2008 CVIRAA Meet: Cebu City Niños a big flop in elementary lawn tennis
The mighty Cebu City Niños practically dominated all events save for their elementary lawn tennis squad that turned out to be a big flop in the 2008 Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVIRAA) Meet at the Carlos P. Garcia Sports Complex in Tagbilaran City.
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Satera’s victory came out to be a mixture of luck and breaks of the game.
Heading into the match, Lagman had no proper rest as he had to attend to his graduation at St. Benedict Childhood Learning Center the other day and then took the
Lagman and his mother Julie arrived in Tagbilaran past
Then, Lagman had to play one game after the other until he reached the final game versus Satera.
Lagman was leading in the early goings until Satera caught up with him and knotted the count at 5-all amid complaints by the latter’s camp that the court was ‘unplayable’ because of the slight drizzle that made it slippery.
Lady luck smiled at Satera as the rain poured in, prompting the game officials to stop the match for about 20 minutes.
When the game resumed, momentum shifted on Satera’s side on the way to complete the huge upset.
In the distaff side, Kimberly Uytico was too much for
The other gold medal contributors of the day for Cebu City were Jade Marie Recto in the 400m run, Carl Jeanette Malazarte in the 3,000 m steeplechase, Dharl Pitogo in the 110m, hurdles, and Sheena Gacayan in the 800 m.
Earlier, the Niños ruled swimming, arnis, taekwondo and badminton both in the secondary boys and girls categories.
Thus, the Niños zoomed further to the top of the standings with an unassailable total points of 217. Dumaguete is at second with 79.5 points followed by
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