Pampanga picked up two wins on Thursday in the PSL Luzon Regional Finals Born 2004 division at the University of Batangas Gym in Batangas City.
The team from Central Luzon scored 15 straight points bridging the third and fourth quarters to whip Pangasinan, 92-77.
Protecting a 64-57 lead in the closing stage of the third, Pampanga turned on the heat and scored 15 unanswered points in a span of three minutes and padded the lead to as high as 22, 79-57.
But Pampanga faced an acid test in the second game while taking on Bulacan, but nonetheless, the Cabalens were able to score another impressive victory, a 65-57 triumph.
Cavite handed Batangas a sound beating, 114-72, to serve a strong warning against the rest of the field in the under-20 division.
Quezon completed a come-from-behind 79-75 squeaker of Tarlac.
It was a big bounce-back win for the Batang Tiaong of Quezon, which counted on the steady performance of Mick Geronimo.
Quezon held Tarlac scoreless in a four minutes stretch and in return scored 11 straight points to turn on the heat in the fourth period.
Tarlac held Batangas scoreless for more than six minutes in the fourth then unloaded 14 unanswered points all the way to scoring a huge come-from-behind 101-96 triumph.
Gushtin Gurrea led Tarlac’s onslaught as he helped typify his team’s front court advantage against a Batangas Mustangs team that couldn’t get its game going in the fourth period.
Batangas entered the fourth period with an 86-79 lead, but Tarlac came out like a madman and pumped up by the tongue lashing it received from coach Kiko Flores, the visitors came out to conquer the home team by shackling the Mustangs when it mattered the most.
Bulacan jumped the gun early against Laguna and easily coasted to a 79-68 victory.
The young men from Bulacan unloaded 31 points in the first period and held its rival to just nine markers as they were never seriously threatened the rest of the way.
Vince Ramirez, a cool and calculating guard, set the tone for Bulacan.
