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:''For the baseball club, see Vaqueros de Bayamón (baseball).'' The Vaqueros de Bayamón (English: Bayamón Cowboys) are a Puerto Rican professional basketball team based in Bayamón, that competes in the National Superior Basketball (BSN) league. The Cowboys play their home games at Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum a venue shared with the LVSF's Bayamón Cowgirls. The Cowboys are one of the most successful teams in the history of the BSN league, and have won 14 league championships, their last being in 2009. The franchise began in 1930 and still stands as one of the league's original clubs. Led by Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón established a BSN record for most consecutive championships with 5, from 1971 to 1975. After losing in the 2001, 2002 and 2005 BSN Finals, the Cowboys won their record fourteenth championship by defeating the Quebradillas Pirates for the 2009 title, their first in 13 years. Among other records, the Cowboys hold the record for most games won in a BSN season, 29 of them, set during the 1993 season. ==Rubén Rodríguez== Rubén Rodríguez played for the Vaqueros for 23 seasons, always wearing number 15. He debuted in the league in 1969 and scored 11,549 points and 6,178 rebounds in 631 games. He established various records in the league: * Points in a career - 11,549 . * Points in a season - 810 (1979) * Points in a game - 52 (1973) * Rebounds in a career - 6,178 He also had the record of rebounds in a season from 1978-2008; this record was broken by Lee Benson on May 3, 2008 also joining the Vaqueros. Rodríguez spent his whole career with the team Vaqueros of Bayamón. With the Vaqueros, he won 9 national championships, 1967, 1969, five in a row from 1971 to 1975, one in 1981 and one in 1988, the year that the team inaugurated his actual venue, that carries his name, the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum. He also garnered the MVP award in 1979, and, once the three-point shot was established for the first time in the Puerto Rican tournament during the 1980 season, he started making shots from behind the three-point line too. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vaqueros de Bayamón」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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