Gov. Joseph Marañon yesterday said that he will give cash incentives to the Negros student-athletes who will snare medals in the on-going Western Visayas Regional Athletics Association Meet at the Villareal Stadium in Roxas City, Cadiz.

The athletes who will grab gold, silver and bronze medals will receive cash incentives from the Provincial Government, but the amounts have yet to be specified, Marañon said.

The Provincial Government has already allotted the incentives for the Negrense competitors because it foresees that we will become the overall champions, he added. Negros snatched the overall title in the secondary division of the regional meet in Iloilo City last year, while archrival Iloilo brought home the overall crown in the elementary category.

The last batch of the Negros contingent, composed of 50 athletes and coaches, left for Roxas City yesterday with Vice-Gov. Isidro Zayco and board members Edgardo Acuña, Manuel Frederick Ko, Francis Gerard Tuvilla, and Emilio Yulo III.

Marañon said that Zayco and the other board members will cheer and help in the supervision of the athletes during the regional school-based competitions.*CIT

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