ATC crowned Inter Company champions
Global Care, ON-TIME, Chronos Mills and Legends clinch division titles Best of the Rest
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 2: The ATC Chilis squad became the newest Inter Company champions Friday after seeing off Yiaco Medical 72-55 in a tensed fight as the UAE Exchange/Xpress Money PABAK 29th Conference games grinded to the finish line at the Disabled Sports Club in Hawally.
Global Care, ON-TIME, Chronos Mills and Legends were the other championship winners in the Leaguers, Felix Misa Cup, ProLeaguers and Veterans divisions.
The FONZ/TFC/AJWAATravels cosponsored basketball championship games saw matches played with teams contesting for laurels in the top spots as well as first and second runner-up slots in the 7-game tournament of the various divisions. Awards and trophies were handed out by PABAK Champion: 1st Runner Up: 2nd Runner Up:
Finals MVP: Global Care
Game MVP: Global Care
Leaguers Division Mythical-5 members were: Borg Dusdo of Tisok, Kenneth Dahuya of Global Care, Vlad Casimiro of Tisok, Fritts Garrets of Global Care and Eric Barbieto of Global Care. Commissioner Jojo Eresnas and President Rod Cerezo to deserving winning teams as well as individual players, coaches and officials.
The winners in the various Divisions were as follows:
Inter-Company: Champion: ATC Chilis 1st Runner Up: Yiaco Medical 2nd Runner Up: Buffalo Café Finals MVP: Bryan Perez of ATC MVPof Game: Alfred Chan of ATC The Mythical-5 members of the Inter-Company group were: Paul Duma-Yiaco, Alfred Chan-ATC, Abraham Marcos-Yiaco, Bryan PerezATC and Norman Lopez of Yiaco.
Pro-Leaguers: Champion: Chronos Mills 1st Runner Up: NADEC 2nd Runner Up: Open Kitchen Leaguers: Global Care Tisok Marina Volts Fritts Garrett of
Kenneth Dayuha of
Veterans: Champion: Legends 1st Runner Up: IMCO Engineering 2nd Runner Up: Royal Mist Finals MVP: Bernard Carino of Legends
Game MVP: Legends
Veterans division Mythical-5 members include Arnold De Leon of Legends, Lambujon of Legends, Ronald Sotero of Legends, Allan Aloria of IMCO Engineering and Bernard Carino of IMCO Engineering.
Felix Misa Cup: Champion-ON-TIME 1st Runner Up-GCC Vipers ATC’s Dean Basco shot a 3-pointer right off the bat to hand his side a great start in the early moments of the actionpacked inter company championship game against Yiaco Medicals. The Advanced Technology Company (ATC) on the backs of Alfred Chan, Dean Basco and Bryan Perez, managed to dominate the first quarter to finish
Arnold De Leon of 17-10.
The ATC first quarter advantage soon gave way as Yiaco’s Norman Lopez and Abraham Marcos warmed into the game with a fierce challenge, firing their barrages to bring the first half to a near standoff at 31-34, still 3 points down.
Marcos shot 8 in the first half of the game for Yiaco. Sensing their title ambitions increasingly threatened, ATC ramped up the pace of their game with Alfred Chan, Bryan Perez, Jedd Sauza, Joe Flaviano and Ronald Alaro weighing into the fray with their deluges to finish the finish the game with a comfortable margin, 72-55 to raucous cheers from supporters who had packed the gallery in their droves.
Bryan Perez’s star power came into play in the final stretch as he came up with some delectable runs scoring some seven crucial points including a distant 3-pointer to further deepen the woes of the opposition.
He finished the game with a whopping 21 points to his name while Chan followed at 19 in the win. Yiaco’s Marcos and Lopez were also visible in the game, having paced their side with 17 and 10 markers apiece in the loss that handed them the first runner up spot.
Elsewhere in the tournament, Global Care subdued Tisok 76-67 to lift the Leaguers trophy. Kenneth Dahuya and Fritts Garettes for Global were at the business end of the victory, topping the score chart with 19 and 16 points apiece. The pair ruled the court for the better part of the game with a flurry of 2 and 3-pointers that came effortlessly. The closest the opposition ever came close was through Jay Manalo and Vlad Casimiro who both scored 12 points in the game.
Global began the first quarter by opening up a huge lead in the first half, 40-21, which Tisok was unable to close till buzzer. The third quarter was the closest Tisok could stitch up the hole with Casimiro peaking them. The score at the end of the third quarter was 6961, Global still ahead by a comfortable margin. Dahuya was well supported by Borg Dusdo.
Losing sight of victory, Tisok pulled up their socks in the final round with Dusdo engaging the opposition basket with hunger, but Global didn’t let up in their attack which resulted in more scoring for them to eventually seal the Tisok demolition with a convincing 7667 win to clinch the Leaguers trophy.
Legends squad was the proud owner of the Veterans division trophy after subjecting IMCO Engineering to a merciless thrashing, 71-58. Arnold De Leon and Ronald Sotero for Legends scored 16 and 11 points in the championship encounter. The two best players on the IMCO side, Bernard Carino and Allan Aloria only managed to finish with 12 and 8 points as their best reply to the Legend broadsides.
ON-TIME struggled to brush off a GCC Vipers fierce challenge with a 5653 victory to lift the Feli Misa championship trophy. Led by Felix, Reyes and captain Vallesteria, ON-TIME balanced strategy and aggression to exploit the chinks in the opposition defense to hand them a 56-53 victory. Reyes led the ON-TIME charge scoring 17 points, backed by Vallesteria’s 11 valuable points to clinch the win.
In the battle for the third place of the inter company group, a closely contested game was fought with one time champions Buffalo Café outpacing Matrix to clinch the third runner up spot with a 75-69 win before a capacity crowd in the indoor court. The highoctane encounter was pretty much a done deal for the Buffalos.
In another keenly contested Leaguers Championship second runner up clash, Marina Volts fought tooth and nail, coming from a 3-point deficit in the first quarter to clinch the spot after finishing 87-76 against Flipside. The high-octane encounter was a pretty much closely fought game from the second round with the Volts wielding a slight advantage courtesy De La Rosa, Jay Valencia and Kim Legaspi who combined to lead the their side in the rally, 47-39. The Volts continued on their momentum and Nihonpiro Ours wins in Japan: Manabu Sakai guided Nihonpiro Ours to beat Hokko Tarumae in the last furlong to win the 1,800-metre (1.1 mile) Japan Cup Dirt horse racing at Hanshin race course on Sunday.
The five-year-old, trailing Hokko Tarumae and Transcend after the third corner, snatched the lead in the home straight to clock one minute 48.8 seconds for the victory.
Wonder Acute, ridden by Ryuji Wada, came in second three-and-ahalf lengths behind, followed by Hokko Tarumae one-and-a-half lengths further back.
Espoir City, who led the race until the back straight by three lengths, finished 10th while Transcend came in last at 16th.
“I’m just happy. Since I rode this horse for the first time, I had thought he would win a big race like this. He just needs to hit best and he did it today,” said Sakai. (AFP) Red Sox sign Gomes: The Boston Red Sox have signed outfielder Jonny Gomes to a two-year contract through the 2014 season, the team said on Saturday.
Financial terms were not announced. Boston media reported Gomes, who has played in the Major Leagues for 10 years, will earn $10 million over two years.
“I see him playing a lot of left field — we think his bat fits well in the lineup, in the ballpark,” Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington told Major League Baseball’s website.
Gomes, 32, played for the Oakland Athletics last season, hitting .262 with 18 home runs and 47 runs batted in 99 games for the American League West champions. (RTRS) Gitau wins Fukuoka marathon: Kenyan runner Joseph Gitau outpaced Polish Olympian Henryk Szost to take the lead for the last eight kilometres and secure a surprise win in the Fukuoka international marathon on Sunday.
The Japan-based 24-year-old, who belongs to the JFE Steel athletics club in Hiroshima, clipped nearly 15 minutes off his personal best of two hours 21 minutes and 54 seconds to cross the finishing line in 2:06:58. (AFP) ambled to an easy 87-76 win.
The rounds ended 16-19, 47-39, 7168 and finally 87-76. Flipside was never far behind but Jeff Diwa and Dizon the two stars who went on to finish with 23 and 14 points could not do more than what they did as the support coming from other team members was very limited in their fight against a determined opponent like the Volts. The Volts ambled to a win with De La Rosa and Legaspi scoring 31 and 24 for their side in the win.
D’Coaches went down 82-89 against Royal Mist in a contest for the second runner up spot of the veterans division. Choy Mico, Angel Rillo and Joe Casuga were the main scorers in the D’Coaches defeat.
The 30th Conference of the Philippines Amateur Basketball Association of Kuwait (PABAK) kicks off next Friday, December 7th. Interested players are invited to register as registration is still ongoing at the Hawally Disabled Sports Club or call 66686954.