were on top of the team standings with seven wins and two losses, followed by Magnolia Juice Drinks (6-3), national senior's champion Lhuillier-Converse, MIESCOR and YCO were all tied with five wins and four losses. Sta.Lucia and Purefoods dispute the last quarterfinals seat, the Realtors prevail over the Food Masters, 93-89 on June 8. The six-team quarterfinal round had their carry-over records minus the results of their games against the other four teams eliminated. RFM-Swifts will have a 4-1 card, MIESCOR with three wins and two losses, Magnolia, Lhuillier, YCO and Sta. Lucia with two wins and three losses. Swifts and MIESCOR, both with six wins and four losses, makes it to the four-team semifinal round, along with YCO (tied with Magnolia and Sta. Lucia at 5-5 but made it via quotient system), Lhuillier-Converse were eliminated at 3-7. The Juice Drink Makers completed the cast with a 92-83 win over the Realtors in their playoff on June 24. In the two-round semifinals, RFM-Swifts and YCO finish with identical 4-2 won-loss slates and will have a repeat title-clash. Magnolia (3-3) and MIESCOR (1-5) will play for third place. The YCO Shine Masters exact revenge over RFM-Swifts, which had no outside help this time, via 3-0 sweep in their best-of-five finals series. Magnolia won third place despite losing the third game against the Builders as they led their own series, two games to one. Philippine Cup A special tournament called Philippine Cup was held from August 3 to 10, featuring the Philippine men's national team, coach by Joe Lipa and sponsored by Philips Sardines, a PABL selection carrying the brand Rebisco, the US NCAA Selection sponsored by Swifts, Shanghai from China and a team from Egypt. The US NCAA all-stars and the PABL-Philips played in the best-of-three finals following the nationals' 95-83 win over the Americans. Swift's-USA, PABL-Philips and Egypt ended the round with similar 3-1 slates but the Filipinos took the second finals slot over the Egyptians via a better FIBA goal average. Swift's-USA won the Philippine Cup title with a 2-1 series victory over PABL-Philips. After losing Game One in a fight-marred game, the Americans won the next two games by a big margin over the RP nationals. Maharlika Cup Following the disbandment of YCO Shine Masters and Lady's Choice and with Mama's Love not taking part of the league's last offering of the season, seven teams were left to