San Juan bucked a late uprising posted by MisOr before preserving a tense 84-77 win late Monday night in the PSL President’s Cup at the Filoil-EcoOil Centre.
Orlan Wamar bailed out the Kings from the jaws of defeat, as he hit a backbreaking triple that hit the window before going in and put the Kings up front, 81-75, with still 1:26 left in the match.
The shifty guard capped his heroics by setting up Zach Huang for another trey and brought the curtains down on the hard-fighting Mustangs.
By winning their 15th win in 17 games, the Kings fortified their hold on solo third spot.
MisOr dropped to 10th spot with an 8-8 win-loss record.
San Juan squandered a 14-point lead posted midway the third period as the Mustangs kept on coming back.
Despite missing the services of ace point guard Rudy Lingganay, the Mustangs were able to tie the game courtesy of Reynel Hugnatan’s basket in the 3:12 mark of the final quarter before Wamar, Huang and Michael Calisaan out away their rivals for good with timely baskets down the stretch.
Calisaan posted yet another double-double performance with 13 points and 11 boards while Dexter Maiquez presided on the team’s offense with 16 markers.
Earlier, SGA-College of St. Benilde survived a hard-fighting JT Bulacan, 70-66, while NKT broke out f the win column and dumped Bicol, 98-81.