{"id":324467,"date":"2026-04-25T20:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324467"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:44:48","slug":"nlex-pulls-away-from-terrafirma-secures-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/nlex-pulls-away-from-terrafirma-secures-playoff-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"NLEX pulls away from Terrafirma, secures playoff berth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NLEX Road Warriors\u2019 Robert Bolick during a game against Terrafirma Dyip within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. \u2013PBA IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2013NLEX seized solo control of second place within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup with a 95-85 win over Terrafirma Dyip on Saturday at Ninoy Aquino Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Road Warriors improved to 7-2 and secured a quarterfinals berth, moving a half a game ahead of Barangay Ginebra (6-2), which is in a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

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NLEX broke the sport open within the third quarter, unloading 34 points while limiting Terrafirma to only nine to construct a 70-56 lead heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you\u2019re playing teams like Terrafirma, their efforts are one hundred percent each game,\u201d coach NLEX Jong Uichico.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care about their standings, the moment they enter the sport, their goal is to win and provides their easiest. That\u2019s why we didn\u2019t take them evenly.\u201d<\/p>\n

As usual, Robert Bolick led the Road Warriors with an all-around game of 20 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and three blocks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe just stayed aggressive because we knew we would have liked this wan bad. We just gave it our greatest,\u201d said Bolick.<\/p>\n

Helping him was Cady Lalanne, who registered a double-double of 15 points and 12 rebounds. LJay Gonzales and JB Bahio scored 16 each while Tony Semerad pitched in 14 points.<\/p>\n

Mav Ahanmisi paced Terrafirma with 22 points, however the Dyip dropped their sixth straight game to fall to 3-6. His brother Jerick added 13, while Mubashar Ali had 11 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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NLEX Road Warriors\u2019 Robert Bolick during a game against Terrafirma Dyip within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. \u2013PBA IMAGES MANILA, Philippines\u2013NLEX seized solo control of second place within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup with a 95-85 win over Terrafirma Dyip on Saturday at Ninoy Aquino Stadium. The Road Warriors improved to 7-2 and secured a quarterfinals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[3958,2748,2441,1465,4047,2888],"class_list":["post-324467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-berth","tag-nlex","tag-playoff","tag-pulls","tag-secures","tag-terrafirma"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324470,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324467\/revisions\/324470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}