June 20, 2026
Saturday
HAIL to Saint Jude Catholic School, the new 18-under Boy Juniors champion in the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball festivities. The Judenites whipped Season 5 host Jubilee Christian Academy, 67-55, in the decisive Game Three of the best-of-three titular series to regain the Boys Juniors crown it surrendered to MGC New Life […]
THE more, the merrier. Out there in the Metro is another high school basketball league named the Mondes Cup 12th Filipino Chinese Schools Alliance Basketball League (FCSABL) or simply the Alliance Basketball League. This year’s one-month competitions have attracted seven Chinese-Filipino schools. These are the Philippine Institute of Quezon City, Philippine Sun Yat Sen High […]
LIKE their male counterparts, girls just wanna have fun, too. It’s three-time defending titlist Uno High School against host school Jubilee Christian Academy in the best-of-three Finals of the 18-Under Girls Juniors basketball competitions in Season 5 of the Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association. Completing the double-round elimination phase with identical 9-1 records, each team […]
DESERVEDLY so, it’s the top two seeds that will face each other in the best-of-three Finals of the 18-under Boys Juniors basketball competitions in the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association. Unblemished No. 1 seed Saint Jude Catholic School and No. 2 seed Jubilee Christian Academy made short work of their respective semifinal opponents to […]
TOP-seeded Saint Jude Catholic School takes on eighth-seeded Grace Christian College on Wednesday, February 7, at the start of the quarterfinal playoffs of the 18-under Boys Juniors division in the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym in Tondo, Manila. Last year’s second-placers, the Judenites finished the […]
TEAM STANDINGS: BOYS JUNIORS DIVISION Jubilee Christian Academy (4-0), Saint Jude Catholic School (4-0), Philippine Cultural College (3-2), Saint Stephen’s High School (3-2), Pace Academy (3-2), MGC New Life Christian Academy (2-3), Uno High School (1-5) and Grace Christian College (0-6) GIRLS JUNIORS DIVISION Jubilee Christian Academy (6-0), Uno High School (4-1), Saint Jude Catholic […]
DEFENDING champion MGC New Life Christian Academy opened its title-retention bid in the 18-under Boys Juniors Division of the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions with a 67-40 rout of Uno High School last Sunday at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan City. The New Lifers got off to a […]
HEREUNDER is Part II of our team-by-team preview of the eight-school, 18-Under Boys Juniors basketball competitions in the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association, a Chinese-Filipino high school sports league in the Metro Manila area. SAINT JUDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL – Now that do-everything Maynard Yap (14.5 ppg, 8.1 rpg and 1.23 blocks) has completed his […]
SEASON 5 of the Chinese-Filipino school-based sports league, the Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA), goes full blast with basketball action in the 18-under Boys Juniors and Girls High School divisions (after the 12-under Developmental and 14-under Aspirants and the start of competitions in Girls High School volleyball, table tennis (boys and girls), chess and […]
HE’S currently an Alaska Aces rookie in Asia’s first professional league, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He once was a King Archer, collecting a pair of title rings (2013 and 2016) in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) during his five-year stay (2012-16) at De La Salle University. But, he, too, was a […]
LONG before Emmanuel (Manny) Pacquiao came into our national consciousness, there was Gabriel (Flash) Elorde, who many sports fans considered as the greatest boxer in Philippine sports history with his illustrious seven-year reign as the world champion in the super featherweight or junior lightweight division during the 1960s. I am writing about Elorde because today, […]