Tag: April 30

WITH TWO key players in limbo, the UST Lady Booters licked their bridesmaid scars anew as they dropped a 1-4 contest to UAAP champion Far Eastern University (FEU) in the 1st Philippine Football Federation–Ang Liga Filipina Football finals last March 31 at the Philsports football arena.

IT COULD have been a twin kill for the UST Tigresses.

The España-based cagebelles nearly delivered a peat of their title-clinching Season 69 campaign but fell short of that as the resurgent Far Eastern University (FEU) Lady Tamaraws gored them, 43-56, in the Home and Away Invitational League (HAIL) Finals last March 27 at the FEU Gym.

Throughout the game, coach Peque Tan’s wards struggled with their offense, particularly their perimeter shots, against FEU’s rugged defensive plays.

FOR UST Lady Woodpushers head coach Ronald Dableo, there is nothing more painful than being tagged as a cheat.

Serving a one-year suspension for alleged game-fixing, the International Master (IM) Dableo said that the decision by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) was both “inappropriate” and an “overkill” since only three players were found by the investigation committee guilty of the charges.

UST LADY Jin Esther Marie Singson is back in the national training pool early March after her two-year ban from joining international competitions due to alleged doping to win a South East Asian (SEA) Games gold.

“It feels great that the ban has finally ended,” Singson, the 2005 UAAP MVP, told the Varsitarian. “It is very heartwarming and I feel motivated to train harder.”

SHE WAS the tournament “dwarf” who feasted on giants.

Despite chocking in the homestretch, Thomasian poolshark Rubilen Amit proved naysayers wrong as she barged into the final round and captured the silver medal in the 2007 Amway World Pool Association (WPA) Women’s World 9-Ball Championship last April 8 in Taiwan at the expense of highly-rated opponents.

A 26-YEAR-OLD woman who allegedly stole around P152,000 worth of items from six UST Lady Spikers was caught by the UST security force last April 16.

The suspect, Annabela Peral Lising, almost got away with the players’ six cellular phones worth P150,000 collectively and a wallet containing P1800 after hiding them all inside her underwear, a report from the UST Safety and Security Services (UST-SSS) said.

DESPITE dropping all three of their elimination games to a more fancied Adamson squad, the UST Lady Batters defied the odds and scored a 7-0 victory over the Filomeno “Boy” Codiñera-mentored Lady Falcons to annex the Manila Youth Games (MYG) Softball title last April 12 at the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium.

The UST Lady Batters made it to the championship game by relying on a grand-slam from up-and-coming sophomore right fielder Gedda Valencia as they creamed a lowly Polytechnic University of the Philippines, 11-0.

WHILE controversies are staples in the histories of institutions everywhere, the University of Santo Tomas went through a rocky ten months last year. Controversies involving top UST officials and, at the national level, corruption charges versus government officials grabbed the attention of the Thomasian community.

But there were high points, such as sterling performances in the board exams and sports victories that will also make academic year 2007-2008 a memorable one.

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