PRISAA to limit events in 2007 National Finals

The organizing committee will scrap a sport event if there will be less than seven teams, which will be joining in the 2007 Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Championships in Iloilo City on April 15-21.

Fr. Vicente Uy, SVD relayed the development after attending the PRISAA board meeting in Iloilo City recently.

The first casualty will be soccer as only seven regions signified its intention to field a team, though host Iloilo is pushing for its inclusion even if it will only be a demonstration event.

The other sporting events to be featured in the final battle are men's baseball, women's softball, men and women's basketball, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, chess, karate-do, table tennis, taekwondo, athletics and swimming.

There will be no dancesport in the week-long event while the inclusion of the academic and cultural contests is still being finalized.

The deadline for confirmation of entries in the different sporting event as well as the Mutya ng PRISAA will be on March 15.

So far, a total of eight regions have already sent feelers to field a bet in the beauty and brains contest.

The sporting competition, on the other hand, has 15 regions signifying interest including Rregions 1, 2, 3, 4-A, and Regions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, the National Capital Region, ARMM and CARAGA. - Caecent No-ot-Magsumbol