San Miguel and Ginebra Meet in Winner-Take-All Game 5 for Last Governors’ Cup Semifinal Spot

SMB vs Ginebra PBA Season 50 Governors’ Cup quarterfinal Game 5, Digi Mart USA News (Antipolo, Philippines): The PBA Season 50 Governors’ Cup Final Four lineup will be completed Tuesday night, and one proud ballclub will see its season end.

San Miguel Beer and Barangay Ginebra will dispute the last Governors’ Cup semifinal berth in a winner-take-all Game 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ynares Center in Antipolo.

The Beermen and the Kings split the first four games of their race-to-three quarterfinal series.

The winner advances to face defending champion TNT Tropang 5G in a best-of-five semifinal series, while the loser goes home. The other semifinal pairing will feature NLEX against Converge.

After what transpired in the last two games, no one is brave enough to predict how this one ends. Ginebra appeared headed for a sweep after winning the first two games, while San Miguel looked dead and buried.

San Miguel first survived with a 101-99 win last Tuesday. It then mounted a furious rally from 17 points down to steal a 108-102 victory in Game 4 on Friday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

The reigning Philippine Cup champions are now on the cusp of a reverse sweep, another “Beeracle” in the making.

Can Ginebra rediscover the form that gave it a 2-0 lead, or will San Miguel complete the comeback and keep its Beeracle run alive? It has been a fierce series between two proud franchises from the San Miguel Corp.

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Reigning Commissioner’s Cup kingpin Ginebra opened with emphatic 104-95 and 126-99 victories to get on the hill early. Current Philippine Cup titlist SMB struck back twice, with 101-99 and 108-102 wins, to force the rubber match.

SMB coach Leo Austria said it is no time to celebrate yet. “We haven’t done anything yet.

We just evened the series. They won two straight, we won two straight.

It’s a decider and it’s usually how it goes when we play Ginebra,” said SMB guard Chris Ross.

Ginebra’s situation is still salvageable, and that is what matters to coach Tim Cone at this point. “Bottom line is, it’s tied up, 2-2.

We move forward, all right, get ready for the next one,” said Cone after the Game 4 heartbreaker.