THERE have been seven 100 points-or-more performances by a homegrown athlete in Philippine basketball history.
Strangely, only three found its way to Wikipedia’s “List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game” around the world.
The three 100-point feats that have officially been documented by Wikipedia are the following:
1. Luis “Lou” Salvador’s 116 points in the Philippines’ gold medal-winning encounter against China during the 1923 Far Eastern Games in Osaka, Japan, which supposedly was the forerunner of the Asian Games yet featured only three countries – Japan, China and the Philippines – at the time.
Note that the 30-second shot clock was not yet in existence and neither was the three-point shot. A product of Jose Rizal College, the prolific and well-conditioned Salvador unbelievably connected on most of his shots from midcourt during his historic game against the Chinese, the highest output ever for an official international tournament (as distinguished from a local/foreign league competition).
According to the Leyte-born Salvador, he had practiced with a medicine ball daily for a whole year at the YMCA compound before chalking up the mind-boggling 116-point feat.
Salvador said that he used to throw the medicine ball continuously to accustom himself. And when the time came for him to make the attempt with the actual ball, everything was easy.
Salvador, to the uninitiated, was also a movie/stage producer and was known to local showbusiness as the “Master Showman” and father to a dozen actors and actresses.
Legend has it that he sired 58 – repeat, 58 – children during his earthly existence. He lived with 25 wives and had 14 of them under one roof at one time. To all the girls he had loved before, Salvador was their Julio Iglesias.
Among Lou’s children were Leroy Salvador (+), Alona Alegre, Philip (Ipe) Salvador and future Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) professional Roberto (Jumbo) Salvador.
2. Jeron Teng’s 104 points during Xavier School’s masterful 164-74 victory over Grace Christian College in a Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association (MMTLBA) high school game on January 5, 2011.
A 16-year-old HS junior at the time, Teng recently completed his third year of varsity eligibility with the De La Salle University Green Archers in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) with a third consecutive Final Four trip, including a championship and a Finals Most Valuable Player hardware in 2013.
3. Just when everybody thought Jeron’s Philippine high school scoring record would take a long time to duplicate, let alone surpass, here comes unheralded Clark Quijano of the AMA Computer University Junior Titans with a whopping 120 points in a 166-85 shellacking of Lord’s Grace Christian School in the 7th Mariano Bondoc Cup tournament on October 20, 2013.
Quijano thus now owns the individual record for the most points in a high school game in Philippine basketball history.
For some reasons, Wikipedia has yet to document four other 100-point performances by a Filipino cager, including three from a collegiate league in Cebu City.
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