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Cesafi 12th season opens today

28 Jul

The 12th season of the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi). opens today with high school and college basketball match-ups between the University of San Carlos (USC) and the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R).  The opening game at 4:30 will pit the Baby Warriors and the Baby Jaguars while their college counterparts will be featured in the main game at 6pm at the Cebu Colisuem.

Before the cage wars start, the CESAFI will select this year’s Ms. CESAFI.

The 2012 CESAFI college basketball tournament while have 7 teams while 9 teams will battle for the high school title. The defending champions are the University of Cebu (UC) Webmasters for college while the University of the Visayas Baby Lancers for high school.

UC will have a less than stellar line-up compared to last year as center Junmar Fajardo have moved on the San Miguel Beer squad in the Asean Basketball League after completing all his years of eligibility in the CESAFI. The other schools have recruited foreigners to reinforce their line-ups. The Southwestern University (SWU) Cobras will add Benoit Mbala to its formidable frontline that has fellow Cameroonian Justine Aboude. Perennial contenders University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers signed up Steve Cedrick Akomo to man the slot. Filipino-Chinese guard Stephen Que will debut with USC today.  Legendary Warrior Julian Macoy will make his coaching debut for USC. Macoy was know for scoring a record 126 points for USC in his playing days.

All teams will play each other once in the elimination round. The team with the top record after the round-robin gets an automatic semifinal spot while the 3 other spots will be decided via play-off.

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Residents say NO to Guadalupe split

28 Jul

The people of Guadalupe, Cebu City has been spoken. With 67% percent of those who voted saying “No!”, the results  gave a resounding message to the politicians and the leaders who campaigned for the enactment of Republic Act (RA) 9905 of then Congressman and long-time Guadalupe resident Antonio Cuenco. The plebiscite had an underwhelming 42.5% voter turnout with 8,107 voters siding with “No” while only 3,990 wanting Cebu City’s biggest barangay to be split up.

It was a big victory for the incumbent officials led by barangay Michael Gacasan.  Former Guadalupe village chief Eugenio “Jing-Jing” Faelnar also voted for No. Bill author Antonio Cuenco was disappointed with the outcome but he accepted the decision of the residents.  Mayor Mike Rama who was a big supporter of the creation of the new Barangay Banawa-Englis failed to vote as he was outside the country.  Another happy observer was Labangon Barangay captain Victor Buendia who would have become a resident of the new barangay had the “YES” side won.  Former Mayor Tomas Osmena and wife Margot Osmena decided not to vote even if they were residents of the barangay because they wanted the people to decide for the fate of Guadalupe.  When asked for a reaction with the result, Osmena said that the result showed that Rama and Cuenco have little influence on the people of Guadalupe.

Some observers believed that Osmena was playing safe as he is afraid to create enemies with an election coming in less than 10 months.  We will not know if indeed the plebiscite have some effect on the May 2013 polls but as early as now, the opposing camps can use what happened as canon fodder for the coming election campaigns.

 

 

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2012 UAAP Senior’s Basketball: Slaughter leads Eagles to victory over Archers

28 Jul

 

For the first time in history the SM Mall of Asia Arena hosted Philippine collegiate sport’s biggest rivalry yesterday. The arena was filled with throngs of green and blue as the De La Salle University (DLSU) Green Archers and the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Blue Eagles had their first basketball match in the 75th Season of the UAAP. Ateneo paraded the same core that the dominated the competition last year led by former University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancer Greg Slaughter, Season 74 Finals MVP Nico Salva, and Super Sophomore Keifer Ravena. DLSU ushered the debut of blue chip recruit Jeron Teng and controversial transferee former CIT Wildkitten/CEC Dragon Mark Jayven Tallo to the historic rivalry.  In the end, the Big 3 of the Blue Eagles were just too much for the Archers to get the first win at the MOA Arena in the storied Ateneo-La Salle rivalry as Ateneo won, 71-61.

Ateneo blitzed La Salle from the get go as they  prevented a field goal from the Archers in 7 of the 10 minutes in the first period. The Blue Eagles led 20-8 after the first quarter with Ravena matching La Salle’s score with 8 points of his own. LA Revilla led a 16-10 rally to trim the lead half, 24-30, with less than 4 minutes left at the half.  Ateneo, however, made a 7-2 run capped by a lay up by Slaughter at the buzzer for 9 point lead at the half.

La Salle finally made a big move in the 3rd period as they outscored the Eagles 24-18 to trail just by 3 going to the final 10 minutes of the game. Teng, Revilla, and Norberto Torres conspired to start the third period with 16-7 run to know the game at 42-all. The next few plays led to 5 lead changes but at the end of the quarter, Ateneo managed to eke out 3 point advantage, 53-50 behind the efforts of Ravena.

At the start of the 4th period, Ateneo showed their inside strength with Slaughter and Salva scoring 4 points each in a 9-3 run to being the lead to 9 at 62-53. La Salle tried to rally once more to close the gap to four at 64-60 with less than 3 minutes left of the game.  The Arches, however, crumble at crunch time managed to score only a solitary point the rest the way to end up in a losing of a 71-61 match.

Ateneo’s Big 3 got the lion’s share of the points as Slaughter, Ravena, and Salva had 52 of the 71 Ateneo points. La Salle was led by Revilla’s 16 while Rookie Teng added 13 markers. Mark Tallo had 0. Former Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology standout Jarelan Tampus finished with 1 point with La Salle. Former Don Bosco Technology Center stalwart Christopher “Oping” Sumalinog went scoreless for the Eagles.

With the win Ateneo leapfrogged La Salle from the standings as the Eagles improved to 3-1 while dropping the Archers to 2-2.

The scores:

ADMU 71: Slaughter 20, Salva 16, Ravena 16, Chua 6, Tiongson 4, Elorde 3, Buenafe 3, Pessumal 2, Erram 1, Sumalinog 0, Gonzaga 0

DLSU 61: Revilla 16, Teng 13, N Torres 11, Dela Paz 7, Manguera 6, Van Opstal 2, Andrada 2, Webb 2, Mendoza 1, Tampus 1, Paredes 0, Vosotros 0, T Torres 0, Gotladera 0, Tallo 0

Quarter scores: 20-8, 35-26, 53-50, 71-61

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