By PJTremedal
Tacloban City – With more than 600 athletes from the Zamboanga Peninsula Region billeted at the San Jose National High School, Western Mindanao DepED Regional Director Walter Albos was happy indeed to confirmed that the region’s best were able to show their might against the other competing athletes from all over the country in the Palaro Pambansa opening games betting their counterparts.
Zampen athletes bet their rivals in both the elementary and secondary division. In basketball (Elem) Zampen wins against CAR and in kiddie weight boxing bout. While the secondary boys bet EVRAA in basketball.
Other games such as Chess (B), Football, Sepak Takraw, Softball (G),and Tennis (B & G) in the elementary division, Zampen Region makes it against CAR, CALABARZON, CAVRAA, and CLRAA athletes. Meanwhile in the secondary division Zampen stands out in Badminton (B) against the Ilocano’s, Badminton (G) against CAVRAA and IRAA.
In baseball Zampen batters wins against East Visayan hosts and Basketball (B) that Leyteños will never forget the loss with 90 against 71 in the score. While, in other events, such as Football (B), Table Tennis (B & G) Chess (B & G) the Zampen athletes showed their might. However, some of the games against other teams Zampen athletes who were boosted in both spirit and support from the DepED officials of Region 9 never quit in winning for the second round of events.
As of this writing, Zamboanga Peninsula Region emerged with two gold medals in the boys division as Glenn Pangatungan won the 50m distance (296 points) and the 1/2 FITA round (620 points) in archery. Other winners were winners were: Northern Mindanao’s Elgen Altubar had an easy outing in archery sweeping all four finals disputed in Friday’s 2009 Palarong Pambansa which is being jointly hosted by the Leyte province and Tacloban City.
Altubar, who last year won only a bronze medal in the 50 meter event, this time ruled the 30m (329 points) then added the 50m (274 points) 1/2 FITA round (603 points) and the Individual Olympic (87 points) crowns played at the Sacred Heart Seminary Grounds in Palo, Leyte.
She engaged Central Visayas’ Gelen Roleda in a shoot off for the 50m gold after both archers scored identical 274 points. Altubar registered 8 to beat Roleda’s 6 in the finals.
Altubar will try to complete a sweep of all five events when she leads Northern Mindanao’s bid in the Team Olympic Round.
Western Visayas’ Mar Cris Antolino topped the 30m event (329 points) while defending champion NCR, which also swept the boys’ competition last year, had only a gold medal to show courtesy of Carl Buenaventura’s 105 points in the Individual Olympic round.
Big City, however, continued to dominate the pool even as Western Visayas had a field day in athletics with both disciplines disputed at the Leyte Sports Development Center in Tacloban City. NCR won five of eight events contested to hike its gold medal total to 12 after 22 events.
Johansen Aguilar, who broke three records, added a third gold in the 200m backstroke with a time of two minutes and 13.81 seconds. Dorothy Hong Grace won the girls 200m backstroke (2:28.53); Gabriel Castelo topped the 100m butterfly (1:00.11) while NCR’s 4 x 50m freestyle boys and girls teams ruled their events to complete Big City’s medal haul.
Sharing the spotlight is Delia Angela Cordero, a 13-year-old Cainta Rizal native, who won her third individual gold and fourth overall, with a new Palaro mark in the 100m butterfly.
Cordero, whose elder sister Denjylie, was a former Palaro standout, negotiated the distance in 1:06 to break the 1:07.25 record set by Lynnette Ang in 1998.
Hannah Dato of NCR also eclipsed the said record with a second best 1:06.66 time.
NCR added two more gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics as Noely Figueroa topped the women’s individual all around with 32.95 points. She then joined bronze medalist Yosherich Mabborang’s (32.60) and Myla Rodriguez (32.10) to give NCR the team gold with 97.65 points.
The Men’s Artistic Gymnastics individual and team event title, however, were taken by CALABARZON with Jay Francis Villegas winning the individual with 27.40 and the team posting a combined score of 77.80 points (other news From GMANEWS.TV)
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