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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, July 28, 2007 |
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Three Negrenses shut out at 3As
BY CEDELF TUPAS
Three Negrenses missed out on medals Wednesday in the Asian Athletics Association Championships in Amman, Jordan, leaving La Carlota City native Sheena Atilano as the strongest hope for a medal in the four-day event.
Atilano, 27, was scheduled to see action in the women's 100-m hurdles race late yesterday. With her personal-best of 13.65 seconds, Atilano has been installed as the second seed, behind Indonesia's Dedeh Erawati heading into the race.
Cauyan-born
Arniel Ferrera, the Southeast Asian Games hammer throw king, placed eighth among
10 participants in the event with his 55.47-meter effort, which was once again
way off his personal-best and SEA Games mark of 60.47-m. 
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Yap fails to make RP Team Despite his impressive performance in the Jones Cup in Taipei, Negrense pro basketball player James Yap was unable to land a spot in the Philippine Team that starts its bid for an Olympic slot in the Fiba-Asia Championships in Tokushima, Japan today. The line-up submitted by National coach Chot Reyes also left out injured Tony dela Cruz and Ranidel De Ocampo. Apparently, Reyes picked
Talk N Text gunner Renren Ritualo and San Miguel's Dondon Hontiveros over the
Escalante City-born Yap, the PBA Most Valuable Player in 2006. |
| Fil-Am
duo's run snapped The Filipino-American beach volleyball duo Heidi Illustre and Diane Pascua rammed into a bigger and bolder version of themselves, losing in straight sets to Norway's Kathrine Maaseide and Susanne Glesnes in the Round of 32 of the World Beach Volleyball Championships in Gstaad, Switzerland. The Norwegian tandem, seeded 22nd, scored a 21-16, 21-13 victory to turn back Illustre and Pascua in 37 minutes. Maaseide and Glesnes advanced to the Round of 16 against a Chinese pair.
After making history as the first Philippine pair to make the prestigious tournament,
Illustre and Pascua ended their campaign with two victories and two losses. The
Fil-Am pair, however had something to build upon as one of their two wins came
at the expense of highly-rated Australian pair of Natalie Cook and Tamsin Barnett,
20-22, 21-16, 15-13, before they downed Erika Nystrom and Emily Nystrom of Finland,
25-23, 21-15. |
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