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Billiards: Alcano, Orcollo, Pagulayan bid in Guinness World Series in Jakarta
MANILA,
July 29 (PNA) -- Former 9-ball and 8-ball world champion Ronato Alcano,
newly-crowned World Pool Masters ruler Dennis Orcollo, two-time national
open champion Lee Vann Corteza and another ex-World 9-ball ruler Alex
Pagulayan, head the crack Filipino contingent seeing action in the 2010
Guinness World Series of Pool-10 Ball Challenge Grand Finale beginning
Thursday and ending on August 1 at the Mall Taman Anggrek in Jakarta,
Indonesia.
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Boxing: Height doesn't matter for Singwancha
MANILA, July 29 (PNA) --
When Thai challenger Wandee Singwancha faces World Boxing Council (WBC)
international superflyweight champ Silvester Lopez, the 5'6" Filipino's
height and reach advantage won't matter.
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Golf: Unson bags Optimist plum in sudden death
MANILA, July 28 (PNA) -- Andie Unson
cracked under pressure in the final round but toughened up in
sudden death, nipping Daniela Darquea of Ecuador in the second playoff
hole to capture the Optimist International Junior Golf Championship
girls’ 14-15 crown at the
PGA National Golf and Resort Club in Palm Beach, Florida Monday.
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Boxing: Thai challenger to cut Lopez “down to size?”
MANILA,
July 28 (PNA) -- Thai challenger Wandee Singwancha will try to cut
Silvester Lopez “down to size” when he challenges the Filipino for his
World Boxing Council (WBC) international super flyweight crown at the
Ynares Sports Center in Pasig City on Saturday.
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Donaire offers help to amateur boxers bound to Asian Games
MANILA,
July 28 (PNA) – Filipino world boxing champion Nonito Donaire Jr.
offered on Tuesday his help to the amateur boxers who are in thick
preparation for the Guangzhou Asian Games in November this year.
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Chess: So resumes match vs Vietnamese in Biel chessfest
BIEL,
Switzerland, July 27 (PNA) -- After a one-day rest, GM Wesley So of the
Philippines resumes his campaign in the 2010 Biel Young Grandmasters
chess championship when he takes on unpredictable GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong
Son of Vietnam in the pivotal seventh round late Monday (Manila time).
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Billiards: Lalic tops California 9-ball tourney
MANILA,
July 27 (PNA) -- Daley-City based Filipino billiards player Allen Lalic
defeated American Mike Peregov, 9-2, Sunday in the finals cop the 2nd
World Professional Pool Association 9-Ball shoot-out at the California
Billiards in Mountain View, California, USA.
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Golf: Unson seizes lead in Optimist Int’l Jr. Golf
MANILA,
July 27 (PNA) -- Andie Unson continued to flash fine form, firing a
one-under 71 to wrest a one-stroke lead over Hawaii’s Eimi Koga in the
second round of the Optimist
International Junior Golf Championship at the PGA National Golf and
Resort Club in Palm Beach, Florida Sunday.
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Golf: Unson gains low medal in US Women’s Am elims
MANILA,
July 26 (PNA) -- Philippine lady golfer Andrea Unson put in a
near-flawless round of four-under par 68 to emerge the low medalist in
the US Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifier at the Brookside Country Club
in Stockton, California during the weekend.
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PSA: Cojuangco, Garcia head forum guests on Tuesday
MANILA,
July 26 (PNA) -- Two of the country’s top sports officials join in
sending off the entire Team Philippines to the Youth Olympic Games in
this week’s session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA)
Forum at Shakey’s U.N Avenue on Tuesday.
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