Newsome scores game-winning layup as Meralco slips past Blackwater

PBA: Meralco fends off epic Blackwater fightback, wins second in a row

Meralco nearly collapsed from an 18-point lead after a wild Blackwater comeback, but held on to take a 116-114 win in the PBA Season 50 Governors' Cup on Tuesday at the Ynares Center Antipolo.

Newsome scores game-winning layup as Meralco slips past Blackwater

Chris Newsome scored the game-winning layup with 3.9 seconds left as Meralco averted a huge a collapse and slipped past Blackwater, 116-114, to pick up its...

PBA: Chris Newsome’s late heroics lift Meralco past Blackwater

Chris Newsome nailed the go-ahead bucket with 3.9 seconds left to tow Meralco past Blackwater, 116-114, for its second win in a row in the PBA Season 50 Governors’ Cup at the Ynares Center in Antipolo on Tuesday night. The star guard came through under duress time and again, making sure not to waste Chris Banchero’s pass and to close out a crazy sequence that saw both squads exchange misses in an attempt to break the 114-all deadlock. The Bossin…