Cadiz City

Cadiz City will celebrate its 39th Dinagsa Festival to include withhighly competitive sports activities in different venues as part of the city’s sports tourism.

In the list was Airsoft Shootfest held last January 12 at Philippine Normal University (PNU) quadrangle and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Basketball League championship at the Don Bernardo Benedicto Covered Court last January 13.

Set to be held on January 18, the 2nd Mayor Patrick Escalante Motocross at the Reclamation Area and on Saturday, January 19, the opening of 1st Mayor Patrick G. Escalante Badminton Tournament at the Multi-Purpose Hall with Philippine Badminton Association (PBA) secretary-general 3rd District Congressman of Negros Occidental Albee Benitez to grace the activity. The other sports events will be the Battle of Muscles 2013 with Jammer Fitness Gym organizing at the DBBCC, and continuation of the Motocross.

Six more suspects in the alleged killing of an army officer in an NPA-Army encounter in Cadiz City, about two years ago, were added to the original list of alleged suspects purportedly belonging to the New People’s Army (NPA) and who declared they were innocent of the trumped-up charges, saying all of them are leaders of peaceful, legal organizations belonging to various sectoral groups.

The six declared their innocence and the fact that they were victims of trumped-up charges filed by the former City Prosecutor of Cadiz, who has since retired from various service and who did not even inform them they were facing murder charges for the alleged death of an army officer, named 1st Lt. Archie Polenzo.

CADIZ CITY- Cadiz City sends in three of its players out of the 35 who placed in the top ten, but it was the 8-year-old chess whiz from Sta. Barbara, Iloilo who stunned his opponents by sweeping his match in the boys’ under-10 category in the 2013 National Age-Group Chess Championships, Visayas Qualifying Leg held at the Multi-Purpose Hall here that ended Saturday afternoon and advanced to the grand finals.

Gil Casa, Jr., an 8 year-old pupil of Sta. Barbara Central Elementary School, the other sibling of parents Delilah and Gil, Sr., competing in the qualifying leg, earned 6 straight points beating local bet here Vince Divinagracia in round 6 to rule the boys’ under-10 category. His older sister, Glydelle, 11 got 3 points and placed eighth overall in girls under-14 & 12 category topped by Sagay City’s Natori Biazza Diaz who earned 5 points.

Many times age-group chess champion Valerio Mangubat of Canlaon City and upcoming Cadiz City chess player Jan Danielle Magalona were the only two survivors out of 30 chess players that played against Grandmaster Jayson Gonzales in a simultaneous chess match at the opening of 2013 National age-Group Championship, Visayas leg here.

The match ended for about three hours starting at 9am at the Multi-Purpose Hall here.

Gonzales commended the two with their strong stand against him and sees chances of their potentials to emerge in the future among other aspirants in the game of chess.

Gonzales said, one concept of National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) is to discover young potentials to represent the country in the future international chess competitions. He, however, cautioned local organizers of holding tournament to register in the NCFP in order to recognize their tournament and the players can have their ELO ratings.