Tag: December 13, 2006

UST TIGER Paddlers head coach Henberd Ortalla found grace in defeat when he lost against his former UST player Harold Baring in the 4th Huaching National Invitational Table Tennis Tournament last Nov. 12 at Mandaue City, Cebu.

Ortalla, who played for the Dotph-Philippine National Police (Dotph-PNP), looked headed to take Baring to school with an early 9-4 cushion in the fifth set, but UAAP Season 67 MVP Baring rallied against his former mentor for a 2-3 upset win.

WINNING off-season tournaments that are played almost everyday seems tough for UAAP champions UST Growling Tigers as they managed only two wins against nine setbacks this month alone.

Coming from their sterling UAAP championship, the Tigers are playing out-of-sync in two tournaments, bowing out early in the Flying-V Homegrown Cup with a 2-3 win-loss record, while still remaining winless in six games in the Philippine Basketball League (PBL).

BREATHING the air of redemption as early as the off-season, the UST Track and Field team staged a record-breaking tempest in the 12th National University Games last Oct. 23 to 29 at the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in Bacolod City.

The Male Tracksters rewrote the standards in seven events to top the men’s athletics competition with an 8-6-5 gold-silver-bronze medal harvest against the 7-7-2 and 2-2-4 outputs of UAAP rivals Far Eastern University (FEU) and Ateneo de Manila University.

FEARED and revered on local soil, Thomasian athletes will now bring their act on the international stage as they don the national colors in the upcoming 15th Asian Games on Dec. 1-15 at Doha, Qatar .

A total of 12 UST stalwarts, led by world champions Biboy Rivera and Jethro Dionisio and Olympians Tshomlee Go and Donald David Geisler II, will try to clinch medals in nine out of 17 sporting events to give the country a lofty finish in the 45-nation quadrennial meet.

COMPETENCE, moral integrity, simplicity.

Newly-installed UST Rector Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P. made it clear in his Nov. 9 installation address that his rectorship and in turn, the University, will be guided by these essential principles for the next four years.