BOLSTERED by its Leg 3 title triumph last Tuesday, Meralco has zoomed to the top of the team standings anew in the PBA 3×3 Season 3 Third Conference.
Gaining the maximum 100 tour points from their second win in the conference, the Bolts jacked up their total to 250 points through three legs to jump to first again after yielding the lead in leg 2.
The quartet of coach Patrick Fran are now tied with MCFASolver, which wrested pole position last week from Meralco after its second leg conquest.
The Tech Centrale wound up third in Leg 3 to keep a slice of the lead.
Despite finishing sixth in Leg 3, Cavitex kept its old spot at No. 3 with 185 points followed by the week’s biggest mover, multi-titled TNT, with 160.
After a pair of disappointing seventh place finishes, the Triple Giga took second behind Meralco to amass 80 tour markers, leapt by three places, and more importantly cracked the top four going to the last three legs of the pre-Grand Finals.
From 11th in the opener and sixth last week, San Miguel Beer continued its rise and reached fifth spot with a close 156 behind TNT.
Blackwater crashed out of the Magic Four and found itself in sixth with 126 points after placing dead last in the third stop.
Purefoods also dropped two places to seventh with 123 followed by Pioneer Elastoseal (103), Terrafirma (95) and Ginebra (81), which likewise fell two rungs lower at 10th.
NorthPort, with 73, remained in the cutoff line of 11th at the halfway point of the conference.
The teams are battling for berths in the conference Big Dance to be given to the top 10 squads at the end of six legs.
