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Friday, March 05, 2004
Davao City jins clinch team title in Davraa
By Marianne L. Saberon
MATI, Davao Oriental -- Too fast, too furious. And too good.
Davao City jin Cecil Padao landed four kicks on the face against Tagum City rival Sheila Oracion just a few minutes into their finals match to clinch the bantamweight gold medal.
Her superb performance made Davao's winning of the girls secondary championship title even sweeter at the close of the 2004 Davraa taekwondo meet at the jampacked Mati municipal covered court here Thursday.
The Davao girls secondary team collected a total of four golds, one silver and one bronze, while Davao Oriental placed second with one gold, two silvers and two bronzes.
Dark horse Compostela Valley salvaged one gold and two bronzes for third as Davao del Norte finished fourth with one silver and two bronzes.
"Nagsalig ra ko sa akong sarili ug kay God (I just put confidence in myself and to God)," was Padao's quick reply when asked how she won the gold.
Padao, a 15-year-old student at the L.A. Navarro National High School, said she is looking forward to competing in the coming Palaro where she intends to improve her silver finish last year.
Finweight Amelids Silva, flyweight Ryza Caritativo and welterweight Daisyrie Bravo also added golds for Davao's title-victory.
Davao was only one bronze shy to boys secondary champion Tagum City. Tagum City bagged two golds, one silver and two bronzes, while Davao had a 2-1-1 medal count.
Digos City was second with 1-0-2, while Davao del Norte recorded 1-0-1.
Davao City players Richard Querencia and Gino Tanducayan copped the finweight and bantamweight golds as Tagum relied mainly on flyweight Reynante Binas and welterweight Bobby Rulida Jr.
Lighweight Marlon Limasa of Digos and Davao del Norte's featherweight Jim Fernandez also took their share of the limelight.
In the elementary category, ComVal(2-1-2) edged Davao Oriental (2-1-0) for the boys championship plum, while Digos (1-0-1) placed third. Davao City was fourth with two silvers.
Davao Oriental ruled the girls side by sweeping three golds courtesy of finweight Katrinah Dumadaog, bantamweight Princess Laguna and lightweight Lizanne Vitug.
ComVal and Davao del Norte also took one gold each while Davao City was at the bottom with a lone bronze.
(March 5, 2004 issue)
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