Crispa avenged its first round defeat
to Toyota with a lopsided victory to cap off the eliminations of the
1976 PBA Second Conference. Their match overshadowed a then-record 75 points by Harry Rogers for 7-Up hours earlier against Fiberlite.
Crispa clobbers Toyota, 123-97
7-Up's Rogers fires 75
By Ding Marcelo
Bulletin Today
Published Wednesday Oct. 27, 1976
Crispa tore Toyota's game to pieces
last night, handing its bitter rival a 123-97 shellacking as the
Denims gained a psychological edge going into tomorrow's start of the
Philippine Basketball Association second conference semifinals at the
Araneta Coliseum.
Some 23,000 spectators were on hand to
witness the massacre as the Denims, smarting from the absence of ace
gunner William Adornado, took control of the game from the second
quarter on to avenge a 98-95 loss to the Comets in the first round.
An unanswered 13-point explosion by
Crispa at the start of the second quarter set the tone of the
evening's one-sided match as the Denims took a 10-point 40-30 lead
from a 27-30 first quarter deficit.
Though the Comets narrowed the gap as
quickly behind Robert Jaworski and Ramon Fernandez, 42-41, the Denims
retaliated swiftly to pull away at the half, 53-45, from where they
were never again threatened.
