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UAAP 82: Fighting Maroons eye outright finals berth
vs Growling Tigers
ABS-CBN News
University of the Philippines
tries to return to the UAAP
men's basketball title series when it
takes on University of Santo Tomas
in their Season 82 stepladder semifinal
at
Araneta
Coliseum
on Sunday.
Tip-off is
at 4 p.m.
A s
the No. 2
seed, the
Fighting
Maro ons
n e e d
to beat
the Growling Tigers just once
to arrange a finals duel with defending
champion Ateneo.
But against UST, UP has struggled
to come away with a win.
Coach Bo Perasol and his
crew finished the elimination
round with a 9-5 record, but
they lost both games to UST.
The Growling Tigers
routed UP 85-69 in the first
round, and were again winners,
84-78, in their rematch.
For UST coach Aldin Ayo, however,
his team's success against the
Fighting Maroons won't have any
bearing from this point onward.
"Some of you will say that
we are 2-0 against UP, but they are a
different team right now," Ayo said.
"'Yung mga nangyari doon sa
elimination, it won't matter anymore
because they're a different team."
This will be the third time
the two schools will face each other
this season, but the first time
both of them are in full strength.
Kobe Paras was out in the
initial meeting because he was rehabilitating
a sprained ankle at the
time, while Rhenz Abando was
benched
in the
October
game.
While
UP is
c o m -
ing off a
10-day
b r e a k ,
t h e
Growling
Tigers are only 4 days removed
from a strong performance
against Far Eastern University,
a game in which they started off
hot, cooled down, before developing
nerves of steel to down the
third-seeded Tamaraws 81-71.
The result paved the
way for UST to advance.
UP, meanwhile, hopes the
extended layoff helps the Season
81 runners-up to figure out
how to solve the Growling Tigers.
The Fighting Maroons' last
game wasn't pretty, an 86-64 loss
to Ateneo that gave the Blue Eagles
a 14-0 finish to the preliminaries.
Perasol searches for positives
after another massive loss to Ateneo
"Well, I don't want to make excuses
about it. The point is, we really
got outplayed," Perasol said.
"Ateneo kasi is a cut above the
rest. We cannot compare ourselves
with them as of right now."
UST will rely on league MVP
Soulemane Chabi Yo and Rookie
of the Year Mark Nonoy,
along with a feisty group that
includes Abando, CJ Cansino,
Brent Paraiso and Renzo Subido.
Meanwhile, UP boasts a
star-studded roster that includes
Paras, Ricci Rivero, Juan Gomez
di Liaño and Bright Akhuetie.
"We have to honor our position
(as the No. 2 seed) by preparing
really hard," Perasol said.
"Because, while it is true na nandyan
kami sa position na yan, it's not a sure
thing that we're going to the finals."
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Huge Hong Kong rally after student dies and lawmakers
arrested
People pay tribute with flowers to Chow Tsz-lok,
22, a university student who fell during protests at
the weekend and died early on Friday morning, at
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
in Hong Kong, China
November 8, 2019.
Tyrone Siu, Reuters
HONG KONG - Tens
of thousands of Hong
Kongers packed
into a park Saturday
night to mourn
a student who died
during recent clashes
as police arrested
a group of pro-democracy
lawmakers,
deepening the
city's political crisis.
The international finance hub has been upended
by five months of huge and increasingly violent
pro-democracy protests, but Beijing has refused
to give in to most of the movement's demands.
Tensions have soared since the death on Friday
of Alex Chow, 22, who succumbed to head injuries
sustained during a fall as police skirmished
with demonstrators inside a car park last weekend.
The huge rally -- one of the few in recent months to obtain
police approval -- means Hong Kong has witnessed
24 weekends of protest in what has become the most profound
challenge to Beijing's rule since the 1997 handover.
Many at the peaceful and somber rally wore black.
"I want an independent inquiry because that
proves Hong Kong is still a place with rule of
law," a 35-year-old woman, who gave her surname
Wong, told AFP, echoing the movement's
core demand for an investigation into police tactics.
Wong, who said she moved to Hong Kong from the
mainland three years ago, said she also wanted to see
less confrontational tactics from hardcore protesters.
"I think non-violent ways can also win," she said.
Lawmaker
arrests
The rally came after police brought charges
against at least seven lawmakers who
now face up to a year in jail if convicted.
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Three were arrested overnight, three attended
appointments on Saturday evening
to be booked, and one refused to appear.
The charges relate to chaotic scenes that broke out
within a legislative committee
in May as pro-democracy
lawmakers tried
to stop a controversial bill
being discussed that would
allow extraditions to authoritarian
mainland China.
At the time, city leader Carrie
Lam was fast-tracking
the bill through the legislature,
a move that ignited record-breaking
street protests
in which millions marched.
"The protests that have
been going on for five months are yet to finish but
the government is already launching massive arrests
of pro-democracy legislators in collaboration with
the police," the lawmakers said in a joint statement.
Hong Kong's legislature is quasi-democratic, with
half the seats popularly elected and the rest chosen
by largely pro-Beijing committees, ensuring the
chamber remains stacked with government loyalists.
Opposition to the government comes in the
form of a small band of pro-democracy lawmakers
who win their seats in local elections.
The lack of fully free elections -- and especially
the fact that the city's leader is appointed by a
pro-Beijing committee -- has fuelled years of protests
that have culminated in the latest unrest.
Chow's death has only intensified the tinderbox atmosphere
in what has become a deeply polarised city, with
violence escalating on both sides of the ideological divide.
Although the precise chain of events leading to
his fall is unclear and disputed, protesters have
made alleged police brutality one of their movement's
rallying cries and have seized on the death.
Police have repeatedly denied any allegations
of wrongdoing in relation to Chow's death.
Vigils on Friday night saw large crowds and frequent
clashes with police in multiple neighborhoods,
including one officer firing a live warning shot.
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Upcoming local elections
The city is holding district council elections on 24 November with the pro-Beijing camp bracing for heavy defeats.
Since this summer's pro-democracy protests kicked off, voter registration has soared and
the pro-democracy camp is fielding candidates in every constituency for the first time.
But there are also concerns the elections could be called off given the spiraling violence.
On Wednesday, one of the city's most stridently pro-Beijing politicians
was wounded in a knife attack by a man who pretended to be a supporter.
That assault came three days after a Mandarin-speaking man shouting pro-Beijing slogans
knifed at least three pro-democracy protesters and bit off the ear of a local district councilor.
Pro-democracy lawmakers called for demonstrators not to give the government
an excuse to cancel the elections because of the violence.
"The district council election is a de facto referendum, in which all Hong Kong people can respond to the social problems,
the unjust governance and the police brutality triggered by the extradition bill," lawmaker Tanya Chan said on Saturday.
But further unrest seems likely given that the protest movement is largely organized online by activists who favor confrontations
with the police who are themselves responding with increasingly hardcore tactics as each month passes.
Activists have vowed to hit the streets again on Sunday and hold a general strike on Monday.
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