6 games in CUSA today

Defending champion University of Assumption-Pampanga and Trinity College part ways today in the featured match of a heavy six-game schedule in the 2002 CUSA basketball tournament at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

The Pelicans, who won over Technological Institute of the Philippines in the opening day, will again bank on the high-leaping tandem of Randy Magpayo and Alexander Bognot, and Marvin Yambao.

Gunners Visnu-Das Javier and Michael Kong, meanwhile, are expected to carry the fight for Trinity, which beat Central Colleges of the Philippines in the opener.

In the curtain-raiser, De La Salle-Araneta University and host Central Colleges of the Philippines try to barge into the win-column in their 9 a.m. encounter followed by the St. Jude College and De Ocampo Memorial College clash at 10:30.

Afternoon matches pit TIP against four-time champion Manuel L. Quezon University at 12 p.m., Philippine Maritime Institute against Philippine College of Criminology at 1:30 p.m., and Metro Manila College against debuting PATTS School of Aeronautics at 3 p.m.

Aside from UA-P and Trinity, the other opening day winners are St. Jude, PMI, MLQU and idle Las Piñas College.