Tag: November 15

THOMASIAN alumnus Jethro “The Jet” Dionisio led the Philippine shooting team in nabbing the Team Open division’s grand prize in the 16th International Practical Shooting Confederation World Shoot in Rhodes, Greece from October 2 to 9.

The 39-year-old six-time world pistol-shooting champion, alongside 15 other Filipino marksmen, represented the country to the Olympics of practical shooting. The squad topped the team category of Super Seniors’ division.

Dionisio also emerged as the champion in the Shoot-off event of the Production division, besting eight other gunners in the tournament.

WOODPUSHER Patrick Florendo sizzled with five points to finish third in the grand finals of the 19th Shell National Youth Active Chess Festival at the SM Megamall Event Center last October 8 and 9

Despite a dismal 2-6 win-loss card on the competition’s first day, Florendo, winner of the Southern Luzon leg, managed to rack up a total of five wins against four defeats in the junior-boys’ division.

“I guess, lack of training [due to schedule rift with Finals week] really affected my game,” Florendo said, the only Thomasian who qualified in the tournament. “I could have done better if there was more time for training.”

THEIR hope of a UAAP Women’s Volleyball crown went straight to the dustbin as the UST Volleybelles failed to prevent the Far Eastern University Lady Tamaraws from sweeping the tournament, losing in four sets, 19-25, 25-20, 12-25, 24-26, last Sept. 22 at the UP College of Human Kinetics Gym.

With the UST Lady Spikers still groping for form, FEU, anchored on the fearsome tandem of Monica Aleta and Joanne Bunag, pounded the Tigresses to take the first set, 25-19.

WITH only three championships to show after the first semester, University of Santo Tomas (UST) trails De La Salle University (DLSU) in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) general championship race with its accumulated 99 points compared to the latter’s 104.

UST’s domination of both the men’s and women’s table tennis and men’s volleyball tournament, plus several runner-up finishes, proved to be enough to keep it in pace with league-leading DLSU.