United COE against Al Ghanim during their semi-final match |
After a grueling twelve games of hard fought battles from the eliminations all the way to the semi-finals, United COE captured a berth for the finals against the league leader Al Nasser sports of PhilBacks Inter-company division 7th season.
Before capturing the spot in the finals; United COE finished an 8-2 win loss card and enjoyed a twice to beat advantage in the quarterfinals. United COE was pitted against KASCO in the quarter-final. United COE disposed KASCO via a comfortable margin and avenged their earlier loss against this team in the elimination.
The rest of the quarter-final teams are up against each other in the below match-up.
Ranking | Team | Rank | Team | winners | |
1 | Nasser Sports | Vs | 8 | Square | Nasser Sports |
2 | United COE | Vs | 7 | KASCO | United COE |
3 | HEISCO | VS | 6 | Go Sports | HEISCO |
4 | AL Ghanim | Vs | 5 | IKEA | Al Ghanim |
Results of the above match-up was like the same order of the ranking wherein top one to four qualified after demolishing the teams from rank number five to eight.
In the semis United COE defeated Al Ghanim, in an equally exciting game during their first match-up in the elimination, this time with only two points. Both teams showed tremendous defense which is evident after a total of five players were fouled out; four key players from Al Ghanim and one from COE.
United COE |
Fouled out players from Al Ghanim really hurt the team during the final crunch in the dying minutes wherein COE is up only by two points. Al Ghanim playing without De leon and Topher succumbed to their second defeat to COE.
Meanwhile HEISCO came out short in their campaign to qualify in the finals after beaten by Nasser Sports.
Championship Game is expected to be played on 10th February 2012 in Reggai and for more details find PhilBack’s facebook page.
United COE squad. |