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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY August 16 - 31, 2016
Coop Sports Fest fosters community spirit
Last Saturday was volleyball tournament finals at the
Foreign Workers Coop Sports
Fest at the Royal Kwantlen
Park in Surrey. That afternoon, trophies were on full
display at the FWC’s number
one tent. The women’s volleyball competition had ended an hour earlier, and most
people were now relaxing and
hanging out, while the men’s
tournament was still going
full bore.
The North Shore Nissan
men’s team was up against
the Pabebe Boys, in what one
called the mother of all cham-
pionship volleyball games, because everyone watching was
holding their breath. The two
teams were evenly matched,
and their scores were tied after the fourth set. You have to
remember, the Pabebe Boys
and the North Shore Nissans
are two of the best teams in
the league.
The battle for the trophy
was incredibly intense. Every
serve, every spike expresses
the players’ desire to dominate the competition. Yet the
friendships between the opposing teams were also amazingly real. They have played
each other in other venues
and in other tournaments.
These men were friends.
There was a lot of friendly
heckling being exchanged,
but there were also high-fives
and fist bumps when someone did a really good job.
In the end the North
Shore Nissans edged the Pabebe Boys out of their first
place position, and took the
championship trophy.
For this year’s FWC
Sports Fest, the Volleyball
Men’s Tournament winners
are: The North Shore Nissans
– Champions; The Pabebe
Boys – 2nd place; the Cool
Raiders - 3rd place.
The Women’s Tournament winners are: The North
Shore Nissan Women’s team
– Champions; The PhilBC
Jousters – 2nd place; The
Cool Raiders Women – 3rd
place.
The Most Valuable Players are Enrique Tacsagon of
the North Shore Nissan’s Men
and Winonah Bagang of the
North Shore Nissan’s Women.
Meanwhile, the invitational basketball games were
played well into the evening,
By Crisanta Sampang
featuring two temporary foreign worker teams, the Abby
Boys, and the Village Farms
Shooters from Delta, playing
with non-TFW players from
Surrey and Vancouver.
The Sports Fest was so
successful in bringing people
together and in building communities of friendships in the
Fraser Valley and in the Lower
Mainland, that everyone was
looking forward to doing it
again next year. Maybe even
a Winter Sports Tournament
– perhaps - the players themselves hopefully suggested.
The FWC Sports Fest 2016 most valuable players, Enrique Tacsagon& Winona Bagan, posing with
FWC CEO Au Ferrera and sponsor Irma Acatillado
Nissan Women’s Team: New Volleyball Champion!
Vancouver, August 28,
2016 — Congratulations to
the Nissan Women’s Team!
Nissan Women’s Team won all
the rounds in the elimination
games against six other
competing women’s volleyball
teams and proudly emerged
as this year’s Champion of
the Fifth Annual Volleyball
Tournament at Slocan Park.
First Place went to
Phil BC-Jousters and the
Second Place went to
Kick My A’s. Each player
in the winning teams got
the Migrante BC volleyball
medal and the certificate of
participation from special
guest Mable Elmore, MLA of
Vancouver-Kensington.
The other participating
women’s
teams
were
WestCoast
Thunder,
WestCoast Power Storm,
WestCoast Warriors, and
Migrante BC.
In the men’s volleyball,
the Nissan Boys won the
Championship with the Men’s
Cool Raiders coming in First
Place.
Migrante BC thanks its
volunteer referees, scorers
and linepersons, as well as all
the participating teams and
their supporters.
The
volleyball
tournament was played in
friendly competition with
many of the players having
competed in the past years
in the annual Migrante BC’s
volleyball tournament since
2012.
Aileen Villeta of the
Migrante BC Volleyball Team
said, “This is a good event to
We are Number One!” Nissan women’s teamà
2016 Migrante BC Volleyball Champion
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mark the end of the summer.
We took a short break to let
the rain pass and while it was
“sweater weather,” everybody,
including the children, had a
good time. “
The
Volleyball
Tournament is organized
by the Migrante BC Sports
and Recreation Committee
and Migrante volunteers and
families.
Phil BC-Jousters - First Place