Sports

Double champions St. John’s Institute will get another chance to add titles to its collection when the 2nd conference of Basketball Coaches Ass’n of Negros open developmental league opens on June 29 here in Bacolod City.

Three categories__ Bulilit (10 Under), aspirant and high school, will be offered as a pre-NOPSSCEA presentation organized by the coaches association and sponsored by Condura through Bing Soyao,adviser of Basketball Unified Sports Group.

Due to popular demand, in-school and out-of-school kids born in 2003 and 2004 will showcase their skills in the modified passerelle system. A team is required to be composed of 9 players born in 2003 and another 9 in 2004. Entry fee is P300 per participant.

Newly-elected Your Basketball Athletic Club (YBAC) president Edwin Fregil, on Saturday said that he is looking forward to further strengthen the organization under his term.

He stressed that he will be pushing to update their member’s status including their respective financial obligations, if any.

"We have to determine who among our members have yet to settle their financial dues to the club. If they can’t settle it, we will inactivate them but once they have able to resolve it, then we can reactivate them," Fregil said.

The city of Bacolod and the province of Negros Occidental is likely to forge a strong tie for progress which is beneficial to all. It is a good move by Bacolod City mayor-elect Monico O. Puentevella to make an audience with re-elected Governor Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr., and proposed a good relation as both will really benefitted from it. As both promises to bring opportunities for Bacolod and the province to their constituents is laudable no one ever did before while both erected their structures or edifice as seat of their governance.

Both are not new to each other as members of the House of Congress and they have one in common. Four big projects for Bacolod which Puentevella suggested will also beneficial to the province. As I see it, Bacolod City and the Province of Negros Occidental would be a strong power in Sports in the country as both have one thing in common –the Love of Sports where Unity is one of its main thrust and concept. Thanks to former Philippine Sports Commission commissioner Eric Loretizo who may have a hand in such a wonderful and historic ties of the city and the province.

The 4th annual VMC Chairman’s Cup Golf Tournament is slated, June 24 to 25, 2013 at the historic and picturesque Vicmico Golf and Country Club (VGCC) in Vicmico Compound, Victorias City.

Tee-off is at 8:00 am of June 24 while the awarding night will be on June 25 at 6:30pm at the VGCCPavilion Hall.

Father’s Day was a cause for celebration for NHOJs Sportswear and PESO Bays Club as both underdogs clobbered favorites Deding’s Eatery and Negros Basketball Group on Sunday at newly-painted Po Hang gym of Bacolod Tay Tung High School.

The ex-La Sallians in NHOJs uniform surprised and gifted themselves with a 123-97 victory over the Food Masters. It was the former Stingers first and only win after 6 games but it shoved them straight against number 1 Sharp in the semi final at 1 p.m. on June 23.

Playing coach Rey Salido’s gang, likewise, took the role of a killjoy as it blasted a depleted NBG lineup, 119-90. Edward Cipriano played for one quarter and left for work while center B. Mondarte was no show for NBG.

Defending champion Dynamic Builders FC and reigning runner-up Ceres FC routed their respective rivals to share an unblemished record of 3-0 in the ongoing 2nd Conference in the North Football League played over the weekend at the Ayala North Point pitch.

The raging offensive attacks from the Dynamic side stunned Las Buenas FC defense with Russell Nene’s opening goal in the early 14th minute as Noel de Oca hit the back of the net in the 25th minute to give his team a 2-nil advantage.

Dynamic Builders FC player tries to steal the ball.* (H. James G. Toga/NDB)

Sensing the some defensive lapses on LBFC’s defenders, Jaime Poderoso pulled two consecutive goals under his name in the 36th and 40th minute to close the break with a huge 4-nil lead.

Negrense boxers who want to become national and world boxing champions may have their wish come true if they join Manny Pacquiao National Boxing Championship for professional boxers set to stage last week of July.

When contacted, newly elected president of the Association of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines, Inc., (ABAP) Angel "Nonong" Verdeflor, also the province’s Sports Coordinators head and Executive Assistant IV to Governor Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr., said it is possible but first it should be studied and talked about.

LeBron James and company may have lost Game 5 in Texas yesterday but as they say, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over (song by Lenny Kravitz) and Miami will be hosting Game 6 tomorrow, Wednesday. Should the Heat win tomorrow, Miami will still host Game 7 at the American Airlines Arena.

All of the Spurs’ starters waxed hot in Game 5 as Manu Ginobili had a breakout game in the Heat-Spurs championship series by scoring 24 markers on top of 10 dishoffs in 33 minutes of action while starting for Coach Gregg Popovich. San Antonio, however, was anticipated to win yesterday.

The Taekwondo Academy of Bacolod (TAB) Bravehearts has transfer gym to its new location at Chan Sun King Bldg., along Yakal Street, Barangay Villamonte, Bacolod City, besides Bacolod Print Exclusive, Inc.

TAB is mentored by Joem "Bong" Mercurio and Jan Earl Enerlan and has produced consistent taekwondo players in various competitions.

Recently, they win 11 gold medals and 3silver medals in the 56th Silay City charter Day Taekwondo competition but placed runner up behind Hestia- Silay Dragons since the championship was based on the advance category medal wins.

Many things already happened. Now we cannot do it but think that we missed some important "person" to be part of the team. What I mean here was when the Negros First team was formed for the Philippine National Games (PNG), the athletes were either "picked" by their favorite coach who went with the team and not of their training, rather was based on their previous performance in Palarong Pambansa which turned out, they even seem surprise to be included, abnormal, because they seemed to lack proper training. In this case, I cannot question the wisdom of the coach because he knew what he was doing (be it better or worst), but as an observer, they cannot blame us when we say what we are looking at, based on what we observed.

When the Negros First team was sent to compete in PNG, to include boxers, the provincial government set aside budget for them hoping they will excel. But in athletics, only Maika De Oro performed well with boxing getting 4 silvers, three of them from our women team. I was saying this because they missed a potential gold medal performer in athletics in the person of Mary Anthony Diesto. Diesto was already planning to enroll at Negros Occidental High School, a provincial subsidiary school even before the Palarong Pambansa held in Dumaguete City. She wanted to compete in the PNG but no one has taken her. Maybe, the coaches failed to think of Diesto and failed to include in the lineup of their "favorite protegees", maybe thinking there is an allowance when they were included in the list.