Guam basketball

The US territory was beaten 85-77 in the second leg of their final qualifying series against Chinese Taipei on Saturday, giving the visitors a three point aggregate win over two games in Mangilao.

Guam won the first quarter by six points to stretch their advantage to 11 points but lost the final three perios by a combined 14 points and missed a three pointer on the full-time buzzer that would have tied the series and forced overtime.

Head coach EJ Calvo admitted it was a tough way to lose.

"We thought we had a really good performance," he said.

A bumper crowd turned up to watch the match with a high number of Guam supporters.

Fiji got off to a good start leading in the first quarter 17-15 but Guam bounced back in the second quarter to take the lead by 10 points at half time, 36-26.

Guam dominated the rest of the game with three pointers coming from Jesus Cruz taking Guam to 51-44 at the end of the third quarter.

Both teams put up a great challenge and entertained the crowd in the final quarter as the countdown began to full time.