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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388886 [Title] => HK boat lands IRC overall title [Summary] => Jelik, a Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club topnotch boat, emerged the biggest winner in the 15th President’s Cup Regatta as she won four of six races to run away with the IRC Racing Class overall championship in the four-day event closing the e-Standard Insurance Boracay Series yesterday.
Sandoway gained the overall crown in IRC 1 Class while China Rose copped the overall title in PY Cruising Class in the regatta which immediately proceeded the Manila-Boracay Race topped by Irresistible.
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The First 36.7 of Jun Avecilla, with an IRC handicap of 1:039, topped the long event at 1:30:15 after placing second in the windward and leeward race behind Irresistible Wednesday.
Irresistible, Harry Taylor’s S&S 36 which also triumphed in the Manila-Boracay Race 2007, fared poorly this time, missing the Magic 3.
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Crowned the Manila-Boracay Race winner Tuesday night, Harry Taylor’s S&S 36 scored a follow-up victory by ruling the American Express Race, a windward and leeward event kicking off the four-day President’s Cup Regatta around the Boracay and Tablas Strait waters.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388364 [Title] => Wide-open battle looms in Pres Cup regatta [Summary] => BORACAY  With four former winners on the start list, the 2007 President’s Cup Regatta could be an exciting battle among Asia’s topnotch yachts which are also vying for the inaugural e-Standard Insurance Boracay Series championship.
Reigning champion Centennial and past titlist Mandrake, Hi-Fidelity and Karakoa banner the field which were to start their in-shore races around Boracay and the Tablas strait yesterday afternoon.
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MANILA, Philippines — Alas Pilipinas team captain Jia de Guzman has tempered expectations on their chances against a heavily favored Vietnam and in the FIVB Challenger Cup that came off the wraps at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium yesterday.
But deep inside the soft-spoken and courageous skipper and the rest of Nationals, they all dream of the same big dream – a ticket straight to the Women’s Volleyball Nations League main group next year.
And their quest begins tonight when they square off with the Vietnamese at 6:30 p.m.
The home bet is the underdog versus the Vietnamese side that swept and dominated last month’s AVC Challenge Cup at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The Filipinas snatched a historic bronze there.
“Well, alam naman po namin na mas malakas ang kalaban and we know our team is young. All we can ask the girls is to do its best while not putting pressure on the team that much,” said the charismatic Alas team leader.
The team lost power spiker Eya Laure and libero Jen Nierva and were replaced by Creamline’s Jema Galanza and National University’s Bella Belen.
Belen’s teammate, Alyssa Solomon, and Galanza’s fellow Creamline star, Tots Carlos, were enlisted into the pool but will not be able to join due to undisclosed reasons.
“It’s great to have new reinforcements in the pool. Experience-wise, marami ang mako-contribute nila sa team,” said De Guzman of Galanza and Belen.
Intriguingly, Nierva’s last-minute withdrawal left the squad with one legitimate libero in Dawn Catindig.
Cherry Nunag was listed as the team’s second libero although she’s known as a natural middle blocker.
The other members of the team are Faith Nisperos, Fifi Sharma, Vannie Gandler, Julia Coronel, Angel Canino, Dell Palomata, Arah Panique, Thea Gagate and Sisi Rondina.
The trek to that VNL dream is long and arduous though as Alas Pilipinas would need to win all its games against Vietnam, the semis and eventually the finals, assuming it could make it that far, to realize it.
In the opener of the meet, Puerto Rico turned back a feisty Kenya 25-20, 25-19, 27-25, to advance to the semis.
Teenage sensation Grace Mar Lopez Villanueva went on attack mode and fired 19 points including 18 on kills while Diana Reyes scattered 10 hits.
Pamella Adhiambo Owino tried to put up a fight for the Kenyans by unloading a match-best 22 points. most of which came in the third set when they tried
to put up a fight and steal the set before eventually falling short in the end.
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