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Thursday, February 26, 2004
15 Cebu Try-Out qualifiers named
By Rommel C. Manlosa
THE 15 players who will make it to the national basketball training pool in the next round of the Cebuana Lhuillier “Try-Out ng Bayan” are still to be determined as the three-day event formally closed yesterday at the Cebu Coliseum.
Meanwhile, the coaching staff identified former Cebu Institute of Technology Wildcats players – Jerry Cavan, Joseph Guangco, Rainwald Ramos, Jommel Lanutan and Glenn Dale Boncaros to make the Cebu hopefuls along with former USP Panther Jett Latonio, UV Green Lancer Jayford Rodriguez, USC’s Gerry Gerilla and Mico Pacheco and UC’s Jonathan Canceran – along with five more players to test their skills against the other qualifiers from the Visayas.
While more than 200 enthusiasts benefited from the free basketball clinic program as they graduated under the direction of national team coaches Dong Vergeire and Boycie Zamar.
Fifteen players will advance to the Final Visayas Try-Out along with those who have impressed Vergeire and Zamar in tryouts in Iloilo City, Bacolod City,
Dumaguete City plus the potentials from Tacloban. They will all get their chance to showcase their talent tomorrow and Friday.
Hoping
Still Vergeire hopes that University of the Visayas sentinels Neil Rañeses and Joseph Ronald Quiñahan could join them the Visayas final stage. “I expected Quiñahan and Rañeses to show up in the Try-Out,” Vergeire, the head coach of the 1997 SEA Games basketball gold medallist RP Team said.
“But they are still welcome for the Visayas final stage. I am interested on those two players from UV. We will make special arrangements for those who qualify to the national pool.”
Quiñahan and Rañeses were included in the short-list of Aric del Rosario to compose the 2003 SEA Games Basketball Team.
National tryouts
The survivors of the Visayas eliminations will join their counterparts from Mindanao and Luzon for the final national tryout in April.
Vergeire said that the first outing of the national squad is the Jones Cup in Taiwan in July. “After we form the team on April – we will have May and June to prepare for the Jones Cup in July,” added Vergeire.
(February 26, 2004 issue)
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