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Friday, February 18, 2005
Budget lack hits UM 5
By Marianne L. Saberon
NATIONAL Prisaa 2002 women's basketball champion University of Mindanao (UM) Cardinals will opt to compete in the BAP Inter-Collegiate Basketball Tournament in Dumaguete City instead at the WNCAA in Legazpi City due to funding constraints.
UM sports director Joaquin "Boy" Sarabia said: "Our money is just enough to bring the team to Dumaguete as much as we want to also see action in the WNCAA."
The Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Inter-Collegiate event is slated February 28 to March 5 while the Women's National Colleges Athletic Association (WNCAA) meet is on February 25 to 28.
"We are left with no choice but to compete in only one national tournament with budget limitations and conflict of schedule. It would take a long travel time should we go to Legazpi then to Dumaguete," Sarabia told members of the Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) in their weekly sports forum at the Tower Inn Thursday.
Sarabia said whichever event the Cardinals are expected to put up a very good competition despite their sorry loss to the Rizal Memorial Colleges (RMC) lady Bulldogs in the Davao City-Private Schools Athletic Association (DC-Prisaa) finals.
"Our team is a champion team. We will stand a good chance in Dumaguete. I think there will be a total of eight teams seeing action," Sarabia said.
"If the NCR and Luzon teams compete in WNCAA then it would be an all-Visayas and all-Mindanao in BAP," he added.
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(February 18, 2005 issue)
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