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By Robert Balajadia

’06’s Julius Yu flies past the defense for two of his 18 points. (photo by Jesse Castro)

2006 – 72, 2007 – 61

The Class of 2006 finished pool play in the FD Alumni Tournament undefeated as they got past a hot start from 2007.  Julius Yu led ’06 with 18 points while Jude Martinez finished with 24 points and teammate Brandon Duenas had 20.

’07 managed to get a 15-6 lead on ’06 in the first-half off a three pointer from Duenas, but ’06 quickly put an end to that run by responding with an 11-2 run to retake the lead 21-20.  Yu made two driving layups in the final minute of the first half and capped it off with a fall away three-pointer to stretch the lead 37-28.

’06 went with a different line up in the second half that allowed ’07 to get as close as two points, 37-35 on a shot by Josh Manglona.  Gus Untalan gave ’06 the spark off the bench by hitting a three pointer to give his team the 48-40 lead.  Untalan then hit two more shots to push the lead to double-digits, 54-42, until hitting his second three pointer a few plays later to close out the game.

’07 made another run after a Duenas three-pointer to cut the lead 67-61 but the starting five, led by Yu and Brian Aflague, managed to shut down ’07 in the final two minutes to keep their perfect record in tact.

Score Recap:

2008 – 47, 1998 – 35

2011 – 46, 2012 – 57

85/86/AD7 – 56, 1970 – 38

430 – 58, 96/97 – 39

84/89 – 43, 92 – 40

2010 – 78, 2012 – 77

2013 – 45, 2004 – 44

2002 – 94, 00/05 – 59

1995 – 50, 2001 – 27

COMPLETE TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD

PHOTO GALLERY BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

’07’s Jude Martinez flips in the layup for two of his game high 24 points. (photo by Jesse Castro)

’07’s Brandon Duenas hits the layup over ’06 defenders. (photo by Jesse Castro)

1998’s Vince Quitigua gets around 2008’s Jason Baza for the layup. (photo by Jesse Castro)

’08’s Jason Baza connects on the jump shot. (photo by Jesse Castro)

’08’s Robert Balajadia works his way around defenders in the first half. (photo by Jesse Castro)

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