TAGAYTAY - La Salle racked up the needed points in just 10 matches, scoring five and cruising to a 6-point win over Ateneo for its third straight victory in the La Salle-Ateneo Match Play at Tagaytay Highlands here yesterday.

The Eagles took the singles matches, 10.5-7.5, but the 9-point lead the Archers built through two days of solid play and superb teammanship proved too much for the Loyola-based squad to overcome.

TAGAYTAY CITY, Philippines -- Ateneo de Manila University took the final battle, but a victory in the singles matches could not prevent De La Salle University from winning the war.

The Ateneo Blue Eagles scored a 10.5-7.5 victory over the La Salle Archers in the final-day singles of their Ryder Cup-style match play Friday and all they could do was make the scores closer than they were overnight, 24-18.

TAGAYTAY – La Salle racked up the needed points in just 10 matches, scoring five and cruising to a six-point win over Ateneo for its third straight victory in the La Salle-Ateneo Match Play at Tagaytay Highlands here yesterday.

The Eagles took the singles matches, 10.5-7.5, but the nine-point lead the Archers built through two days of solid play and superb teamwork proved too much for the Loyola-based squad to overcome.

HOW one team will surprise the other will be known beginning today when the best shotmakers from Ateneo and La Salle square off at the start of the highly anticipated La Salle-Ateneo Match Play 2007 at Tagaytay Midlands.

THE best shotmakers from De La Salle and Ateneo see action in the much anticipated La Salle-Ateneo Match Play 2007 which starts Wednesday at the Tagaytay Midlands.

“Our friends in the other side are in for a big surprise,” said Ateneo skipper Teboy Javier on the eve of the Ryder Cup-style event, a rivalry so intense that both schools had to tap the best talents in their respective camps to ensure victory.

The epic rivalry between De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University will be elevated to another level as they vie for prestige and golf supremacy in the 2007 La Salle-Ateneo Match Play at the scenic greens of Tagaytay Highlands starting Dec. 19.

The tournament features 18 of the finest golfers from both schools using a Ryder Cup-style format for team and individual match play competition. There will also be six foursome matches and six fourball matches on the first and second days and 18 single matches in the final day on Dec. 21.

The annual La Salle-Ateneo golf duel was touted to be a battle among men. Chiefly, the Green Archers versus the Blue Eagles.

ALREADY displaying its dominance on the hardcourt during the last four years, LaSalle seems to be setting its sights on establishing another dynasty as it clinched its second consecutive victory over arch-rival Ateneo, 119-94, in the 15th La SalleAteneo Golf Classic at the Canlubang Golf and Country Club.

Although more players from Ateneo showed up (295 to La Salle's 245), the Green Archers proved once more that they were better on the golf course than the Blue Eagles.