Edmund Esguerra delivered the game-tying single and Arvin Cirunay had an rbi-double to drive home the go-ahead run as Team Cronus scored six runs in the decisive seventh inning against Team Crius' shaky relief pitching, then held off another Crius rally to win their third game of the 2002 Titans Series, 10-8 last Sunday at the Marist Field in Marikina. The win enabled Cronus to sweep the first round of the Series and earned it the top seed for this Sunday's playoffs, awaiting the loser of Saturday's game 6 between Team Uranus and Crius. For the second straight day, Team Cronus won in their final at-bat. Just the day before, Jun Veloso and Maynard Ocampo each went 3 for 3 with Veloso scoring the game-winner on Ocampo's walk-off hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth as Cronus edged Team Uranus, 9-8 in rain-soaked weather.

Team Cronus jumped off to a quick 4-0 lead in the first, highlighted by run-scoring doubles from Joseph Orillana and Jeff Rebustillo off Crius starter Joe Quiogue. Team Crius got three back in their half of the first on rbi-singles by Jeff Rodriguez and Joe Quiogue, and a bases-loaded walk by Eugene Dajac off Cronus' Herbert Salvador. Salvador and Quiogue then settled down and Crius got another three scoreless innings from Em Fernandez as both teams swapped zeros on the board until Team Crius reached Nesty Leyson to tie the game in the fifth. Jon De Ubago led off with a single, stole second and third, then scored on Salvador's fielding error. Crius went ahead in the sixth on back-to-back rbi-doubles from Vincent Lazatin and Eric Cuisia.

The game unraveled for Team Crius in the seventh when it sent three pitchers to the mound as Cronus managed six runs on three hits, three hit batsmen, an error, a wild pitch, two passed balls and five stolen bases for a 10-6 lead. Crius, which had rallied for a draw in their opening game, tried to mount another comeback in the bottom half of the inning when Vince Alimurung reached on Chad Garcia's two-out throwing error, allowing two-runs to score. Cirunay then closed the game by getting Quiogue on a called third strike, striking out the side in the process for the save.

ATLAS 13, URANUS 3
Team Atlas got stellar pitching and displayed its offensive prowess to win their first game of the 2002 Titans Series with a 13-3 beating of Team Uranus, which also committed a Series high 10 errors. Santi Ledesma went 4 for 5 and scored two runs, Migs Zuluaga went 3 for 5, drove home three and scored another two, and Sky Rosales went 2 for 5 with an rbi and two runs scored to pace Atlas' 14-hit attack. Rajah Singh also went 2 for 3 with an rbi and a run scored, and Dick Semilla scored twice and recorded his Series leading 7th stolen base for Atlas. Dino Lising pitched two scoreless innings and also had two rbi in the rout. Joey Carillo scattered four hits in relief, allowing only Leslie Suntay's solo homer, and walked thrice while scoring two runs as well. Atlas meets the winner of Saturday's game 6 between Team Crius and Uranus in Sunday's playoffs.

For Team Uranus, which lost for the second straight day, it was just one of those days in the ballpark as Atlas chased four pitchers and took advantage of sloppy fielding in the Series' most lopsided game thus far. Suntay's three hits and Jeff Nolasco's two hits paced an otherwise anemic Uranus offense.