Tagbilaran City – The Private Schools Athletic Association (Prisaa)-Cebu showed its dominance in the Prisaa-7 Regional meet after scoring convincing wins yesterday in different venues here.
Spearheading Prisaa-Cebu’s rampage was its swimming team, which swept all gold medals at the Tirol swimming pool.
The Prisaa-Cebu tankers plucked all 14 gold medals at stake yesterday as organizers decided not to hold any more of the remaining 14 events due to lack of competition.
The Cebuano tankers who bagged golds in their respective divisions were USC Warriors Keith Ocampo (200-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle events), Cynth Jude Goden (100m breaststroke), Ruliben Deligero (50m breaststroke), Karmel Ocampo (50m breaststroke), Loren Dale Echavez (50m freestyle), Myles Chi (50m backstroke), Mikael Llorente (50m, butterfly), John Beltran (50m freestyle) and Lorenzo Abello (200m Individual Medley).
Prisaa-Cebu’s 4×50 Medley Relay team of Goden, Deligero, Ruliben Tungala and Lorenzo Abello and the 4×50 Freestyle Relay team of Bryan Inamarga, Lorenzo Abello, Myles Chi and John Beltran also won golds together with University of Cebu Webmasters’ Bethmay Arellano, who topped the women’s 50m butterfly event.
The scenario was also the same in athletics after the Cebuano tracksters almost swept all golds if not for the single gilt Bohol-Prisaa won in the men’s shot put competition at the Don Carlos P. Garcia oval.
Bohol-Prisaa’s John Stanley Cervantes saved the host city from embarrassment after winning the men’s shot put event with a throw measuring 9.51 meters.
In women’s athletics, leading the Cebuanos’ charge is Jelena Joy Dagatan, who continued her domination in the throwing events after the UC stalwart tagged her second gold medal in the competition by reigning supreme in women’s shot put with a throw of 8.71 meters.
Basketball at the Holy Name University-Main gymnasium was also dominated by the mostly Southwestern University (SWU) Cobras-powered Prisaa-Cebu, who trounced Bohol-Prisaa twice in one day to grab the championship title and secure a spot for the Prisaa National Games slated April 11 to 18 in Iloilo City.
The perennial regional defending champions, Prisaa-Cebu also won the golds in men’s and women’s volleyball at the University of Bohol gymnasium.
The Dave Arreza-mentored Prisaa-Cebu women’s team were the first to pluck the gilt with a 25-20, 25-16 and 25-12 victory over Bohol-Prisaa, while the men’s team had to endure a four-setter before outlasting the hard-fighting combination of UB and Holy Name University, 25-19, 22-25, 25-25 and 25-16.
In lawn tennis, UV’s Norman Joseph Enriquez won the singles event, while Ralph Juliane and Mike Evander Biennes lost the doubles event before USC’s Gab Reconalla came to the rescue by winning the deciding reverse singles for a 2-1 Prisaa-Cebu victory over Bohol Prisaa in the men’s division.
The Prisaa-Cebu women’s division netters went through an easier path towards victory over Bohol Prisaa as Sally Mae Siso drubbed her singles opponent in the opening, while the tandem of University of the Visayas’ Juvilyn Barquin and USC’s Kezia Jabines outplayed their rivals to give the Cebuanos the sweeping 2-0 win.
The Prisaa-Cebu’s women’s badminton team composed of UC’s Jeralyn Taboada, Shemae Grace Cabaluna, Julie Marie Malazarte, USC’s Yerha Silawan and USJ-R’s Marnete Sia also gave the delegation five golds after trouncing their Bohol-Prisaa counterparts, 2-0.
The men’s side, manned by UC’s Aljun Penute, Dexter Opalla, Mark Joseph Puentevella and Ghlobert Balaba, and USJ-R’s Michaelangelo Ouano finished the sweeping job of the Cebuano as they too blanked their Boholano rivals, 2-0, for another five gold medals.
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