count them: Most Valuable Player Ernani Epondulan. Gunner Ariel Capus. Playmaker John Dale Valena. None of them will be around for Jose Rizal's bid to end a title drought that started since the 1972 season, when basketball great Philip Cezar led the Mandaluyong-based school to the title.

They had their chance Tuesday, even after the Stags erected what seemed like an insurmountable 60-44 lead going into the final quarter. There were still 10 minutes of basketball to be played and anything could still have happened.

But it was San Sebastian which turned on the heat. Aided by the frost-bitten shooting touch of Jose Rizal, which missed its first 16 attempts from beyond the arc, the Stags bottled up the Bombers and limited them to a single field goal in the first five minutes of the final period to take a whopping 77-46 lead.

By the time Joel Villarin made a lay-up off another Jose Rizal miss from beyond the arc, it was too late. The Stags even added to the lead, scoring eight straight points after that to make it 85-48, the game's biggest lead, going into the final two minutes.

"Determination is greater than experience," said Valenzona. "The players showed that they really wanted to win."

No other player showed a will greater than Coronel, one of the few veterans on the youth-laden Stags squad that showed the potential to equal the school's feat of five straight titles, which was fashioned out during the Rommel Adducul era, lasting from 1993 to 1997.

Coronel was named Most Outstanding Player of the Finals.

Bombers' coach Boy de Vera was a symbol of defeat in the second half, his shoulder sagged and his head bowed several times as he failed to bring the title to Jose Rizal territory anew.

[nobodys_girl]

wwwhhhhhoooooooooo!!! i love my school!!! grabe! sobrang galing talaga ng baste players. i'm still overwhelmed uo to now :D obvious ba? basta, congratulations to all of the SEBASTINIANS! :)


:) B R A V O S E B A S T I N O :)