With five players scoring double digits, league leaders the Liaoning Flying Leopards bagged their eighth straight CBA win here on Thursday, a 117-107 victory over the third-placed Zhejiang Golden Bulls.

Coming off the bench, Guo Ailun scored a game-high 26 points, Zhang Zhenlin had 22 points and O.J. Mayo added 21 more for Liaoning.

Wu Qian led Zhejiang with 21 points and eight assists, while Nicholas Rakocevic and Chen Shuaipeng finished with 17 points apiece.

Zhejiang obtained an eight-point advantage before Guo made a layup and delivered a pass to Zhu Rongzhen for a three-point play to make it 29-26 in the first quarter.

Liaoning retook the lead after Wu Changze knocked down a 3-pointer to make it 33-31 before the lead seesawed between the two sides. Zhejiang stormed into an 8-2 run to make it 53-46 with 1:21 remaining and led 59-53 at the break.

Trailing by six points, Liaoning came from behind to tie 69-69 after Guo made a free throw, and led Zhejiang 89-84 going into the last period.

Liaoning widened the gap to double-digits after a 12-2 streak early in the fourth quarter and firmly held the advantage, leaving Zhejiang with no chance to come back.

"It was a tough game. We have some players injured at the moment. We only played a good half and still have a long way to go compared with the top teams in the league," Wu Qian said afterwards. 

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