Saint Benilde romps JRU short slate even

The Saint Benilde Blazers club on Tuesday night beat the unfortunate Jose Rizal University Heavy Bombers, 81-66, Tuesday afternoon, at the Filoil Flying V center in San Juan City.

"It's a matter of consistency, we were in full control until the third quarter, until Robert hit us with offensive trios." TY Tang recalled , second year head coach. "It was the morale of our team. Di pa sanay his grit and grind na game. That's what we really miss as a team. I hope we will fix every game. "

With the victory, the Blazers are now 2-2 in the standings while JRU dropped to a 0-5 slate.

Playing without General MJ dela Virgen, the Heavy Bombers have still managed to stay close to Blazers While there remains 4:23 in the game, JRU, a team that already needs hot bodies, has also lost Justin Padua after being hit with a qualifying foul.

Clement Leutcheu and the rest of the Blazers took advantage, zooming past the Heavy Bombers the rest of the way.CSB would advance up to 17 points after a step in favor of Luis Velasco.

Leutcheu had an effective outing with 20 points and 14 rebounds while Yankie Haruna added 15 markers.

Edward Dixon and Unique Naboa He also had 10 points and seven rebounds.

"We are a young team. We have not been together for a long time. Talking about consistency, I do not think we played with that today, we had a lot of unconstrained turnarounds we could not perform on our games, but it's still a win, " added Tang.

Jed Mendoza boosted JRU with 16 points, five rebounds, six assists and four steals, but was forced to make nine turnovers Mark Mallari added 14 markers

Saint Benilde at the # Intention to attack the Knights of Letran at their home on Thursday, August 2nd at Intramuros, JRU, on the other hand, will have a difficult task trying to stun the San Beda Red Lions on Tuesday, August 6.

The Scores:

CSB 81 – [19659013] Leutcheu 20, Haruna 15, Dixon 10, Naboa 10, Pagulayan 8, Carlos 5, Barnes 4, Pasturan 3, Domingo 2, Gutang 2, Velasco 2, Nayve 0, Young 0.