By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

Defending champion Peched leaned on the endgame heroics of co-team captain Weston Ketebengang to score a 74-72 victory over Meda last night in the 2007 NBL Season Playoffs.
Ketebengang finished the game with 17 points as he scored all of his nine points in the fourth quarter from three-point range, including the winning shot that gave the Division I champion a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three semifinal series.
Game Two is set at 8 p.m. tomorrow night.
Also last night, Ngermid Rivals and Surangel Suns were still playing as of presstime in the other best-of-three semifinal game.
Before the winning shot, Edson Chiokai gave Meda a 72-71 advantage as he split his two foul shots but Ketebengang rescued Peched with a wide-open triple from the right side with just over a minute left in the game.
Both teams failed to score after that play.
Peched too an 26-22 lead in the first quarter but the game was tied at 39-all in the second and 53-all in the third.
Team captain Sunshine Soalablai led Peched players with double digit scores by finishing with 19, Weston 17, Joe Joe Roberts 13, Calson dulei 11 and Russ 10.
Reigning MVP Lyndon Ngiramolau led Meda with 29 whiled Clint Mersai added 20.