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Philippine Showbiz Today
SPORTS
September 8 - 21, 2016
Dream Hoops Academy helps hoop dreams come true
Have you ever dreamed
of playing basketball in the
Philippines? This could be
your chance.
Dream Hoops Inter-
national will be putting to-
gether three teams of local
Filipino allstars to compete
in the Philippines in the
summer of 2017. The Phil-
ippine tour will give local
players a chance to com-
pete against Elite teams
in the Philippines in front
of Collegiate Coaches and
Pro Scouts, while gaining
an invaluable cultural ex-
perience.
This year, Dream
Hoops International will be
holding an open tryout for
a Grade 6&7 team, Grade
8&9 team and a Grade 10-
12 team. The tryouts will
take place at St. Patrick’s
High School on Saturday
September 10 and Sun-
day September 11. Tryout
times will be announced.
Tryout Times
Grades 6&7 – Saturday September 10 @ 10:00am – 12:00pm @ St. Pat’s HS Gym
Sunday September 11 @ 8:00am – 10:00am @ St. Pats HS Gym
Grades 8&9 – Saturday September 10 @ 12:00am – 2:00pm @ St. Pat’s HS Gym
Sunday September 11 @ 10:00am – 12:00pm @ St. Pats HS Gym
Grades 10-12 -Saturday September 10 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm @ St. Pat’s HS Gym
Sunday September 11 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm @ St. Pats HS Gym
REGISTRATION FOR
THE TRYOUTS WILL BE
ONSITE PRIOR TO YOUR
TRYOUT TIME
Registration cost for
tryouts will be $20.00.
Dream Hoops wel-
comes all Elite and as-
piring Filipino basketball
players to attend this try-
out.
Only the very Elite Fil-
ipino players in each age
group will be selected to
the Dream Hoops Interna-
tional Team.
About Dream Hoops
Dream Hoops is one
of the premier basketball
academies in the province
of BC. Dream Hoops also
hosts the Dream Hoops
Development
League,
Vancouver’s largest and
most successful Fall and
Spring basketball league
with over 600 participants
all year round. If you, or
someone you know will be
interested in this great op-
portunity, please contact
Nap Santos at 778-387-
4543 for more details.•
PH chess team in 7th spot after routing South Africa
Grandmaster Eugene
Torre kept his perfect re-
cord with the white pieces
as the Philippines clob-
bered South Africa, 3.5-
0.5, Tuesday in the fifth
round of the 42nd World
Chess Olympiad in Baku,
Azerbaijan and moved into
7th place.
Torre, one of the oldest
participants at 64, opened
with the rarely-played b3,
steered the game into a
positional battle before
stamping his class in the
endgame where his experi-
ence proved too much for
International Master Watu
Kobese.
In another display of
mastery of the rook-and-
pawn endgame, Torre out-
played Kobese in 51 moves
to collect his fourth win in
five straight matches.
It marked Torre’s
strongest start in 23
Soccer
Neil Etheridge made
two crucial saves to help
preserve the Philippine
Azkals’ 2-1 victory over
Kyrgyzstan in their inter-
national friendly match
last Tuesday at the Dolen
Omurzakov Stadium in
Bishkek.
Etheridge saved a
penalty kick shortly before
injury time before coming
through with another stop
in a last-gasp attack by the
Kyrgyzs to draw level as
John Paul Gomez settled
for a draw with IM Daniel
Cawdery in 43 moves in
the second board.
After a two-day rest,
Sadorra returned at the
top board to whip GM Ken-
ny Solomon in 63 moves.
He converted a pawn ad-
vantage to victory in the
endgame.
Barcenilla, on the oth-
er hand, labored through
106 moves before trans-
lating a rook-and-bishop
against rook endgame into
victory against IM Dono-
van Van den Heever in the
last board.
The pawn-less end-
game is theoretically a
draw, but in practice, de-
fense is difficult which Den
Philippine Chess Grandmaster Eugene Torre ageless at 64
Heever found out under
time pressure.
Nice Olympiad apart from and Rogelio Barcenilla also
Den Heever, who gave
two bronze medals.
delivered the points in both up his knight for the lone
Counting his drawn ends of the table while GM pawn, resigned after real-
Olympiad appearances,
lining him up for a pos-
sible fourth individual
medal. He won the silver
at board one in the 1974
game against Costa Rica
Monday, Torre now has
4.5 points, the best score
among the Filipinos.
GMs Catalino Sadorra
izing he would be check-
mated in one.
The win, their fourth,
catapulted the Filipinos
into a share of seventh
spot, still a full point be-
hind co-leaders Nether-
lands, Ukraine, and India.
There are no games
scheduled on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the
Filipinos collide with 12th
seed Norway, the strongest
team they will be meeting
so far.
Meanwhile, the wom-
en’s team whitewashed Ni-
geria, 4-0.
After three straight
draws against higher-
ranked opponents, wom-
an International Master
Janelle Mae Frayna posted
her second win at the ex-
pense of WIM Sabrina La-
treche in 41 moves.•
- Rey Bancod, MB
Undermanned Azkals win over Kyrgyzstan
the Azkals won their only
match of the international
window.
Kevin Ingreso struck
the opening goal for the
Azkals in the 43rd minute
with a powerful left-footed
shot off a free kick by Phil
Younghusband from the
flank.
Misagh
Bahadoran
doubled the lead in the
52nd with a volley inside
the box, but Kyrgyzstan
gave itself a lifeline at the
hour mark on a goal by Vi-
talij Lux.
The Philippines na-
tional football team Azkals
(slang for Asong Kalye,
coloquial meaning ‘street
dog’ or mongrel) is the na-
tional football team of the
Philippines and represents
the country in international
football. The team is con-
trolled by the Philippine
Football Federation (PFF),
the governing body of foot-
ball in the Philippines. Its
current coach is Thomas
Dooley and has UK-born
Phil Younghusband as its
striker since 2006.
The national team has
never qualified for the FIFA
World Cup or the Asian
Cup, despite being one of
the oldest national teams
in Asia since 1913. Its best
finish in a major tourna-
ment was at the 2014 AFC
Challenge Cup, losing to
Palestine in the final.•
- Jonas Terrado, MB Sports