Stallions in Full Throttle!

Stallions Basketball is on a roll so far with a 4-0 flawless record. After the traditional opening game winner against Team Yellow (3rd time in a row), the Stallions started to move forward to grab the goal of 'no less than a championship' thus won the following three games against Team Green, Vendors, and Red.

Joseph Aguilar receiving instructions from playing coach Elmer Galvez before the game starts. How is he going to fit in within the circle?

Team Green was the 1st season's 1st runner-up. Their ace player 'Buljak' was re-signed by the team in order to put up a fight once again this season as they were downed to the 8th place which was the worst last season. Team Green also acquired Grimares who was a former teammate of Joseph Aguilar from the Blue team of the 1st season who is a top gun to consider. With good recruits, Team Green fared well against the Stallions.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - it was a war that occurred. The game ended with two casualities from the Team Green; one with an ankle sprain and the other has suffered a knee injury. Also, some Stallions took it up close with Team Green star player 'Buljak' -- Buboy Nodalo, shoved his shoulder after fouling out, same with Nanat Aguilar who spitted on his face on his final foul, Wilson De Leon also almost had a fight when the game was halt because the basketball game might turned out to be a riot between the two teams. Allan Zamora, Team Green's head coach, instigated a walk-out but failed after being conferred by the commissioners. The aftermath was a point lead for the Fighting Stallions, a hard fought victory.

The following game day was a good day to walk in a park. The Fighting Stallions man-handled Team Vendors with a 51 point lead! Enough said.

Lighting never strikes twice in the same place -- and it did! Team Red knocked-out the Fighting Stallions on a twice-to-beat advantage, twice in a row, beaten twice in two consecutive seasons on a play-off. A clear testament of 'speed kills' but the Stallions don't have plans anymore of losing this conference.

The game ended 89-87 in favor of the Stallions. It was an intense game that made a lot of players fouled-out; 4 players from the Red Team and a player from the Stallions. Team Red always 'put their best foot forward' through applying a full-court pressure on any team because their team is composed of agile players and it worked wonders against the Stallions which was evident with the results of the play-off games.

Given that the Red Team is a fast team, Stallions had surprised them with a counter full-court pressure which off-balanced their offense. Credits to Buboy Nodalo, Nanat, and Joseph Aguilar whom played a ragged defense at the backcourt that made the depleted line-up of Red Team worn out. As players from the Red Team was in foul trouble and some were fouled-out, it was Don-Don Nodalo and Bong Iranga, Stallions' giants, whom dominated the inside. The Red Team was never giving in as they were still ahead by two points at the last minute. The defense worked out well further for the Stallions -- the last seconds was crucial as Bong Iranga basket two important put-backs on the crunch that put the Stallions ahead and finally snatched the victory over the Team Red at the final buzzer.

Tomorrow is going to be against the team that beaten the Stallions last conference at the elimination round. Team Blue took the 1st runner up at the first conference this season. Let's go for a bounce back and show them that they only lucked-out, a convincing win for pride! GO STALLIONS!