Negros Occidental hopes to continue its dominance in the Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association Meet, which begins Thursday in San Jose, Antique.

The Negrenses are defending champions in both the elementary and secondary divisions of the March 13-17 meet that aims to determine the Western Visayas representatives for the Palarong Pambansa next month in Puerto Princesa, Palawan.

With the games held in Bacolod, Negros Occidental proved too strong for perennial rival Iloilo, running away with the high school title with an impressive tally of 465 points under the Department of Education’s scoring system that gives 25 points for ballgame titles, 30 for each athletics and swimming crown and 15 for winners in minor events like badminton, table tennis and lawn tennis.

The Negrenses bagged the boys and girls’ volleyball, basketball, sepak takraw, baseball, softball, boys’ athletics, boys and girls’ swimming, lawn tennis, badminton, gymnastics, girls’ table tennis, boys’ taekwondo and boxing last year.

Those wins gave Negros a 110-point advantage over Iloilo (355 points) at the end of the six-province meet.

The outcome was much closer in the elementary division, where Negros collected 363 points to win the title ahead of Iloilo with 336.5.

The Negrenses will also defend their elementary swimming, athletics, baseball, badminton, softball and taekwondo titles.

The other delegations seeing action in the regional meet are Capiz, Aklan, Antique and Guimaras.

Antique is hosting the regional Palaro for the first time since 2004.*CPT

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