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                    [Title] => Decatus bags taekwondo jr flyweight title
                    [Summary] => US Open bronze medalist Gerrielyn Decatus outsteadied Clark Field’s Irene Parker to eke out a 4-3 victory and bag the junior women’s flyweight gold in the Samsung Best of the Best taekwondo championships which ended Sunday at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City.


It was the second gold for Decatus in the prestigious tourney in two years. Last year, the 16-year-old St. Anthony High senior ruled the bantam class but she had to shed off some pounds to compete in a lighter weight category.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213700 [Title] => Cruz enters taek’do semis [Summary] => Six-time Southeast Asian Games finweight gold medalist Roberto Cruz swept his two senior men’s matches yesterday to barge into the semifinals at the start of the Samsung Best of the Best taekwondo championships at the Glorietta in Makati City.

Cruz, 30, crushed Mandy del Rosario, 6-0, with swift, strong sidekicks to the body in the second round, and then used the same weapon to beat Letran’s Hector Arellano, 4-0, in their quarterfinal clash.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 168435 [Title] => Enriquez, 2 others in pinweight semis [Summary] => National pool member Jose Enriquez stood tough when it mattered to lead three others to the senior men’s pinweight semifinals yesterday at the start of the Samsung Best of the Best national taekwondo championships at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City.

Enriquez withstood the attacks of Ateneo’s Karym Laidan to win by superiority after they had battled to a 3-3 tie.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166256 [Title] => Elite jins featured in national taekwondo [Summary] => The country’s best taekwondo jins will battle it out in the Samsung Best of the Best National Taekwondo Championships slated on July 15 to 21 at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City.

Participants will include elite blackbelts from the national pool, Taekwondo Blackbelt Brotherhood and Sorority (TBB and TBS), Philippine Taekwondo Contingent (PTC), winners of the AFP-PNP Olympics, gold medalists of the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Championships and of the different NCR selections.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163593 [Title] => Asuncions gain in JVC tilt [Summary] => Kennevic and Kennie Asuncion continued their explosive show in singles and mixed doubles competitions as they towed the rest of the field to the quarterfinals of the JVC Open Badminton Championships starting today at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati.

Kennevic and Kennie justified their billing as the top seeds as they crushed the tandem of Christopher Conde and Sandy Banquiles of the University of Santo Tomas, 15-0, 15-1, in the round of 16 of the mixed doubles competition at the Rizal Memorial Badminton Hall.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162994 [Title] => Puma street soccer starts at Glorietta [Summary] => Fourteen schools nationwide clash for prestige and honor in the Puma Invitational Street Soccer 15-under tournament, the latest craze that is drawing multitudes of fans and players worldwide, starting today at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati.

The competing teams are Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Iloilo, Davao, Rizal Province, Laguna, Masbate, Iligan, Ateneo Football Center, Makati Football School, International School, Brent International, British School and Japanese School.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162636 [Title] => 14 teams vie in Puma soccer tilt [Summary] => Fourteen teams nationwide have confirmed their participation in the Puma invitational street soccer tournament — the main event of the PUMA football festival slated June 1-3 at the Glorietta Activity Center.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 130605 [Title] => Fancied Chinese shuttlers here [Summary] => The vaunted Chinese squad, led by world’s No. 1 ladies doubles team of Gao Ling and Huang Sui, arrives today, ready to stamp its class against world class opposition in the $150,000 JVC Asian Badminton Championships which fires off Wednesday at the Philsports Arena.

The Chinese are coming in full force with a 22-player contingent, including four each in the men’s and ladies singles events which they hope to rule with a talented roster toughened up by a series of tournaments in the last two months.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129958 [Title] => Ranking points staked in JVC Asian badminton [Summary] => In a bid to further raise the level of competition and inspire strong performances from the Asian players, organizers of the JVC Asian Badminton Championships are staking ranking points for the top players competing in the $150,000 event slated Aug. 22-26 at the Philsports Arena.

Launched in 1999, the ranking system is put up to recognize the efforts of the Asian players and motivate them to dish out their best games. It is also designed to serve as a medium for developing seedings in the annual championships.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 128629 [Title] => MSF tops QMile’s 6th leg [Summary] => It was another successful run for the Shell-Prospeed’s Quartermile Championship Drag Racing last July 21 at the Manila Harbour Center as 58 cars participated, with entries coming from as far as Cagayan and Baguio.

Despite the unpredictable weather, the sixth leg of the race saw the country’s top four drag teams burn rubber to accumulate championship points. Topping the race was MSF Autoworks with 174 points, followed by Bolt-on Performance (128), Bagspeed (122) and ATI-Racing (110).
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => ) ) )
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