S19 Consolation Game 5 : Singapore crushed depleted home team Lithuania 103-79
Rare occasion. An expected tough road games for Singapore turned out to be the opposite.
After tied 48-48 on halftime, Singapore used the midway of 3rd quarter to take over the lead. And with Lithuanian only bigman, Benjaminas Tauscikas, fouled out, Singapore started the rout of home team, scored 32-16 at 4th to finish the game at 103-79. Ip Kai Chung was strong on 4th, scoring a baseline jumper, then a brilliant steal over Manigirdas Trumpius led for Pang Jun Wai breakaway dunk, capped the lead at 87-71. Lithuania hardly recover, and had to play with Singapore reserves at the end of the game.
Lithuania were missing several of key bigmen, as it shown very obvious the European juggernaut were outrebounded 58-39.
Ang Han Yao led Singapore with 23pts & 8rebs, Ahmad Islam & Rumi each scored 16, Sun Qingxian scored 12, and Ip-Man scored 11pts (5-7 FG) 7assits & 3steals.
Singapore will be back home to host Cyprus U21 on next week