Sunday, October 20, 2013

Five Filipinos and a Fil-Japanese earned trip tickets to the Southeast Asian Games

Five Filipinos and a Fil-Japanese earned trip tickets to the Southeast Asian Games slated on December 11-22 after dominating their respective divisions in the pre-SEA Games qualifying held in Myanmar.

MB Tae Kwon Do EagleGilbert Ramirez, Bryan Quillotes, Dennis Catipon, Helen Dawa, Jennylou Mosqueda and Kiyome Watanabe humbled their respective rivals in a mighty show of superiority that convinced the POC-PSC SEA Games Task Force that they deserved to join the delegation to the 11-nation biennial meet along with seeded Nancy Quillotes and Ruth Dugaduga.

Quillotes and Dugaduga qualified by virtue of their golden finish in the last SEA Games held in Indonesia.

This will be the second time Watanabe will play for the country since 2011 in Indonesia where the 16-year-old won the bronze in her first appearance.

“I’m happy for them; they lived up to expectations,” coach Dionisio Lucero told TEMPO during the Batang Pinoy Luzon leg held in Iba, Zambales.

Two more Fil-Japanese bets Kenjie Yahata and Nakano Kudo from Ateneo are competing in heavier divisions and are determined to join the RP delegation.

“Hopefully, they’ll make it as well,” said Lucero, father of former national athletes Aristotle and Christopher Lucero and upcoming national judoka Eunice Lucero.

Judo is one of four NSAs that have yet to submit their entries as their athletes are still competing overseas. Shooting, women basketball and wushu have also to beat the deadline.

Myanmar scrapped baseball, softball, fencing, gymnastics, chess, lawn tennis, dance sports, soft tennis and some events in billiard, forcing the Philippines to limit its number of bets.

Judo is one of eight combat sports at stake in the SEA Games, apart from boxing, karate, pencak silat, taekwondo, wrestling, wushu and muaythai.

The country placed sixth overall in the last SEA Games in Indonesia with 169 medals on account of 36-56-77. (Clyde Mariano)

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