Stallions - Seating at the Top.

Sunday Club, November 22, 09 -- The Dela Fuente Fighting Stallions defeated Team Black (defending champions) in an intense battle for the 1st place.

Warming up -- players were at the court prior an hour to start.

Black Team started the game with a 'fast and the furious' tempo that gave them the 8-0 run at the first 4 minutes of the 1st quarter. Jag Galvez, the 5'11 power forward, answered the call for the Stallions and scored the first 4 points for his team which broke the cold start of the Fighting Stallions. From there, Wilson De Leon started to rally the team with his scoring prowess along with Bong Iranga. Though the Stallions has came back into the ball game, Elmer Galvez gave up 4 hard fouls to the key guards of the Team Black, however it will be harder for his team if he'll be gone too soon, hence all the fouls committed was intended for a psy-war.

Joseph Aguilar taking matters on his own hands.

Second quarter was one fierce quarter as both teams had a deadlock twice at 35-35 and 48-48. The Stallions managed to catch up but Team Black was refusing to give up the lead as they keep on paddling their own boat ahead. Asi Nodalo had a hard time hitting the 'gimmes' under the basket because of his knee complication and yet to credit the tall defense of Team Black at the interior. Speaking of another injury, JR Nodalo's scoring was greatly affected by his hand injury which evidently lessen his scoring. With the injuries weathered the Stallions, Joseph Aguilar decided to take over with his 'Esquerra-esque' moves in order to keep the scoring within par against the opposing team, thus perfected his shots at the freethrow line that makes the ball game so close to begin the 2nd half.

Wilson De Leon started the 3rd quarter strong with a lot of penetrations into the defense, scoring, and dishing out assists to his teammates. He was everywhere at the court as his defensive game clicked as well but an unfortunate foul was called into an all-ball block which transpired to a warning to a technical foul by a suspected impartial referee. The momentum was suddenly turned into the Team Black's favor and started to afflict the presence of their defense -- they blocked two consecutive attempts at the shaded area, Lito Dula, Team Black's head coach, was taunting at the top of his lungs on the bench. The game was momentarily stopped as commissioner Armel talked to both coaches of the teams to get rid of the trash talking because the heated game might turned out to be ugly and just leave the talking to the fans. The game resumed -- it spelled a man's defensive stand as both teams were not giving up easy baskets as fouls were accumulated towards the final quarter.

4th quarter was aced by the Stallions. The Nodalo trio started to contribute significantly; Asi Nodalo were starting to hit his post up shots, defensive guard Buboy Nodalo was making it hard for the backcourt players of the Team Black and hence shared a handful of assists, and JR Nodalo manoeuvered and scored an 'its over' drive over the Team Black's defense which was the nail to the coffin. A collective effort of the Stallions were greatly shown as they made the defending champions tapped out at the final strech of the ball game.

Numero uno!

It was 92-82 win for the Dela Fuente Fighting Stallions, the team took the throne at the 1 spot, guaranteed with a twice to beat advantage at the up coming final four.