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The fourth day of the PBA team competition has finished after five match days and 15 games with the Heroes team in top position. The margin between the two leading teams, Heroes and Phoenix, has been reduced to one point. The match between Heroes and Winners had a spectacular outcome. Heroes faced a big backlog after three losses, but Robinson Morales/Mi-rae Lee (15-14), the best individual player Nam-Soo Kim (15-7) and finally Gyeong-Seop Jung (11/5 ) made Heroes cross the line with a draw.
In the first three matches, Eddy Leppens defeated Greek Filippos Kasidokostas 15-3 in 2 innings. The Belgian also won the double match with Dong-Koong Kang.
In the match between Heroes and Phoenix, victory (4-2) went to Phoenix, which took second place on the ranking after this fourth tournament.
Phoenix and Alphas recorded 8 match points this week against 7 for Heroes and Angels.
In the individual rankings, two players from the leading team are in the lead: Nam-Soo Kim and Robinson Morales with a 66.70 percent score each. Third place goes to the first lady in the rankings, Yu-ram Cha (Phoenix) with the same percentage. Four Phoenix players are in top eight, besides Yu-ram Cha also Hyun-min Seo and Birol Uymaz with 65.5 and 64 and Frédéric Caudron with 56.3 percent.
The ranking after the fourth PBA event:
1 Phoenix 8 points
2 Alphas 8
3 Angels 7
4 Heroes 7
5 Raon 6
6 Winners 3.
The general ranking:
1 Heroes 32 points
2 Phoenix 31
3 Alphas 28
4 Winners 26
5 Raon 23
6 Angels 20.
The leading Heroes team with individual leader Nam-soo Kim on the right.