Chan fires record 64 at Eagle Ridge

MANILA, Philippines - Ateneo 2 spearhead Aidric Chan fired a series record eight-under-par 64 gross to ensure another victory by his team in Midgets 2 even as the battle between La Salle Greenhills 5 and La Salle Zobel for Midgets 1 remained tight in the second leg of the ICTSI Inter-school golf tournament at the Aoki course of the Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club in Gen. Trias, Cavite.

Chan made an eagle, eight birdies to more than offset a double-bogey for 62 points under the Molave system of scoring. With the 54 points of his cousin Carl Jano Corpus, Ateneo 2 chalked up 116 for a 36-hole total of 206 and a whopping 66-point advantage over Ateneo 3 in the penultimate round of the school season series.

Chan’s superb effort was just 14 points less than the 76-point output for the round of Ateneo 3 (140) which got 40 from Raphael Samson and 36 from Andres Magalong.

The rest of the pack were way behind with Ateneo 4 at 109, LSGH 6 at 81, Brent 4 60, Xavier 8 55 and Xavier 7 40 in the tourney given major backing by International Container Terminal Services, Inc. with the support of Philippine Airlines, Chevrolet, Pancake House Group, Teriyaki Boy and Sizzlin’ Pepper.

The LSGH 5 trio of Ryan Monsalve, Spade Barbers and EZ Serapio held off the big charge of La Salle Zobel to stay on top by four strokes in Midgets 1.

Monsalve fired 41 for the second consecutive round, Barbers did 37 and Serapio had 29 for 107 points, giving LSGH 5 216 against the 212 of La Salle Zobel, which outscored their rivals by four with their 111.

Jaime Oposa tallied 46, Karl Tolentino added 35 and Riane Casquejo rounded out scoring with 30 for the Zobel boys.

In the individual category, Kristoffer Arevalo of Colegio de San Agustin (44-87)  stayed one point ahead of Brent’s Christopher Popp (49-86) and Lester Lagman of HCS (49-86) in Midgets 1. Chan (109) widened his lead to 12 over teammate Corpus (97).