The final bout between the Alumni and Makati Basketball Teams

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Alas! The long wait was over as the basketball tournament had just been concluded last December 13, 2008 at the Taft Gymnasium. Two games were set: MBA-JD versus Manila and Alumni versus Makati. It was unfortunate that Manila was sanctioned with default giving the MBA-JD an immediate seat to the 2nd runner-up (the Manila team was not able to complete their line-up prior to the event); however, having witnessed their previous game it would have been a very interesting game to watch. Nevertheless, the championship between the Alumni Paladins and Makati Marksman was able to stir up the heat. It was somehow expected to have the Makati Marksman at the championship since they've won the same title last year but I guess things were more difficult this year. It was the first time to have an alumni team battling along with our students during a sportsfest, especially for basketball. Indeed they have not even failed bringing their audience to cheer them during the games, probably one of the reasons they have performed astonishingly with zero defeats throughout the entire Olympics. So watching them at the last game was indeed entertaining especially during the last quarter where Makati Marksman always managed to inch up its score to put the Alumni Paladins in such excruciating and heart-pounding situation.

Sweat to sweat, the game went really hard as each players from both separate teams exerted extreme efforts in making good scores just to assume a favorable lead and it was just a matter of few time left when the Alumni got the best opportunity to beat the previous hailed champion of GSB Olympics.

Definitely the hardwork of Alumni has been paid off who is now our Basketball Champion for GSB Olympics 2008! Kudos to the Alumni Paladins!