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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
30
golds at stake
in Palaro today
NEGROS WINS SOFTBALL TITLE
ROXAS CITY --- A walkover win to spark a deluge of victories.
Negros Occidental bagged the elementary girls' softball crown even before the first pitch was thrown as action in the Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association Meet goes full blast today with 30 golds up for grabs at the Villareal Stadium here.
The batters from Education and Training Center School
in Bacolod City gave Negros' bid to dislodge Iloilo in the elementary
division an early boost, winning the softball crown after other provinces
failed to field entries in the event. The title, worth 25 points in
the novel championship point system, gives the Negrenses the headstart
in the duel between the two regional rivals in the six-day meet, featuring
Western Visayas' top school-based athletes. 
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Guv to give incentives Gov. Joseph Maraņon 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, Maraņon 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. |
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'Beach
volley bets The president of the Beach Volleyball Association of the Philippines yesterday expressed confidence that the RP beach volleyball men and women's squads will be among the teams to be sent by the Philippine Olympic Committee to see action in the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar in December. "We are between 80 to 90 percent sure that the beach volleyball players will be able to compete in the Asian Games," Roger Banzuela told the DAILY STAR. In a meeting with the POC Wednesday, Banzuela, who also serves
as the president of the Philippine Volleyball Federation, was given
a copy of the guidelines for the RP squads that will banner the
Philippine contingent in the quadrennial meet. Banzuela, however,
said that the copy of the guidelines is not an assurance that the
beach volleyball spikers will be among the Filipino athletes who
will go to Qatar, but it certainly increases their chances of joining
the delegation. |
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