 |
| Front Page |
| Negros Oriental |
| Star Business |
| Opinion |
| Sports |
| Police Beat |
| Star Life |
| People & Events |
| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, March 7, 2006 |
|
Sports
|
|
|
47
events lined up
in regional Palaro
BY CHRISTIAN IRL TAN
About 47 events will be played in the 2006 edition of the Western Visayas Regional Athletics Association Meet from March 16 to 21 at the Villareal Stadium in Roxas City, Capiz.
The student-athletes in the elementary level will be vying for top honors in 21 events, while the 26 events are lined up for the competitors in the secondary category.
The events calendared in the elementary hostilities are
the boys and girls' divisions of athletics, badminton, baseball, chess,
gymnastics, lawn tennis, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo and volleyball,
and the boys' football and sipa, and little league softball. Little
league softball, which was not played in the Palarong Panlalawigan in
Bacolod City last year, was only included by the National Department
of Education in the regional meet last month, Nanette Roa of DepEd said.
|
Leonardia
chess Slots in the 2006 National Chess Championship are up for grabs in the Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia Cup chess tournament slated March 23 to 25 at the Bacolod Pavillion Resort and Restaurant in Bacolod City. The Leonardia event that will serve as a qualifying tournament
for the Western Visayas leg of the NCC is open to all non-titled
players in Region VI, national master Rodolfo Toledo, coordinator
of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines-Negros Occidental
Chapter, said. |
|
Dizon
Foundation, CPFN to bid The JRR Dizon Foundation, Inc. and the Chess Players Federation of Negros will bid for Bacolod City to host the 2006 Shell Active Youth Chess Tournament in June or July. The proposed staging of the Shell tournament in Bacolod will mean that more woodpushers from Negros Occidental will be able to compete in the event, Bro. Roly Dizon of the JRRDFI said. Dizon said he will inform the organizers of the Shell chess hostilities
that Bacolod is interested to host the Western Visayas leg of the
event, which has been held in Iloilo City for the past years. |
back to top Star Life | People & Events| Archives | Advertise