Japeth Aguilar scored 23 points, and Stanley Pringle popped late in the fourth quarter, as Barangay Ginebra beat Rain Or Shine 81-73 in the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup on Friday at AUF Sports Arena in Angeles City, Pampanga.

Pringle struggled from the field, but he made back-to-back baskets that stretched a one-possession game to a 78-71 lead with less than 2 minutes in the game.

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Top seed Ginebra awaits the winner of the San Miguel Beer-Meralco duel for its opponent in the next round.

For Aguilar, Rain Or Shine was far from being the 8th seed.

"Lamang lang kami ng one win sa kanila, so walang seeding talaga," said the Ginebra big man, who finished with 11 rebounds and 11 of 15 field-goal shooting.

"ROS is a very good team, well-coached, 'yung defense nila maganda. So coming into this game inisip namin grind out game ito."

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It was Aguilar's best game of the tournament so far, and it came at the most opportune time.

He had been inactive for a number of weeks heading into the bubble, and it took a while before he could get into game rhythm.

Cone said he was pleased to see Aguilar peak at this stage of the Cup.

"It was a trial for him coming in to the bubble. He wasn't able to join our clusters so he came in to the bubble really way behind, just doing stuff he can do inside his garage," Cone said.

"So it's really a struggle for him in the beginning so really worked hard extra running.

"We really needed Japeth to show up tonight and he did a tremendous job."

Mark Borboran scored 13 points off the bench to lead Rain Or Shine, the first quarterfinalist to exit the bubble.

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