Ever Bilena scores 2nd win; Oracle triumphs

Ever Bilena stamped its class over Mail & More, 89-76, for its second straight win while UAAP champion Oracle Residences-FEU bounced back with a victory over Oracare-College of St. Benilde, 61-45, in the Women’s Philippine Basketball League (WPBL) yesterday at the FEU gym.

The Gandang Pinay leaned on the red-hot shooting of Marichu Bacaro and Aimi Ono for the second straight time to tie Smart Sports-University of the Philippines for second in the revival tournament of the country’s lone women’s cage league.

The 5-foot-3 Bacaro, the reigning UAAP MVP from UST, came through with 22 points, five assists, four rebounds and four steals while Ono tossed in 20 points.

Katherine Reyes, meanwhile, topscored for the Lady Tamaraws with 18 points, including nine in the third quarter that saw the Sheila Romero-owned Oracle Residences pull away for good.

The Lady Maroons chalked up their second win Saturday by downing Xtreme-RP youth squad, 80-54, through the efforts of Fille Cainglet and Fatima Tolentino, who both fired 17 points each.