Rigmarolers Settle for 4th

Out of sheer sportsmanship, the Kumbento88 Rigmarolers played out their last game for this season's KBBL last Saturday. And we eventually ended up losing to the younger Batch 93 and settle for 4th place after failing to defend our crown.

The first half saw a nip-and-tuck ballgame with the Rigmarolers, which played with only exactly five player during that entire half, trailing by only two points at the halftime break.

The 3rd quarter saw two substitutes arriving to relieve the visibly exhausted players of the Rigmarolers. But Batch 93 was still able to pad their lead to around 10 points by the end of the quarter.

With fatigue and exhaustion finally catching up with the relatively senior players in the match-up, Batch 93 capitalized on the lack of manpower of their opponents and broke the game wide open by the start of the 4th quarter. Batch 93, thus officially snatched 2nd Runner-Up honors via a 20+ rout over the Rigmarolers.

And as with our previous KBBL games, win or lose, celebration at Ravalos followed right after the game. Talks of a unified powerhouse team for the Rigmarolers next season are already being floated. And everyone seems to be just as upbeat on the prospects of reclaiming our crown come next year.

PS: We weren't able to watch the end of the Championship Game that followed immediately after our Battle for 3rd. It was already Game 2 of the Best of Three Series between the young and visibly improved Batch 99 and the title-hungry Batch 90, the team that "ousted" us in the semifinals. Batch 99 won Game 1, and with the looks of how the game was being played, with Batch 99 already erecting a huge 20+ point lead by the end of the 1st quarter, it was only a matter of time before Batch 99 cops the crown for the 2nd KBBL Championship. That is unless, of course, Batch 90 finds a way of controlling the dominant big men of Batch 90 - like maybe if Batch 99's big men got thrown out or suspended? Otherwise, it's a back-to-back Cinderella finish for Batch 90 this year. Oh well, as Alicia Keys would sing it - what goes around comes around.