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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Thursday, July 5, 2007 |
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Sports
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Local
cagers to see
action in UAAP tilt
Five players from Negros Occidental, including three who sat out the past school-year to comply with residency requirements, will see action in the men's collegiate basketball tournament of the 70th UAAP Season that tips off Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum.
Former West Negros College Mustangs Sivirino "Nonoy" Baclao, John Blargs Alisbo and Sunny Abaring will part ways in the coming season with Baclao donning the Ateneo De Manila University jersey and Alisbo and Abaring playing for Far Eastern University,
The trio was placed in the freezer last year to follow
a UAAP rule that requires transferees to have a one-year residence before
being allowed to play. 
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Long-term
plan for A long-term plan that includes the hosting of next year's Asia-Pacific Softball Championships is being studied by Bacolod councilor Homer Bais to help address the financial woes of the city's softball teams that qualify for the World Series in the United States. "We need to have a long-term plan because the city government alone cannot send our teams to the US," Bais told the DAILY STAR last night. The councilor said he is proposing the staging of the As-Pac championships
in Bacolod to lessen the financial burden on the local teams that
qualify for the tournament. |
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Late-game
collapse The Philippines crumbled in the fourth quarter for the second straight game, allowing lightweight Japan to come-from-behind to score an 84-82 win yesterday in the 29th William Jones Cup in Taipei. The RP quintet, assembled from the pool of millionaires in the PBA, ran into a maze of errors and missed opportunities, which the Japanese took advantage of with Yusuke Okada finally hammering the final nail on the coffin with his breakaway lay-up with a second left. Okada's game-winning basket came after a double team on Dondon
Hontiveros forced the San Miguel guard to throw a deflected pass
to a Japanese player at half-court. |
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