Saturday, February 09, 2008 UC, USPF dancers toe way to 1-2 in Prisaa
THE University of Cebu and University of Southern Philippines Foundation dance athletes opened the medal haul for the Cebu Prisaa after bagging a 1-2 finish in the dancesports competition in the opening day of the 2008 Prisaa-7 regional meet at the Cebu Coliseum yesterday.
Eo Lowen Rendon and Mary Desiree Seraga of UC won the high school division gold Latin gold medal while Princess Inocando and Jed Mahusay also of UC bagged the gilt in the Latin college division.
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USPF’s Jefferson Pimentel and Niña Deidrey Marikit and the tandem of Lloyd William Bellingan and Rochelle Guerra settled for silver and bronze medal respectively in the high school competition and another USPF pair of Barbie Caryll Vallente and John Shebert Fariñas won the silver medal in the college division.
The Rendon/Seraga tandem earned a perfect 12 points from the judges while Pimentel and Marikit earned 28 while Bellingan and Guerra had 31. Incando and Mahusay, meanwhile, garnered 12 while Vallente and Fariñas had 24, in the competition for Cha-Cha-Char, Samba, Rumba and Jive.
After yesterday’s graceful and glamorous opening rites, formal hostilities officially starts today with at least 50 gold medals in the individual events at stake.
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Most of the medals will come from the medal-rich athletic events, swimming, karatedo and taekwondo while the ball games will also start at the respective venue.
Prisaa-7 secretariat Bernard Ricablanca, who is also the athletic director of powerhouse University of Cebu, believes that it would be another glorious run for the Cebu Prisaa.
“Of course, we can not discount the fact that there are good athletes coming from other places but I believe Cebu had the edge in everything and the bulk of the Prisaa-7 team to the National Prisaa meet will be coming from the Cebu Prisaa,” Ricablanca stressed. (RCM)
