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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, January 15, 2007 |
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ASEAN
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thais eliminate
Filipino booters
BY CEDELF P. TUPAS
BANGKOK --- Just three months ago, there was a ray of light over the Philippines campaign in the Asean Football Championships.
With a top-notch striker and a powerful defender at the helm, the Filipinos, backed by the Negrense crowd, produced a swashbuckling three-game winning streak in the qualifying stage at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City.
But the once promising bid has turned into a nightmare
here.
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Negrense pug defending title Negrense boxer Donnie Nietes hopes to retain his World Boxing Organization Asia-Pacific title when he puts it on the line in April at the Victorias City Sports Complex in Negros Occidental. The 24-year-old Nietes, who hails from Murcia, will defend his crown against Tongthailex Por Vorasing of Thailand in a 12-round championship showdown in the minimumweight division. In a press conference at Chowking-Lacson yesterday, Tony "Bidoy"
Aldeguer, a Negrense boxing manager-promoter and owner of the ALA
Boxing Gym in Cebu, said that they will hold the title bout in Victorias
because they want to revive the sport in the province. |
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Pagunsan
misses Bacolold City-born Juvic Pagunsan rallied to a round of 72 Saturday, but proved to be not enough, two days into the $5.1 million Sony Open at the Waialee Country Club in Hawaii. After booking a 75 in the opening round Friday, the 28-year-old
Pagunsan finished with a total of 147 that is seven shots off the
cut in his maiden stint in a US PGA Tour event. Pagunsan, a former
caddy at the Bacolod Golf and Country Club in Binitin, Murcia, struggled
right from the onset of the tournament with six bogeys starting
at the back nine. |
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