After Sonics’ Adrian Palacios capped his five points with a two-pointer in the second half, the Rollers were down by two points and had only 17 minutes to turn the game around.
Confronted by the Sonics’ tight defense, Jason Palacios dribbled down and saw Aurelio moving out at the left side of the court.
Aurelio backed off a little bit more and received the ball from Palacios, then fired to give the Rollers a one-point lead, leaving the Sonics only 11 minutes to take it back.
The Rollers’ defense went much stronger at this juncture and Sonics ran out of time to make the basket.
Ham Hambros and Pat Torres led the Rollers’ offense in the first half scoring 13 and 10 points respectively.
Aurelio tallied 12 points in the game.
Sonics 65, Rollers 50 (15U)
In the 15-and-under division, Nevin Salem, Bryl Alegre and John Darag scored six points apiece to hand the Sonics a 12-point lead towards the end of the first half.
Chriz Mizer sizzled with nine points in the second half to finish with a total of 14 points and Scott Escalada added six to have nine and the Sonics never looked back to beat the Rollers with 15 points.
Scores:
18U
Rollers 60 – H. Hambros 13, B. Aurelio 12, P. Torres 10, J. Palacios 9, E. Aughenbaugh 6, J. Danas 6, S. Talalemotu 3, Z. Tudela 1.
Sonics 57 – T. Ecalnea 18, J. Maratita 11, B. Ajoste 9, A. Palacios 5, L. Byun 4, JP Villanueva 4, J. Jung 2, M. Norita 2.
Haftime scores: 24-25, 6-57
15U
Sonics 65 – C. Mizer 14, J. Darag 10, S. Escalada 9, N. Salem 8, B. Alegre 6, J. Tudela 4, J. Aranda 2, L. San Nicolas 2, J. Villanueva 2.
Rollers 50 – S. Talalemotu 31, E. Dela Rosa 6, H. Cholyman 3, A. Limes 3, S. Escueta 2, M. Mancao 2.
Halftime scores: 35-23, 65-50
