With Mobiline trailing 91-97 going into the final two minutes, Seigle, who appeared to be still far from living up to his billing as this year's top PBA draftee, canned an eight-foot jumper. Santamaria added two free throws and Al Solis scored on a steal off Vince Hizon to forge a 97-97 deadlock, 1:26 remaining. Marlou Aquino broke Gordon's silence with a split charity, 98-97, but this proved to be the Gins' final score. Taking advantage of a mismatch with Dodot Jaworski who saw action during crunchtime, Santamaria nailed a side jumper, 51 ticks remaining, that shoved Mobiline to the driver's seat for good.

As the Gins tried to regroup, Seigle stole the ball from Aquino and then completed his heroics with a two-handed slam dunk for a 101-98 Mobiline lead, 19 seconds left. The dazed Gins had two more inbound errors in the dying seconds, throwing out any chances of recovering. "It's a big win for us," said new Mobiline coach Norman Black. "But I don't think it could be a good indication of our strength, we should just wait till the start of the season." Jeffrey Cariaso topscored for the winners with 26 points including 16 in the initial half which the Cellulars took by 12, 55-23. The exhibition match was billed by the promoters as "preview of the giants" as Seigle and Aquino, two of the PBA's big men, were matched. Aquino scored nine while Seigle had 10 points. However, the 1996 Rookie of the Year managed to block two of Seigle's inside attempts including an empathic rejection that frustrated the 6-8 Fil-Ame- rican's slam dunk attempt early in the fourth period. -NOEL RODRIGUEZ

The Scores:
Mobiline 103 - Cariaso 26, Santamaria 20, Capacio 12, Pumaren 10, Seigle 10, Teng 9, Solis 7, Fran 3, del Rosario 2, Villamin 2, Briones 2.
Gordon's 98 - Hizon 21, Jarencio 19, David 16, Locsin 13, Aquino 9, Ong 9, Cheng 6, de Joya 3, Jaworski Jr. 2, Jaworski Sr. 0.
Quarterscores: 23-23, 55-43, 83-76,103-98.