{"id":119058,"date":"2025-09-04T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:15:13","slug":"gilas-pilipinas-youth-falls-to-bahrain-misses-fiba-u16-asia-cup-qf-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119058\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas Youth falls to Bahrain, misses FIBA U16 Asia Cup QF for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gilas Pilipinas Youth fell to Bahrain, 79-66, in the qualification round for the quarterfinals of the FIBA U16 Asia Cup in Mongolia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time the Philippines will miss the quarterfinals in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Gilas trailed 42-37 at halftime, but Bahrain pulled away in the third period, outscoring the Philippines 20-13 to build a 62-50 lead entering the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines attempted a comeback and cut the deficit to 72-66 with less than two minutes remaining, but Bahrain responded with a 7-0 run to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Adel Abdulla led Bahrain with 22 points, while Ali Husain Mohamed, Hussain Fuad Moosa Sharaf Ghuloom, and Hassan Oshobuge Abdulkadir added 15 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Luisito Joel Pascual was the lone Gilas player in double figures with 10 points, while Jhustin Hallare chipped in nine points.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines finished the tournament with one win (against Indonesia) and three losses (to Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, and Bahrain).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the country&#8217;s lowest finish was 7th place in the 2022 edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas Youth fell to Bahrain, 79-66, in the qualification round for the quarterfinals of the FIBA U16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,84185,726,84186,84184,85],"class_list":["post-119058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bahrain-basketball-association","tag-basketball","tag-fiba-u16-asia-cup","tag-gilas-pilipinas-u16","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}