February 1 - 15, 2019
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
SPORTS
72nd PAL Interclub returns to Cebu
in Bacolod City.
Canlubang collected
573 points to beat Luisita
by eight. Del Monte Golf
Club was a poor third with
549 points.
The Philippine Airlines (PAL)
The other division champions
Interclub golf team championships
last year were Cebu Country
return to Cebu City late this month
Club in Founders, Alta Vista in
with Manila Southwoods and
Aviator, Rancho Palos Verdes in
Canlubang defending their regular
Sportswriters and South Bay of
and seniors crowns, respectively.
Los Angeles in Friendship.
Four courses will be used in the
Senior teams are expected to
two-week long event with the 33rd
fly in on Feb. 24 for the three-day
edition of the seniors tournament
practice rounds.
kicking off on Feb. 27 at Alta Vista
The seniors event adopts the
Golf Club and at Club Filipino de
Molave scoring system which
Cebu.
awards 3 points for par. An even-
Last year, Canlubang held off
Luisita to regain the seniors crown par
score
is worth 54
points.
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team is allowed to field as many as
four players per round with the top
three scores to count. Each player
is limited to two rounds of play.
The 72nd PAL Men’s Interclub,
on the other hand, fires off on
March 6 at the Cebu Country Club
and the Mactan Island Golf Club.
Manila
Southwoods
overwhelmed the field last year
with a record 551 points, 41 points
ahead of Luisita. Canlubang placed
third with 502 and Del Monte fourth
with 469.
Regular teams can field five
LVPI President Peter Cayco
said national coaches Shaq Delos
Santos (women’s) and Dante
Alinsunurin (men’s) now have a
‘good problem’ at their disposal
in the wake of the large number
of players who showed up and
signified certified their intentions
to play for flag and country.
Even more surprisingly was the
attendance for the men’s squad held
over the weekend at the University
of the East and supervised by Rod
Roque, the director in-charge for
the men’s Philippine team.
“The two-day try-outs for
the women’s national team
were very good. All the players
we were expecting arrived and
attended,” said Cayco. “Now for
the men’s volleyball team try-outs,
nagmukhang miniscule ‘yung sa
women’s because a total of 85
attended the try-outs for the men’s
volleyball team. We’re very happy, SEA Games was in 2005 when the
country also hosted the biennial
meet.
The LVPI is leaving nothing to
chance anew with the multi-sports
event to be held here again after
14 years.
A similar team will also
be formed in beach volleyball
competitions, two men’s and two
women’s squads.
“‘Yung beach volleyball ngayon
pa lang kami magmi-meet for
the coaching staff selection,”
said Cayco. “Sana podium din,
although mas confident ako sa
indoor kasi nakikita ko at naa-
assess namin ng maayos. ‘Yung
beach volleyball siguro after the
tryouts maybe we can give you the
fearless forecast.”
Try-outs for the beach volleyball
teams will be made in two weeks’
time after the coaching staff is
29
players per round with the top four
scores counting.
The PAL scoring system will be
used. A par is worth 2 points which
translates to 36 points for players
who matched par.
The new golf rules will take
effect, according to tournament
director Henry Arabelo.
“Hopefully, the new rules will
speed up play,” Arabelo said.
Nearly 200 teams are expected
to take part in the twin events. These
include squads from the United
States, Canada and the Middle
East. (PAL communications)
PH volley teams eye SEAG medals
the LVPI is very happy.”
Judging by the number of
players who showed up gives the
volleyball federation the optimism
of at least winning a medal in the
volleyball events of the SEA Games
scheduled Nov. 30 to Dec. 11.
“Podium finish ‘yan for the men’s
and women’s. Kulay na lang ang
pag-uusapan,” announced Cayco
at the Philippine Sportswriters
Association Forum on Tuesday
at the Tapa King Restaurant at
Farmers Plaza in Cubao.
“But we’re confident kami na
podium finish,” added the LVPI
president in the session presented
by San Miguel Corporation, Tapa
King, and the Philippine Amusement
and Gaming Corporation.
Cayco mentioned powerhouse
Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam
to crowd out the host country for
the podium finish.
The last time a Philippine
volleyball team won a medal in the
Chess launch move for
inclusion at 2024 Olympics
The governing body for chess
launched a campaign on Tuesday
for the game to be included at the
2024 Paris Olympics.
The
International
Chess
Federation (FIDE) called for faster
formats of traditional chess, called
rapid and blitz, to be included on
the Olympic program.
FIDE said in a
statement that the
game of chess has
a “genuine global
appeal” and that it
has 189 national
federations
and
600 million people
who practice chess
globally.
The International
Olympic Committee
recognized chess as a sport in 1999
and a year later it was an exhibition
event at the Sydney Olympics.
A bid by chess officials to
be included in the 2020 Tokyo
Olympics failed.(abs-cbn news)
chosen.
Meanwhile, the list of the 20-
man pool for both the men’s and
women’s national teams shall be
submitted by the coaching staff
to the LVPI anytime this week,
according to Cayco.
“I don’t want to pre-empt the
coaching staff, but I think what
they saw, yung wish list nila nandun
both in the women’s and the men’s
team,” he said. (MT sports)
By: Julian Ray Fortaleza
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