THE basketball and beach volleyball teams are the remaining silver lining for the RP team in the first Asian Youth Games as they advanced to the quarterfinal round in Singapore.

However, the Philippines still hasn’t earned a single medal after the third day, while China kept the No. 1 spot with a 13-3-2 gold-silver-bronze tally.

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Korea is at second with 4-5-5, while Japan is at third with 3-4-0.

While the rest of the members of the RP team slowly drop out of the competitions, the beach volleyball and basketball squads continue to fight.

Alyssa Valdez and Kim Fajardo advanced to the quarterfinal round of the girls’s beach volleyball competition after defeating Mongolia in straight sets. The win kept the girls’s bid alive after they lost in their other match against Chinese Taipei earlier yesterday.

Valdez and Fajardo will face Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals.

In boys’s basketball, the team of Mario Bonleon, JR Emmanuel, Jeoffrey Javillonar, Jeron Teng and Cris Tolomia formalized their entry to the quarterfinals after defeating Jordan, 35-31, to top Group C.

They will face UAE in the next round.

Javillonar led the team to victory after scoring 20 of the team’s points.

In the distaff side, the girls’s team also advanced to the quarterfinals after topping its group following a 28-22 win over Sri Lanka.

Danica Therese Jose topscored for the team with 10 points.

Jose, along with Tara Shane Araneta, Jonah Mari Melendres and Trisha Anne Piatos, will be facing Korea in the quarterfinals.

In bowling, the Filipinos are slowly bowing out of contention with only the boys’s team having a chance to make a medal finish in the tournament.

Focus

In yesterday’s first block of the boys’s team event, the RP squad finished at fourth place to Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

“We played a very good first game but we struggled in the second and third. We can still win it. Anything can happen
tomorrow and we just need to focus,” Filipino bowler Louie Chuaquico told ayg2009.com.

The Filipinos were not lucky in the doubles event.

RP team’s Lingling de Guzman and Madeline Llamas and Dyan Coronacion and Alexis Sy finished ninth and 10th , respectively, in the doubles event.

Jose Collins and Chuaquico finished seventh in the boys side.

In table tennis, the mixed-doubles team managed to bounce back from its first loss to win over Kuwait, 2-1.

In the girls’s singles, Ian Lariba defeated Alammar KH F Maha, 11-6, 11-2, 11-6, to get the upper hand. In the boys’s singles, however, Val Stephen Jaca lost to Almkeemy Abdulla in four sets, 11-4,6-11, 11-7, 11-9. Lariba and Jaca made up for it in the deciding doubles with a 11-6, 11-1, 7-11, 11-5 victory. However, it was not enough for them to advance to the next round.

In the Round-of-32 of the mixed-doubles contest, Lariba and Jaca lost to Hong Kong’s Daryl Hung and Li Ching Wan in straight sets.