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Friday, September 23, 2005
Palawan win boosts up takraw team
By Mike T. Limpag
Sun.Star Correspondent
After bagging the gold in the 2005 Mayor Hagedorn’s Cup in Palawan, the RP sepak takraw team thinks a gold is within reach in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games on Nov. 27 to Dec. 5.
“We’ve gauged our level, and though we are not promising anything, I think we can get the gold,” said RP coach Vicente Luad Jr. during the Scoop forum at Baseline Restaurant. “We will do our best.”
Luad and the nine-man RP team are already in Cebu as part of their final preparation for the biennial meet, which the country will host for the third time.
Sepak takraw, along with dancesport and pencak silat will be held in Cebu City; judo and karatedo will be in Mandaue City; and mountainbike in Danao City.
Achievements
“We won the gold in the pre-Seag event in Palawan, and although Thailand did not join, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia were there,” Luad said.
The Hagedorn Cup was just the latest of a string of achievements for the RP team. Last year, the Filipinos bagged a silver and bronze medal in the World Sepak Takraw Championship.
“In the 2003 SEA Games, we also won a bronze medal and that was the first sepak takraw medal for the Philippines since the first staging of the Games,” Luad said.
Luad retired from active play last year, while the members of the 2003 team – Harrison Castañares, Danilo Alipan and captain ball Hector Memarion – are still seeing action this year.
“We would like to thank CebuSoc (Cebu SEA Games Organizing Committee) and (Philippine Sports Commission) chairman Butch Ramirez for their moral support, and we assure you that we will give our all for the country,” Castañares said.
(September 23, 2005 issue)
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