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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
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Bacolod sprinters
leave rivals behind
CAUAYAN BOY NAILS THIRD GOLD
BY CEDELF TUPAS
Richmar Villaluz, the boy from Cauayan who competes barefooted, seized his third gold medal yesterday to key Area VI's surge, even as two athletes from Bacolod City and another from Escalante completed sprint doubles on Day 2 of the athletics competition of the Palarong Panlalawigan in Bacolod City .
The 12-year-old Villaluz, a sixth grader at Inayawan Elementary School, continued to impress at the University of St. La Salle tracks, grabbing his third victory in the triple jump that all but wrapped up the outstanding athlete award in the elementary boys division.
Area V bet Erma Rose Ganao of Escalante and Bacolod City National High School athletes Ana Marie Jagocoy and Rolando Uberas sprinted their way to the gold in the 200m, after topping the 100m in their respective divisions. 
| Nopsscea NOPSSCEA athletes dominated the swimming events of the Palarong Panlalawigan yesterday at the Panaad pool, harvesting 24 out of the 28 gold medals at stake. Leading the NOPSSCEA charge was Kiefer Piccio who finished the day with four golds -- 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 individual medley, and 4x100 medley relay -- in events for secondary boys while Joshua Balinas duplicated the feat in elementary boys events with four golden marks from 200 freestyle, 200 IM, 4x100 free relay, and 4x100 medley relay. |
| RP swimmers Swimming last night turned in two more golden finishes to emerge as the biggest contributor to the Philippines ' coffers in the 24 th Southeast Asian Games in Thailand . James Walsh shattered the six-year-old SEAG mark in the 200m butterfly mark on his way to a golden finish at the His Majesty the King's 80 th Anniversary Aquatics Center in Nakhon Ratchasima. Walsh clocked 2 minutes, .45 seconds to eclipse the old mark of 2:01.84 set by Malaysia 's Anthony Ang in 2001 in Kuala Lumpur . |
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