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IN A SHOWDOWN of collegiate hoops champions, the UST Growling Tigers emerged triumphant for their resiliency down the stretch.

Reigning Universities Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) titlist UST again withstood end-game pressure to down National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champions San Beda Red Lions in a 74-71 come-from-behind win in the Unity in Sports basketball exhibition last Feb. 25 at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium.

UST’S COLLEGIATE sports supremacy has been reaffirmed as the mighty Tigers registered sensational performances all year long to devour the opposition of all sorts and empower the University to its ninth straight UAAP overall crown.

Fabled UAAP Mythical Five member Jervy Cruz, UAAP Finals MVP Jojo Duncil, UAAP Sixth Man Dylan Ababou, and UAAP Coach of the Year Pido Jarencio highlighted UST athletes’ conquest of UAAP titles after leading the Tigers to a Cinderella finish to bring the men’s basketball diadem back to España after 10 years.

SUSPENDED for a year for alleged game-fixing during last year’s Tanauan Open and 2nd Prospero Pichay Cup, UST Lady Woodpushers head coach and International Master (IM) Ronald Dableo has appealed for a reinvestigation of his case from the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP).

REIGNING UAAP champions UST Tennisters’ tentative on-ball defense faltered against the powerful hits of the Kobe Gakuin University of Japan in an exhibition game held last March 3 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium Tennis Court.

“Our opponents are very precise with their strokes and we are hoping to achieve that skill, now that we already played with them,” UST ace Wilbur Orillano said.

Orillano lost in singles action to Taira Masaya, who practically led the entire game, 4-6, 2-6.

KNOWN for their resiliency under pressure, the UST Golden Sox chose to stick with their fighting image at crunchtime.

And the trick paid off as the Golden Sox overcame a rough start and the spirited challenge of darkhorse Adamson University to claim its second UAAP baseball title in three years via an emphatic 2-0 finals sweep last March 4 at the Rizal Memorial Ballpark.

WHAT do Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Kris Aquino have in common?

They are all victims of what Jeff Jarvis of the City University of New York said as the “one-size-fits-all” disease plaguing the media.

Almost every media outfit is covering the death of Anna Nicole Smith, dubbed as the “poor man’s Marilyn Monroe,” and Kris Aquino’s shaky marriage with James Yap, who allegedly had an affair with a receptionist of the Belo beauty clinic.

THE UST Fencing squads held on to fourth place with a 1-1-6 gold-silver-bronze medal tally in the two-day UAAP fencing tournament at the Blue Eagle Gymnasium last Feb. 11-12.

Starting the preliminaries in good form, UST rammed into superior opposition in the ensuing matches and suffered dismal performances in some divisions to settle for a non-medal finish like last year.

WITH THE creation of the UST Sports Science laboratory under its auspices, the College of Rehabilitation Sciences (CRS) will now play a major role in the physical conditioning of the University’s athletes.

CRS instructor Angelito Guilas said the new facility should provide a better sports training program for athletes, improving their performance.

SHE FOUGHT tooth and nail to give the country its first Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) taekwondo gold medal, only to find out two months later that she could be stripped of the title.

Thomasian Esther Marie Singson, the SEAG 2005 bantamweight division titlist, is in danger of losing her medal after coming out positive for diuretics in a urinalysis conducted by the Philippine Center for Sports Medicine (PCSM) after the biennial multi-sports meet.

DESPITE having a tough off-season schedule, the hard-fighting UST Growling Tigers are showing that they can be a force to reckon with next season.

With balanced scoring and a surprisingly improved defense, the Growling Tigers dominated in the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Games, scoring an average of 84.2 points per game. The Tigers won all its eight games in the tournament.