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Boom! Air Force Launch Six Into Orbit

Romeo Bumagat is playing in only his first Titans League season. With the way things have been going thus far, the league's leading hitter is getting raves as one of the country's premier sluggers.

Last weekend, Bumagat connected for a Titans League record three homeruns in one game to lead Pera Padala's onslaught of Loyola Heights-Ateneo, 16-0. Bumagat, who also had a single and a double, took Blue Eagles right-hander Jun Veloso deep in the first, fourth, and fifth innings, scored six times and drove in five runs to turn in one of the season's best performances at the dish.

His Air Force teammates jumped on the bandwagon as well. Anthony Santos belted his first homerun of the season, a two-run shot, to cap Pera Padala's nine-run first-inning. The airmen added two more in the fourth and five in the fifth to close out the scoring.

Mark Ramirez and Ramil Placides scattered five hits and struck out eight in a combined effort for the Air Force.

In the trailer of Pera Padala's two-game set, Wilfredo Hidalgo had a game for the ages, becoming the second player this season to hit for the cycle and Rommel Maniago clubbed his third homerun of the season as the Air Force hammered Alabang-Makati, 22-0.

Hidalgo had a bases-clearing double and triple in the first as the Air Force batted around twice in the inning, added a single in the third, and launched his first homerun of the season in the fourth. He wound up with a career-high seven rbi's to go with four runs scored.

Olympians starter Jon Delos Santos was the victim of Pera Padala's first inning outburst, giving up 15 runs on 10 hits and four walks.

Meanwhile, Ernesto Binarao and Mark Ramirez limited Alabang-Makati to a pair of singles as the defending champions recorded their fifth shutout in six games. In that span, the Air Force has outscored the opposition 83-4.

OLYMPIANS 10, ATHLETICS 7
Joseph Gardiner drove in four runs including an rbi-double in the fifth inning that broke a 4-4 tie and Alabang-Makati added five more runs before holding off a ninth inning Athletics rally as the Olympians snapped their three-game losing streak with a 10-7 win over Alabang.

Paul Dismal pitched seven solid innings in relief of Olympians starter Jon Delos Santos, whose wildness in the first inning spotted the Athletics an early 3-0 lead after Danny Pagsisihan's sac fly and Ronnie Lugay's two-run single.

The Olympians got one back on Justin Austria's rbi-single in their half of the first. Lito Pulgo's sac fly restored Alabang's three-run lead in the second before the Olympians got their bats going.

Run-scoring singles by BJ Cebrero and Paul Dismal in the third inning cut the deficit to one. Pulgo's wild pitch later in the inning allowed Dismal to cross home with the tying run.

After Gardiner had put the Olympians in the driver's seat in the fifth, Alabang-Makati padded the lead to four on Bacchus Ledesma's rbi-double, an error, and Gardiner's sac fly. Gardiner was at it again in the eighth, stroking a two-run single to make it 10-4.

The Athletics finally touched up a tiring Dismal for three runs in the ninth on an rbi-double by Pulgo, Leslie Suntay's rbi-triple, and a run-scoring groundout but it would be a little too late for Alabang.

METS 19, GOLDEN BEARS 0
Gian Jimenez struck out a league-high eleven over five hitless innings as Manila humiliated Marikina-Marist 19-0. Matt Laurel drove in five runs and CJ Concepcion belted a pair of triples and scored three times to pace the Mets' assault.

METS 16, STARS 15
Manila blew an 11-0 lead after two innings then came from behind to beat Marikina for a wild 16-15 win.

The Stars scored five in the third and stormed ahead with eight in the fourth to take a 13-11 lead. Paolo Jalandoni's rbi-single and Bok Bernardo's sac fly in the fifth pulled the Mets even. German Marcelino's rbi-single in the bottom half of the fifth put Marikina back on top.

Jerwin Fernandez then tied the game on Jalandoni's two-out single in the sixth. Joboy DeMesa, who carried a .143 batting average into the weekend, delivered the eventual game-winner for Manila with a two-run single off Andrew Josef in the decisive seventh frame.