FIRST-TIME EVER HISTORIC MORNING GAME IN THE PBA DURING THIS PANDEMIC TIMES
During the jump ball that started the basketball game, San Miguel and Blackwater naively became part of PBA history.The two teams became the first teams to play in the first-ever morning game in the league’s 45-year history on Tuesday.
This happened in the morning match at the Angeles University Foundation gym that was the curtain raiser of a long quadruple header featured for the day – also a first ever in PBA annals.
First time to happen too were quadruple games according to Mauro Bengua, PBA operations officer who’s been around the league for more than two decades now and among its longest-tenured personnel. Bengua recalled that there were triple headers before but this only happened only when the national team played as “guest”, but quadruple games never yet.
PBA chief statistician Fidel Mangonon III later validated the records, adding this also marked the first time the league will be having the most ever games in a week, and the first time ever with multiple teams playing in back-to-back days.
Both San Miguel and Blackwater left the Quest Hotel on the way to the venue before 8 a.m. and were already warming up an hour before the game.
After Tuesday’s games, four other quadruple headers will be played on Wednesday, Friday (Nov. 6), Sunday (Nov. 8), and Wednesday (Nov. 11).
Blackwater,Terrafirma, Rain or Shine, and NLEX are the other teams scheduled to play the coming morning games.#