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Cignal-San Beda stuns Racal for D-League crown

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/sports/04/06/hawkeyes-2017-040617.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">The Cignal-San Beda Hawkeyes celebrate after winning the 2017 PBA D-League Aspirants Cup. <cite>Photo courtesy of the PBA Media Bureau</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATED) The Cignal-San Beda Hawkeyes battled through a flat start and leaned on Javee Mocon down the stretch to defeat the Racal Tile Masters, 81-78, and rule the 2017 PBA D-League Aspirants Cup on Thursday at the Ynares Sports Arena.The Hawkeyes, composed of the core of NCAA powerhouse San Beda College, trailed by as much as 13 points in the first half but made huge plays down the stretch, with Mocon proving nearly unstoppable in the final five minutes of the game.Cignal-San Beda clinched the best-of-three series, 2-1, and gave head coach Boyet Fernandez his seventh D-League championship in eight tries.&quot;I still believe in our team work,&quot; Fernandez said after the game. &quot;If not for the boys, we&#x27;ll not make this one. We were down by eight at the end of the second quarter, but when they came into the dugout, they said: Coach, we&#x27;re not giving up.&quot;<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/news/2017/04/06/filoil-preseason-feature-teams-ncaa-uaap-24297">READ: Filoil Preseason to feature all teams in NCAA and UAAP</a></li></ul>Racal leaned on surprise contributions from Thomas Torres and Gwyne Capacio to surge to a 23-15 lead in the opening frame, which ballooned to 13, 42-29, after a Joseph Gabayni lay-up with two minutes left in the second quarter.Pamboy Raymundo helped the Hawkeyes trim the deficit to eight points heading into the halftime break. Cignal then proceeded to open the third quarter with six unanswered points to make it a one-possession game, 41-43.&quot;They started on fire in the third quarter, and that&#x27;s what really changed the tempo of the game,&quot; said Fernandez.Two charities by Jason Perkins tied the match at 54 with 3:06 to go, and his triple at the 1:29 mark of the third frame gave Cignal its first lead of the second half, 59-58. From that point on, it was a back-and-forth battle as the two squads traded buckets.Mocon, an incoming fourth year player for San Beda, took charge for the Hawkeyes in the payoff period. He scored 11 of their last 13 points, the last of which came on a baseline jumper off a Robert Bolick assist to give them a 79-74 lead with 2:41 to go.The Tile Masters, however, refused to back down. A Rey Nambatac lay-up cut the lead to three points, and after Perkins bricked what could have been the dagger triple, Jackson Corpuz knocked down two charities to make it a one-point game, 78-79, with still 36.3 seconds left.Perkins flubbed a lay-up in their last possession, but Bolick somehow came up with the loose ball. Racal&#x27;s Kent Salado was forced to foul with 4.4 seconds left, and Bolick coolly knocked down two insurance free throws to peg the final score.Racal had a chance to tie, but Rey Nambatac&#x27;s potential game-tying triple hit iron, and Corpuz&#x27;s follow-up from beyond the arc came too late.&quot;With the two years that I was out (of the D-League), I learned so many lessons, and when I came back, the lessons that I learned, I put in this line-up,&quot; said Fernandez, who had a stint as head coach of NLEX before returning to San Beda.&quot;I do thank them for accepting the system right away. Even though we lost our first game, they stuck to the system,&quot; he beamed.Mocon finished with a team-high 25 points, making 10 of his 18 attempts, on top of seven rebounds and two steals. Perkins scattered 21 points, keeping Cignal in the game in the early goings, and Bolick finished with 14 points and seven assists.Corpuz had 24 points on top of nine rebounds for Racal, but he was shut down in the final stretch of the game. Gabayni added 18 points, and Capacio finished with 12. Unfortunately for the Tile Masters, Nambatac and Salado combined for only 12 points on five-of-17 shooting from the field.<div>The scores:</div>CIGNAL 81 – Mocon 25, Perkins 21, Bolick 14, Raymundo 13, Batino 4, Villarias 2, Bringas 0, Potts 0, Arboleda 0, Oftana 0RACAL 77 – Corpuz 24, Gabayni 18, Capacio 12, Nambatac 8, Torres 8, Salado 4, Onwubere 2, Mangahas 2, Gabawan 0, Cabrera 0, Flores 0, Terso 0Quarter scores: 15-23, 35-43, 59-60, 81-78(For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN Sports website.</a>)

(UPDATED) The Cignal-San Beda Hawkeyes battled through a flat start and leaned on Javee Mocon down the stretch to defeat the Racal Tile Masters, 81-78, and rule the 2017 PBA D-League Aspirants Cup on Thursday at the Ynares Sports Arena.

(UPDATED) The Cignal-San Beda Hawkeyes battled through a flat start and leaned on Javee Mocon down the stretch to defeat the Racal Tile Masters, 81-78, and rule the 2017 PBA D-League Aspirants Cup on Thursday at the Ynares Sports Arena.

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Cignal-San Beda stuns Racal for D-League crown

Camille B. Naredo,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 06, 2017 06:23 PM PHT

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Updated April 06, 2017 08:59 PM PHT

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