Sports Weekly Magazine’s feature on Ompong Segura after his go-ahead basket gave Toyota a thrilling victory over Crispa in the 1975 PBA Second Conference.
RODOLFO SEGURA: HE KEEPS HIS CHIN UP ON THE HARDCOURT
Sports Weekly Magazine
October 31-November 7, 1975
The crowd had started sparse in the Second Conference of the PBA. But last October 9 at the Araneta Coliseum, a large crowd came to see the classic match between the top two favorites in the tournament — Toyota and Crispa-Floro.
The going was tough. The hordes of Toyota fans in the Coliseum were shrieking at the top of their voices. The score was even at 108. With barely three seconds to go, Rudy Segura received a long pass from Jake Rojas, Rudy made a line drive from the left angle and laid up to beat the gun. And Segura’s heroics clinched the game for the Comets at 110 to Crispa’s 108.
Many times in the games, Rudy scored on exactly the same drive when he spearheaded the fastbreaks of Toyota. His style is simple. You see him hustling in the hardcourt, making his favorite jumpshot and grabbing or intercepting the ball. Or he can fire those rimless, back of the head hoisted shots. At other times, he lays up from under like an angry lion, and rebounds his own misses for follow ups and second tries at glory.
Basketball is not an easy field and Segura has this to say: “Basketball is not all glamour as many people believe it. It is a long, hard struggle to survive, a ladder of ups and downs. It requires so much discipline and skill.”
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