1995 PBA All-Filipino Cup Finals

The 1995 PBA All-Filipino Cup Finals was the best-of-7 series basketball championship of the 1995 PBA All-Filipino Cup, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs. The Sunkist Orange Juicers and Alaska Milkmen played for the 60th championship contested by the league. [1]

1995 PBA All-Filipino Cup Finals
TeamCoachWins
Sunkist Orange Juicers Derrick Pumaren 4
Alaska Milkmen Tim Cone 3
DatesMay 7–21, 1995
MVPVergel Meneses
TelevisionVintage Sports (PTV)
Radio networkDZRH

Sunkist Orange Juicers won over Alaska Milkmen in a thrilling seven-game series for their third PBA title. The Juicers became the 8th team to win the All-Filipino crown. [2]

Qualification
SunkistAlaska
Finished 7–3 (.700), 1stEliminationsFinished 5–5 (.500), tied for 3rd
Finished 13–5 (.722), 1stSemifinalsFinished 10–8 (.556), tied for 2nd
PlayoffWon against Purefoods, 115-89

Series scoring summary
Team Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 Wins
Sunkist 1049298889586874
Alaska 1108592949092783
Venue CunetaCunetaAranetaCunetaCunetaCunetaCuneta

Games summary

Game 1
May 7
Sunkist Orange Juicers 104, Alaska Milkmen 110
Pts: Meneses 24 Pts: Lastimosa 34 Abarrientos 30
Alaska leads series, 1-0
Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City

Alaska rallied from 12 points down and held Sunkist scoreless in the last 1:28. Jojo Lastimosa, who finish with 34 points, Abarrientos, Hawkins and rookie Jeffrey Cariaso knock in the Milkmen's last eight points to seal the come-from-behind win.

Game 2

Nelson Asaytono led a fourth quarter assault as he struck for six points in a 10-2 blast by the Juicers starting the final period that turned a slim 70-68 lead to an 80-70 advantage. The Milkmen did not score for more than five minutes during the Juicers' run.

Game 3
May 12
Sunkist Orange Juicers 98, Alaska Milkmen 92
Pts: Bonel Balingit 22 Pts: Jeffrey Cariaso 20
Sunkist leads series, 2-1
Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City

Bonel Balingit banged in a career-high 22 points, poured in 14 of his points in the decisive fourth quarter as the Juicers, who trailed by as many as 14 points in the third period, came back to outscored the Milkmen, 32-18 in the final 12 minutes.

Game 4

Jeffrey Cariaso scored 11 of Alaska's last 13 points and broke the final tie at 81-all with a driving layup, Sunkist' Rudy Distrito committed a flagrant foul on Cariaso when he hit the rookie's back on the way down from a layup, sending him crashing to the floor. Vergel Meneses, who won best player of the conference, put on an awesome display of firepower in the third quarter, scoring the Juicer's first 16 points with three triples.

Game 5
May 16
Sunkist Orange Juicers 95, Alaska Milkmen 90
Pts: Vergel Meneses 31 Pts: Bong Hawkins 28
Sunkist leads series, 3-2
Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City

Sunkist led by as much as 22 points, the last at 80-58. Bong Hawkins scored 24 of his 28 points in the second half as he combined with Johnny Abarrientos to bring the milkmen to within two, 87-89 with only 1:26 left. Juicers' guard Ricric Marata struck inside with a layup and Bonel Balingit's short stab and a foul off Alaska's Poch Juinio gave Sunkist a 93-87 edge.

Game 6
May 19
Sunkist Orange Juicers 86, Alaska Milkmen 92
Pts: Meneses 16 Asaytono 16 Pts: Abarrientos 21
Series tied, 3-3
Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City

Alaska held down Vergel Meneses to only 16 points while Johnny Abarrientos poured in 19 of his 21 points in the second half, most of them in the third quarter run, a Poch Juinio follow up on a Lastimosa miss gave Alaska an 85-74 lead with only 1:15 left.

Game 7
May 21
Sunkist Orange Juicers 87, Alaska Milkmen 78 (OT)
Pts: Vergel Meneses 18 Pts: Jeffrey Cariaso 24
Sunkist wins series, 4-3
Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City

Bonel Balingit and Ricric Marata knock in nine of Sunkist' 13 points in overtime as the Juicers held on to beat Alaska and hand coach Derrick Pumaren his first PBA title. Vergel Meneses sank in a clutch triple with time winding down in regulation after the Milkmen battled back from 13 points to take a 73-69 lead. Yoyoy Villamin scored on a Meneses assist to tie the count at 74-all with 10 seconds left, Johnny Abarrientos missed on a short jumper inside the paint as Alaska blew a chance to win the game outright.

1995 PBA All-Filipino Cup Champions

Sunkist Orange Juicers
Third title

Occurrences

Sunkist' Rudy Distrito was sacked by the PBA for the rest of the season for nudging Jeffrey Cariaso in mid air during Game 4. An incident also took place in that game involving a bodyguard of Alaska team owner Wilfred Uytengsu, who harassed Distrito and Vergel Meneses following Distrito's dangerous foul on Jeffrey Cariaso.

Rosters
Sunkist Orange Juicers roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.
C 4 Balingit, Bonel 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) University of Visayas
G 8 Solis, Al 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) University of Visayas
G 9 Victoria, Boybits 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) San Beda College
F 10 Reyes, Enrique 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Ateneo de Manila
F 11 Asaytono, Nelson 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) University of Manila
F 13 Villamin, Elpidio 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
G 14 Distrito, Rudy 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) UE
G 16 Albarillo, Marcelino 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) University of Mindanao
F 18 Meneses, Vergel 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Jose Rizal College
F 19 Duremdes, Kenneth 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Adamson University
G 23 Marata, Ricardo 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) SWU
C 35 Realubit, Zaldy 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) San Jose-Recoletos
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Gabby Velasco
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Alaska Milkmen roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.Age
G/F 4 Castelo, Merwin 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) San Beda College
G 5 Reyes, Gilbert 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Ateneo de Manila
G/F 6 Lastimosa, Jojo 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) San Jose Recoletos
G 7 Gomez, Roehl 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Cebu Central
C 12 Bachmann, Dickie 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) De La Salle
G 14 Abarrientos, Johnny 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Far Eastern
F 16 Hawkins, Bong 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Perpetual Help College
G/F 22 Cariaso, Jeffrey 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Sonoma State
C 24 Bolado, Cris 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) National University
F/C 31 Pineda, Giovanni 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Adamson University
C 32 Juinio, Poch 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) UP-Diliman
C 50 Araneta, Alex 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Ateneo de Manila
F 54 Ampalayo, Dondon 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) San Jose Recoletos
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured

Broadcast notes
GamePlay-by-playAnalystCourtside reporters
Game 1
Game 2Ed PicsonQuinito HensonAnthony Suntay and Romy Kintanar
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Game 6
Game 7Ed PicsonAndy Jao

References
  1. "All-Pinoy finals Milk and Juice fare starts today". Manila Standard.
  2. "Milk or Juice, the series finally gets to end tonite". Manila Standard.
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