Saturday, July 28, 2007 Cosaa Meet aims big By LYNDE SALGADOS
FROM merely four to 14 big schools now joining the three-year-old meet, Cosaa is increasingly threatening the position of Prisaa, which for many years has been well regarded to be the most dominant sports body here for private school institutions.
But Gerardo "Boboy" Sabal, sports coordinator of Xavier University and one of Cosaa's founding heads, said they don't intend to make a competition out of it.
"We're just here stoking the blaze for Cosaa and trying to improve it little by little. First, we have only four then nine and now 14 schools na ang nag-participate," Sabal told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro.
Cosaa means Cagayan de Oro Schools Athletic Association, while Prisaa is the decades-old-long Private Schools Athletic Association presently headed by Liceo de Cagayan University president, now City Councilor Adrian Barba.
The 3rd Season of Cosaa formally opens today at the basketball gymnasium of perennial host Xavier University. Preceding its grandiose 1 p.m. opening ceremony is the exhibition game between the junior varsity squads of Corpus Christi and Cagayan de Oro College.
"Just watch for our 6-foot-3 wingman Mychole Solera," was the intriguing warning of Corpus Christi coach Albert "Dodo" Bernados.
Fresh from completing the UE/Norman Black's coaching clinic in Manila, Bernados said his promising ward gets the "Baby JC Intal" moniker after he executed a couple of rim-rattling slam dunks during the basketball clinic's break.
"Gisabay nako si Mychole sa Manila and he did impress them," Bernados said, adding "Siya among saligando karon sa Corpus..naka-ingon lagi si Norman Black nga Baby Intal," referring to the former Slam Dunk King of the Philippine Basketball League.
Joining Xavier University and Corpus Christi in the Cosaa Meet are Acsat, COC, Capitol University, Lourdes College, Pilgrim Christian College, Southern Philippines College, Rosevale, Abba's Orchard, Saint Mary's and Merry Child School.
