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ABL: Alab downs Thailand’s Mono Vampire to open title series

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Dominic Menor, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/04/22/alab.jpg"/><figcaption>Alab Pilipinas celebrates in Game 1 of the ABL finals against Mono Vampire. Richard Esguerra, <a href="https://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/photos">ABS-CBN Sports</a></figcaption></figure></div>SANTA ROSA, Laguna — (UPDATE 3) San Miguel Alab Pilipinas head coach Jimmy Alapag knows the 2 guys he wants holding the ball when it comes to pressure-packed situations.As always, Justin Brownlee and Renaldo Balkman delivered for their team.Their late-game heroics never get old, and the beloved American reinforcements got the ASEAN Basketball League finals off to a thrilling, heart-stopping start.Brownlee scored 46 points, while Balkman added 39 and Alab Piipinas defeated Mono Vampire, 143-130, in overtime to take Game 1 of the title series in dramatic fashion at Santa Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex here on Sunday.Game 2 returns at the same venue on Wednesday.Their team given up for dead, Balkman and Brownlee breathed life -- or more like applied a defibrillator -- into Alab late in the fourth quarter to send the game to an extra 5 minutes. With Alab trailing, 120-116, with 19.3 seconds left in regulation, Brownlee buried a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to one.After a split from the line by Mike Singletary to make it 121-119, Mono&#x27;s 7-foot-4 center Sam Deguara fouled Brownlee, who missed the first free throw and intentionally clanked the second hoping to get a basket back.Brownlee grabbed his own miss, but couldn&#x27;t get his follow-up to drop. Balkman was there though for the putback and equalizer.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/news/2018/04/22/pba-king-rewrites-personal-pro-history-explosive-game-40671">PBA: King rewrites personal pro history in one explosive outing</a></li></ul>With two of its starters out of the game at that point -- Deguara who fouled out and US-raised Filipino playmaker Jason Brickman to leg cramps -- Mono was ripe for the picking in the extension, as Alab scored 8 straight baskets to put away the visitors for good.&quot;In all my years being involved in professional basketball, I have never seen, never been a part of a game like what you guys saw tonight,&quot; Alab coach Jimmy Alapag said.&quot;I told my guys I was amazed with the offensive show we put on, scoring 143 points in a 45-minute game.&quot;But the other side of that was I definitely wasn&#x27;t happy about giving up 130 points to Mono.&quot;Ray Parks Jr. added 27 points and three 3-pointers for Alab before fouling out.Brownlee contributed 11 rebounds and 9 assists playing nearly the entire game, while Balkman chipped in 15 rebounds for the full 45 minutes.&quot;It was a Hercules type effort from this guy here (pointing to Brownlee) and Balk and even Ray before he fouled out,&quot; Alapag said.Deguara, who was almost unstoppable in the the paint, finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds.Mono&#x27;s Filipino back court of University of the East alumnus Paul Zamar finished with 25 points and four 3-pointers, and Brickman added 15 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds before leaving the game less than three minutes to go in the fourth quarter because of cramps.<div>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</div>

(UPDATE 3) San Miguel Alab Pilipinas defeated Thailand club Mono Vampire, 143-130, at Sta. Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex here on Sunday to win Game 1 of their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) championship series.

(UPDATE 3) San Miguel Alab Pilipinas defeated Thailand club Mono Vampire, 143-130, at Sta. Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex here on Sunday to win Game 1 of their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) championship series.

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ABL: Alab downs Thailand’s Mono Vampire to open title series

Dominic Menor,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 22, 2018 10:35 PM PHT

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Updated April 23, 2018 01:48 AM PHT

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