BACOLOD CITY. – Zamboanga Family’s Brand Sardines stayed unscathed as Bacolod Bingo Plus suffered another meltdown on Tuesday in the OKbet-MPBL (Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League) 4th Season presented by Xtreme here.
Trailing 65-71 with less than three minutes to go, Zamboanga blanked Bacolod the rest of the way while pouring nine points en route to a 74-71 victory at the full-house University of St. La Salle Gym.
It was the second straight win for Zamboanga in the MPBL’s “City of Smiles Invasion” and its eighth overall in the single round-robin elimination round of the 22-team tournament.
Bacolod, on the other hand, dropped two in a row, including its 74-81 triple overtime loss to Nueva Ecija in a game that started Monday and ended early Tuesday and tumbled to 5-4.
Nueva Ecija also stretched its winning streak to 10 with a 68-61 trouncing of Valenzuela in the opener.
