UAAP baseball game 1 best of 3 c'ship... ZAMORA'S NU VS MUÑOZ'S DLSU CLASH OF TITANS

THERE'S a brewing rivalry in UAAP baseball community. It goes beyond players and coaches.

Team's top brass of University Athletic Association of the Philippines may have some things in common but it's a big difference at the diamond where the 86th Season baseball edition championship crown is at stake.

Team manager Wopsy Zamora of National University Bulldogs and De la Salle University Archers' boss Jose Pepe Muñoz share the same advocacy in regaining the popularity of the sport in the 70's where fans are queueing for tickets at the box-office of historic Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in Malate,Manila.

Baseball runs in the blood of Zamora and Muñoz.The cousins in Lichauco side were sluggers in collegiate leagues before getting the management chores in NU and DLSU accordingly.

Zamora and Munoz, chairman and president respectively in the newly established Liga ng Baseball sa Pilipinas( LBP)- a professional baseball league where games will be held at night to add glamour in the state- of- the- art to be stadium at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex aim to surpass the crowd drawing success in same team sports of basketball and volleyball.

At the UAAP baseball tilt, the big bosses are on a crossroads. It's a clash of the titans between powerhouse title contender NU Bulldogs and defending champion DLSU Archers.

The Bustillos batters will try to end it's 12 year-title drought while the Taft-based sluggers are going for three-peat when they collide at 4pm today in game one best-of -3 championship at the UP Baseball Field in Diliman,Quezon City.

" It's a battle between destiny and dynasty. After over 2 decades of championship drought,our hungrier Bulldogs are destined to bring back the glory in baseball against tne Archers who are seeking 3-peat in this prestigious league,"Zamora said as he urged his Bulldogs to bring home the bacon.

NU's phenomenal coach Romar Landicho who sent the team to the finals in his first stint will be up against LaSalle's head coach Saki Bacarisas who was also the Bulldogs' tactician when they won the UAAP crown back in 2012 against Zamora's alma mater Ateneo, the same team NU booted out in their semifinal match after the Archers showed the door to University of Santo Tomas over the weekend.

While the rivalry in big bosses enthusiasm boil in winning the crown,it is the players and the men at the bullpen will walk the talk where the question remains,will it be hungrier team to dominate power retainer? The answer will start hitting at the diamond today.

ZAMORA

MUÑOZ