Sports

With six hundred thirty-two athletes and officials, the National Capital Region (NCR) is fully prepared to defend their title as the “Ultimate Champion” of the perennial sports event Palarong Pambansa this upcoming April 20-26, 2008 hosted by Puerto Princesa City.
Year-round trainings, inclusion of sports into their basic curriculum, spotting star players from grade 3 up to secondary level all over their region and monitoring all the selected best players to represent their region was the preparations done by the NCR for this year’s Palaro.

The Department of Transportation and Communication is Hard put to cool down the airport terminal in Puerto City and fast track its long-awaited expansion as passengers arrive in droves for the summer and the 2008 Palarong Pambansa.

Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn said airline passengers had been complaining of the intense heat at the terminal which has resulted in one death.

Hagedorn said he visited the airport on Saturday and it was much hotter inside than outside like an “oven”.

WITH A tremendous guts and exemplary act, Peacock’s lady tennis players emerged champions after battling over Palawan at the championship doubles for secondary at Socrates Tennis Court in Palawan National School Compound, April 9.

April Santos and Cherry Mae Gilongos of Puerto Princesa are this year’s regional meet’s gold medalists for the event while their last opponents, Krystyll Oyan Orpilla and Cyril Garadom of Palawan got the silver medals.

‘PUERTO PRINCESA TO BID FOR 2009 MRAA’

THE curtains are closed but everybody including the athletes heaved a sigh of relief as Puerto Princesa City successfully hosted the 2008 MIMAROPA Regional Meet with a new hope and a lot of promise for a much better exciting big events 8 days from now.

SHE SWIMS like a mermaid but charms like a beauty Princess.

Thus, Clarisse Faith Layacan combined sports talent and beauty to become Miss MIMAROPA Meet 2008 in a fitting pageant competition, Tuesday night at the Mendoza Park Amphitheater in Barangay Model.
She kept her poise all-throughout when the judges announced the verdict giving the shy 15-year-old swimming multi-medalist the task to represent Region IV-B in the forthcoming search for 2008 Palarong Pambansa barely 9 days from now.

Oriental Mindoro bagged the last semi-final slot in volleyball (boys, secondary) against Occidental Mindoro, having two sets won in a row, 25-18 and 25-17 at the Ramon Mitra, Jr. Sports Complex, April 9.
While the spikers from the west had exhibited their effective offenses, the eastern team was busy to figure out how to outmaneuver it, but despite their efforts, Oriental emerged victorious. The latter would be facing Palawan blockers in the final game, April 10.

TWO Puerto Princesans clashed in the finals of the Tennis singles boys elementary yesterday, April 9, 2008.
Homegrown talents, Francisco Santos III and Andre Alagao fought like two small but deadly Princesans in the championship event with Santos raising a head higher, 8-1.

THE HOST city Puerto Princesa showed just a glimpse of what to expect two weeks from now as colorful pageantry, songs and dances ushered yesterday\'s opening of the 2008 MIMAROPA Regional Meet before a huge crowd at the newly-refurbished 16-hectare Ramon V. Mitra Jr. Sports Complex in Barangay Sta. Monica here.

It was not the glittering fireworks, which highlighted the opening rites, that caught the crowd’s interests but the distinct show of solidarity and unity through sports among DepEd officials all-over the region.

PUERTO PRINCESA: Support from different sectors started flowing in for the host city of the 2008 Palarong Pambansa, which gets underway on April 20 to 27 at the Ramon V. Mitra Jr. Sports Complex in Barangay Sta. Mo¬nica here.

The biggest backer, of course, is President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who chipped in P49-million augmentation fund for the staging of the multi-event meet for elementary and high school student-athletes.

Engr. Anthony Baisa, Jr., CEO of Bodega Site Computer Warehouse, introduced to the MRAA participantswww.puertoprincesa.ph, the new interactive site of the City of Puerto Princesa last April 6 at Asturias Hotel.

Through the efforts of the City Information Office headed by former City Councilor Alroben Goh, the website, powered by Bodega Site, took less than ten days in construction and now caters the MRAA participants and the whole world information regarding what is up beat in the city.