PRESS RELEASE – Team Austability won the Triton Men’s Basketball League championship on Monday night in the UOG Calvo Field House with a 88-77 victory over the KFC Bombers.
The game followed the same script as most Team Austability and KFC Bombers games this season, it started slow with good defense and a lot of missed shots early. In the four meetings during spring season of the Triton League, Team Austability averaged 88.75 points, and the KFC Bombers averaged 76.75 points, almost the exact score of the championship game.
The first five minutes there was a lot of missed 3 pointers by Austability while the Bombers missed a lot under the basketball shots. Austability was without their biggest player on the night, Ben Borja, so the Bombers could rebound better on the evening and was able to lead after the first quarter, 23-20 over Austability.
But in the 2nd quarter, Team Austability was able to find their offense and put up 28 points, led by Mark Johnson’s 8 points but the Austability defense was more impressive, holding the Bombers to 9 points during the quarter and Team Austability led 48-32 at halftime.
The Bombers were able to make a bit of comeback in the 3rd quarter, scoring 20 points in the period and holding Austability to only 14 points. The Bombers trailed by 10 points going into the 4th period 62-52.
The Bombers made a run at coming back even more in the final 10 minutes, scoring 25 points in period and twice cutting the Austability’s lead to 6 points, but Austability hit 6 three point shots in the quarter and eventually scored 26 points in the period and kept KFC from getting any closer and was able to win the game 88-77.
Team Austability was led by Mark Johnson with 30 points while Joe Blaz scored 17 and DJ Osborn added 13. The KFC Bombers as usual had a balanced attack led by Jaylin Calhoun with 17 points, Kortez Hixon added 15 and Chris Townsend with 14.
Team Austability ended the season with a 10-1 record, their lone loss a forfeit game when the Guam National Team was off island playing in FIBA qualifying games. The KFC Bombers completed the seeaon at 8-4, with all four losses coming to Team Austability, the Bombers were 8-0 against the rest of the Triton League.
The spring 2025 Triton Men’s Basketball League All-League was named after the game and features the following players:
All-League Team
1. Vander Valentino – MicroFriends
2. Jose Ignacio – MircoFriends
3. Jacob Mercado – UOG Tritons
4. Kyle Watanabe – UOG Tritons
5. EJ Mori – Fairzesh
6. Dkson Attan – Fairzesh
7. Manne Piillias – Fairzesh
8. Tezz Williams – KFC Bombers
9. Isaac Tamez – KFC Bombers
10. Taarq Harvey – KFC Bombers
11. Ky Wiley – KFC Bombers
12. Joey Delia – Team Austability
13. Mark Johnson – Team Austability
14. DJ Osborn – Team Austability
15. Ben Borja – Team Austability
Most Valuable Player
Joe Blas – Team Austability
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