Patrick Antonio top performer of 2011
Roosterman No. 11; January, 2012
W inning the World Slasher Cup is dream come true to every cocker. Winning back-to-back in one year is a feat beyond expectations. But Patrick Antonio achieved it in 2011. Didn’ t he?
Antonio won the WSC January edition solo. His entry, Sagupaan B50, notched eight wins in a row for a perfect 8 points and simply steamrolled the opposition. Then in the June edition, his roosters took over in representing Spartan DR 1 in the finals. Going into the finals, Spartan DR 1, with registered owner Rey Briones fielding his own warriors had already scored an unblemished 4-win-slate. In the ensuing finals, it was Antonio who took the cudgel for Spartan DR 1 scoring 3 wins against a loss for a total of 7 points enough for a tie for the title with two other entries.
The other two champions were Gov. Ito Ynares fielding Boy Jiao fowl and Rikki Reyes.
The big question was: Did cocking Idol Patrick Antonio score his 5th World Slasher Cup victory to tie the record 5 crowns held by Jun Santiago? This was the whole story:
After Spartan DR-1 of WSC June, 2003 champion Rey Briones barged into the finals with 4 straight wins, the Philippines cocking idol who was eyeing to tie both a sweep of the WSC titles in a year and the 5-WSC crown-record of Jun Santiago, came in the finals fielding his roosters for the Spartan entry.
Spartan DR I took early lead with a win vs. Octagon in fight no. 8. In fight no. 9, PANIQUI-CAT – drew with " OLIVER WRN to keep within striking distance with 4.5. Liberator Rachel Mitzki JU duplicated the Spartan‘ s feat by trouncing AB Jaya BM of Boy Marzo. in fight 25. After the first round in the finals, Spartan DR-1 and Liberator of James Uy were the only remaining teams with 5-0 perfect slates. While the two Panique-CAT teams had 4.5 pts.
In fight 35 Thunderbird dealt the Panique CAT group its first loss in 12 fights. Going into this fight Panique CAT had 5 wins and a draw while Panique CAT-1 had 4 wins and a draw.
Fight 37 saw Liberator suffered its first loss when it bowed to Alyssa Jordan while Spartan scored its six straight win in fight 38 to take solo lead.
Spartan, again fielding a Sagupaan cock, bagged the championship with still a fight to go by winning its 7th assignment against AB Jaya BM of Boy Marzo. Spartan, however, bungled the shot at solo champion when it lost its last fight against Panique CAT-1.
Meanwhile, the other co-champions, NCA Big Event of Ynares and PR Knights Rian of Reyes, rallied from 3-1 standing going into the finals with 4 straight victories.
In fight no. 60 Antipolo JSF bowed to 333 Berjaya Group and lost all hope for as possible tie for the championship. Antipolo was going for its 7 wins in eight fights.
AS Nowitski of Alan Siaco also lost its last fight and missed a share of the title.
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