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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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RP
cagers'
Olympic bid shattered
BY CEDELF TUPAS
The Olympic dream of Philippine basketball remains as it is: Just a dream.
Using a big second half spurt, Jordan showed the Philippines the door in the Fiba-Asia Championships last night with an 84-76 victory, dashing all hopes of a Filipino crew playing Olympic basketball in Beijing next year.
The
Filipinos, who were aiming to duplicate the feat of the 1972 Philippine Team that
competed in the Munich Olympics, started strong and even seized a 27-18 lead early
in the second period on Jimmy Alapag's trey but they failed to sustain their form,
dropping its second game in three matches. American Rasheim Wright, a naturalized
Jordanian, fuelled the comeback and topscored with 24 points but it was his team's
domination of the boards and the Filipinos' elementary errors that eventually
spelled the difference. 
| LOPTTA
paddlers claim nat'l title The Lopue's Table Tennis Association stamped its class in the 2nd ANDRO Cup National Table Tennis Championships that ended Sunday at the Dr. Enverga University Gym in Candelaria, Quezon. The LOPTTA paddlers bested 24 other squads to claim the national crown, punctuating its domination of the two-day tournament with a 3-1 victory over Killerspin in the finals. Johnard Baldonado clinched the crown for LOPTTA, winning against Leo De Leon, 3-2, in the fourth match, after teammate Isaias Seroņio blanked Michael Motel, 3-0, and Celjun Ortalla trounced Rodel Valle, 3-1. The tie was thrown back into the melting pot when Marrel Lagunday,
who stunned RP No. 1 Yan Yan Lariba, 3-1, of ANDRO A in the semifinals, suffered
a 1-3 defeat at the hands of Jade Jalorin, before Baldonado wrapped up the championship.
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| ABES,
La Salle Andres Bonifacio Elementary School racked up three straight victories Saturday to show the way in the elementary boys' division of the University of St. La Salle-Youth Football Center Development Cup Football Tournament at the USLS pitch. The ABES booters drubbed Felisa, 8-0, before squeaking past Pontevedra, 2-1, and Handumanan, 2-0 to get their campaign off to a flying start. La Salle took the temporary lead in the high school girls' divisions as it blanked Handumanan, 6-0, and tripped St. Michael Academy of Pontevedra, 3-1. In other games, St.
Michael posted the most one-sided win of the tournament so far, beating University
of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, 9-0, after Bacolod Tay Tung High School cruised
to a 2-0 triumph over St. John's Institute. |
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