Tag: 2001

DISPLAYING class and poise down the stretch, the Faculty of Pharmacy claimed the University’s Volleyball Intramurals plum against a gritty College of Science squad in a nerve-wracking five-set encounter, 23-25, 19-25, 25-12, 25-21, 15-11, last Nov. 21 at the UST gym.

Pharmacy’s resiliency paid dividends as it never gave up despite the strong start of Science, which took the first two sets.

DESPITE the stellar play of a returning key player, the UST Growling Booters lost steam in the crucial stages of the game to settle for a 1-1 draw against the Ateneo Blue Booters last Oct.30 at the Ateneo field.

Growling Booter Rodney Leyble, who sat out last year’s football competitions due to academic deficiencies, made a big splash in his return to action as he fired a goal straight to the Ateneo defense in the 11th minute to give UST the lead early in the first half.

AFTER a spoiled return trip to the finals last year, the UST Lady Booters are out to redeem themselves.

Back-to-back losses to title protagonists Far Eastern University and De La Salle University in the most crucial stretch of the tournament last season proved the killer blow to the España-based squad’s spirited campaign as it ended up short in their finals bid and settled for third place.

Rookie line-up

THE UST Lady Booters started the 64th UAAP Football season on the wrong foot as they yielded their opening game against De La Salle University, 1-0, last Nov. 28 at the Ateneo football field.

Hounded by the aggressive La Salle defense throughout the game, the Lady booters kept up in pace with Lady Archers game as they went for a standoff in the first half.

The Taft-based Lady Booters sustained their aggressiveness in the second half, working all-out on both ends of the field; offensively and defensively.

WITHOUT even breaking a sweat, the title-hungry UST Lady Batters shut out De La Salle University, 18-0, in a smashing opening game statement of their UAAP softball campaign last Nov.27 at the UST field.

Sending a roaring message to the rest of the teams, the Tigresses blanked their hapless Taft-based counterparts in what seemed to be an overkill as the umpire stopped the game midway in the fifth inning.

Even the absence of UST Head Coach Sandy Barredo was hardly felt by the Lady Batters who outclassed their opponents in every aspect of the game.

UST LADY Woodpusher Jaclyn Johnson is versatility personified. Her ability to manage her time between playing competitive chess and working as a nurse at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital is a feat not many could accomplish.

Johnson, taking up a masteral course in Nursing Administration at the UST Graduate School, leads contrasting lives on and off the playing arena.

The UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe, who were bridesmaids for the last two years, came to the Araneta Coliseum last Sept. 22 well-prepared and with one thing in mind –- to capture the Nestle Non-stop UAAP Cheerdancing competition and stop the University of the Philippines from duplicating the feat they carved in the record books four years ago.

But come performance time, UST’s acrobatic choreography was good only for third place as costly errors in execution cost them precious points.

KINAPOS ang pagbulusok at tumiklop ang UST-A Lady Tennisters laban sa defending champion na College of Saint Benilde, 2-1, sa Milo All-Students Tennis Tournament, noong Setyembre 2 sa Rizal Memorial Tennis Courts.

Nagtagumpay ang College of Saint Benilde dahil sa kagila-gilalas na laro ng kanilang pangunahing manlalaro na si Rona Bantay.

Tinalo ni Bantay ang nasa ikalimang puwesto sa top juniors ranking na si Tigress Julie Ann Cadiente, 8-3, sa unang singles match.

PLAYING the most dominant UAAP women’s basketball squad in recent memory, the UST Lady Tigresses had only two kinds of chances of making it to the final four: slim and none.

Needing a miraculous upset and an unlikely loss by the Far Eastern University Lady Tamaraws in the last playdate of the tournament, the Tigresses’ fate was not entirely in their hands.

With the completion of half of this year’s UAAP Table Tennis hostilities, the UST Paddlers are looking straight and seeing red — that is, a bullseye on their championship target.

The Tiger Paddlers are in second place behind unbeaten University of the Philippines, which is dead-set on exacting revenge on the Tigers who dealt it an unprecedented upset the previous season. The Lady Paddlers, on the other hand, hold the leaderboard in the women’s category after topping their adversaries in round one of competition.