Mighty Sports blasts Egypt, guns for sweep in Jones Cup

TAIPEI – Mighty Sports Apparels lined itself up for a plausible perfect title run as it rolled past FIBA Afro five-time champion Egypt, 80-61, in the penultimate play date of the 38th William Jones Cup basketball tournament at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium here yesterday.

Assured of the crown before the game, the Phl Mighty quintet nonetheless buckled down to work and stretched its streak to seven games following earlier wins over Chinese Taipei A, Korea, Sacramento State, Japan, India and deposed titlist Iran.

Mighty Sports, backed by Scratch It Pera-Pera Agad-Agad! and Symarom, goes for a sweet sweep of the nine-team, one-round-robin against Chinese Taipei B at 5 p.m. today.