Zambo del Sur hosts regional meet

MANILA, Philippines - Zamboanga del Sur will play host to some 3,000 athletes and officials in the 2013 Zamboanga Peninsula Regional Athletic Association meet slated Feb. 24-March 2 at the Provincial Government Complex in Dao, Zamboanga del Sur.

Gov. Antonio Cerilles said the game will be held at the very venue which hosted the Boy Scout of the Philippines’ first One Mindanao Jamboree and the recently conducted NCCA’s 2013 Philippine Visual Arts Festival.

The complex consists of an Athletes Village, an oval, a football field, standard tennis courts, basketball courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool and other facilities.

Events on tap are athletics, badminton, arnis, baseball, basketball, boxing, chess, football, gymnastics, sepak takraw, softball, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball and archery.

The field includes elementary and secondary schools in Isabela City, Pagadian City, Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and the twin cities of Dipolog and Dapitan.