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ATENEO
rode Gregorio Cancio’s hat trick to dispose of rival De
La Salle, 4-0, yesterday in the University Athletic
Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 70 men’s
football tournament in front of a good-sized crowd at
the Ateneo field.
Cancio,
20, drilled the goals in the 28th and 43rd and capped
his scoring spree with a breakaway goal in the 47th.
Jose
Antonio Peralta booted the other Ateneo goal in the 35th
minute.
University of the Philippines (UP) beat Far Eastern
University (FEU), 4-2, thanks to Jose Adonis Santos’s
own hat trick, while defending champion University of
Santo Tomas (UST) dispatched University of the East (UE),
1-0.
Ateneo
coach Ompong Merida commended his players for recovering
after a sluggish debut that saw them winning, 2-1, over
UP on Sunday.
“We
learned from it,” said
Merida.
“We prepared well and we executed well. Ginawa nila
lahat ng pinagawa ko. We played a perfect game.”
The win
put Ateneo in a tie with UST for the lead with a 1-0-0
win-loss-draw card. FEU and UP are tied for third with
1-1-0 while De La Salle and UE are at the bottom at
0-2-0.
Tigers
2-and-0 in men’s tennis
UST beat
UP , 3-2, to make it two wins in a row yesterday
afternoon in the UAAP Season 70 men’s tennis tournament
at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.
Reigning
Most Valuable Player Wilbur Orillano teamed up with
Alexander Diego to beat UP’s duo of Marco Antonio
Palanca and Earl James Soldivillo, 6-1, 6-7, 6-4, in the
second doubles match to seal the win.
Before
that, Maclean Barraquias defeated Arithmetico Lim, 6-3,
6-1, in the first singles match while Raymond Villarete
beat Alexander Borela, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4.
UP’s
wins came from the partnership of Niko Katigbak and
James Patrick Pang, who beat Ryan Repunte and Keane
Barraquias, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, and Eufracio Dimayuga, a 7-6,
7-6 winner over James Cañete.
The
Tigers are in solo first with 2-0 followed by the
Fighting Maroons at 1-1.
Meanwhile, De La Salle won its first game by trouncing
UE, 5-0.
Action
resumes Sunday with the women’s matches (UST-De La
Salle, UP-Ateneo) at 9 a.m. to be followed by the men’s
matches (UST-De La Salle, UP-Ateneo) at noon also at the
Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.
Bulldogs stun Falcons in baseball
NATIONAL
University
(NU) scored three crucial runs in the last inning to
beat last season’s runner-up Adamson, 7-6, yesterday in
Season 70 baseball tournament at the Rizal Memorial
Ballpark.
Gino
Mitra, Jose Castro and Christian Galedo pushed a run
each in the decisive ninth inning. The Bulldogs lost
their season opener against UP, 6-5.
With the
game tied at 4 with two outs, Mitra blasted losing
hurler Warren Vispo’s pitch to right center, scoring
John Leonor after he walked and stole second. Castro
tripled to give Mitra a run then went home on a Galedo
single.
Adamson
actually led, 2-1, when NU scored three runs in the
fifth. But the Falcons tied the game in the seventh with
a Marvin Malig two-run double in the seventh.
UST goes
up against UP on Sunday at 8 a.m. It will be followed by
the match-up between Ateneo and NU and Adamson and De La
Salle. |
