University of Sto. Tomas and the surprising Rizal Technological University will start their battle for the championship of the PABA Youth Baseball tournament Saturday afternoon at the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium.
The 1PM match will start the best-of-three championship series between both squads, who took different routes to make it to the title showdown.
The UAAP champion Tigers suffered their lone defeat at the hands of Labandera Tanauan, but won their next six games to take second place after the elimination round. Then, they easily beat De La Salle University in the semifinals, 17-6, last week in only seven innings due to a mercy rule.
RTU, on the other hand, recorded a 4-3 slate and had inconsistent performances in the middle part of the tournament. However, in the semifinals, they wind up to beat the heavily favored Tanauan squad in a unbaseball-like score of 17-10.
As for their meeting in the elimination round, UST won 6-5 held two weeks ago. The Tigers scored all six runs in the second inning while RTU slowly tried to get back in the contest to no avail.
The series will be an interesting one. As far as depth is concerned, UST has several they can rely on, from their fielding, hitting, and most importantly, pitching. The Tigers not only have Jonjon Robles, but can also provide help from Julius Gerona, who started the last two games against DLSU, and Mike Saito.
For RTU, probably their chance of winning here is by attacking early on with their hitting. In their outing against Tanauan, the Technocrats won through their hitting and gave some breeding room to their pitching, and at times, fielding woes.
But, if Joey Sta. Maria or Jerome Bacarisas won’t show some consistency on the mound against the tried-and-tested Tigers, then they could be in for some trouble.
The series could go down as a possible dominated of UST, which could go via a sweep.
For third place, Tanauan and DLSU will battle it out at 9AM.
The 1PM match will start the best-of-three championship series between both squads, who took different routes to make it to the title showdown.
The UAAP champion Tigers suffered their lone defeat at the hands of Labandera Tanauan, but won their next six games to take second place after the elimination round. Then, they easily beat De La Salle University in the semifinals, 17-6, last week in only seven innings due to a mercy rule.
RTU, on the other hand, recorded a 4-3 slate and had inconsistent performances in the middle part of the tournament. However, in the semifinals, they wind up to beat the heavily favored Tanauan squad in a unbaseball-like score of 17-10.
As for their meeting in the elimination round, UST won 6-5 held two weeks ago. The Tigers scored all six runs in the second inning while RTU slowly tried to get back in the contest to no avail.
The series will be an interesting one. As far as depth is concerned, UST has several they can rely on, from their fielding, hitting, and most importantly, pitching. The Tigers not only have Jonjon Robles, but can also provide help from Julius Gerona, who started the last two games against DLSU, and Mike Saito.
For RTU, probably their chance of winning here is by attacking early on with their hitting. In their outing against Tanauan, the Technocrats won through their hitting and gave some breeding room to their pitching, and at times, fielding woes.
But, if Joey Sta. Maria or Jerome Bacarisas won’t show some consistency on the mound against the tried-and-tested Tigers, then they could be in for some trouble.
The series could go down as a possible dominated of UST, which could go via a sweep.
For third place, Tanauan and DLSU will battle it out at 9AM.
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