April 27, 2024
Saturday
IT will be a long nine-day sabbatical for the students in the Metro Manila area starting Saturday, November 11, due to the country’s hosting of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) Summit. Even as classes (November 11-19, including twin Saturdays and Sundays) are suspended during the period, a drawn-out basketball-related work it will be for […]
MAYBE it’s the hype. Maybe it’s simply luck. Maybe it’s written in the stars. No matter what, the Philadelphia High School Panthers have been performing way above expectations in the ongoing Filipino-Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation (FCAAF) high school basketball competitions. Since dropping a tournament-opening 62-60 decision to Grace Christian College after blowing an 11-point lead […]
IT was a sterling campaign for Makati Gospel Church-New Life Christian Academy in Season 4 of the Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA), having topped five of the 10 events in the league’s sports calendar. A New Order in the PCYAA League has been established following the New Lifers’ title successes in 14-and-under Boys Aspirants […]
THIS is for real; this is for all the marbles. After a pair of postponements – first on February 23 because of a fire nearby the game venue and second on February 27 due to an impending nationwide transport strike – the deciding Game Three of the best-of-three Boys Juniors Division finals of the 4th […]
TWO-TIME defending titlist Saint Jude Catholic School downed Pace Academy, 72-69, Tuesday night, January 31, in the 4th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association Juniors basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym. With the victory, the Judenites wrapped up their elimination-round assignments with a tournament-leading 6-1 win-loss record and now are assured of at least […]
THE plot thickens in the Boys’ Juniors (High School) Division of the 4th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions held at the Uno High School gym. Going into the lone contest (host Grace Christian College vs. Saint Jude Catholic School) today, January 24 (7 p.m.), there is a four-way logjam atop the standings […]
SEASON 4 of the Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) league goes full blast today, January 12, with the resumption of the basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym. Action in the Boys’ Juniors (High School) Division commences on that day with Saint Peter the Apostle School taking on last year’s runner-up Philippine Cultural […]
THERE was a time in the 1960s 1970s and even 1980s when 10-year-old to 12-year-old school-based athletes taking part in official basketball competitions were designated by organizers to play in the derisively-sounding Mosquito Division, if not the so-called Mini Division. Moreover, their games served only as “appetizers” to the major high school cage tournaments. Nowadays, […]