The San Miguel Beermen cruised to a 70-55 victory over the Indonesia Warriors to complete a three-game sweep of the defending champions and win their first-ever ASEAN Basketball League championship.
League Most Valuable Player Asi Taulava led San Miguel with 19 points while Chris Banchero and Leo Avenido added 10 apiece.
San Miguel won the opener, 75-70, behind a 22-point, 10-rebound performance from Taulava then eked out a tight Game Two win, 66-65, on a game-winner from import Brian Williams.
The Beermen led by just four points, 35-31, in the third quarter but Paolo Hubalde keyed a big sequence with a layup, a steal and an assist on an Avenido three-pointer that gave his team a nine-point lead.
Taulava would later give the Beermen a double-digit lead that they would push to as much as 17 points in the fourth quarter.
San Miguel had contributions from up and down the roster with Val Acuna scoring nine points and reinforcements Justin Williams and Brian Williams adding seven and six points, respectively. Jeric Fortuna, Hubalde and Eric Menk all scored as well.
Mario Wuysang topscored with 21 points for Indonesia. Chris Daniels added 15 while Filipino-American guard Stanley Pringle added 11 but the Warriors only had five players in the scoring column.
The championship capped a dominant campaign for the Beermen, who won 16 consecutive games at one point in the season.
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