WVPRISAA retains secondary girls’ volleyball crown By Adrian Stewart Co The Western Visayas Private Schools Athletic Association (WVPRISAA) secondary girls’ volleyball team retained their PRISAA National Games title yesterday with a 25-16, 25-20, 25-14 win over Region XI at the University of Mindanao-Matina in Davao City. The team, which was comprised of Bacolod Tay Tung …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Drilon delivered Espinosa’s knockout blow
“It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.” –Carli Lloyd Many believe Senator Frank Drilon’s eleventh hour endorsement of Iloilo City lone district Rep. Jerry …
2019 PRISAA National Games
Bacolodnon runner bags second gold medal By Adrian Stewart Co After earlier capturing gold for the Western Visayas Private Schools Athletic Association (WVPRISAA) in the 2019 PRISAA National Games secondary girls’ 400-meter dash event, Hannah Jandra Boteros Delotavo of Bacolod Tay Tung High School yesterday earned her second gold medal of the games in the …
AFF U15 Girls’ Championship 2019
Philippines finishes fourth By Adrian Stewart Co The Philippine girls’ U-15 national team finished in fourth place in the AFF U15 Girls’ Championship 2019 following their recent 1-0 loss to Vietnam at the Institute of Physical Education Chonburi Campus Stadium in Thailand. A free kick by Tran Nhat Lan in the opening half was all …
Two PBA players suspended following ‘Spiderman’ incident
By Adrian Stewart Co Following the “Spiderman” incident that took place during the 2019 Honda PBA Philippine Cup finals earlier this month, where a court invader dressed in a Spiderman costume and interrupted Game 5, the PBA has since suspended San Miguel Beermen players Ronald Tubid and Kelly Nabong for their role in the event. …
TNT mauls NLEX in the Commissioner’s Cup
By Adrian Stewart Co Terrence Jones towed TNT KaTropa to a 102-87 win over the NLEX Road Warriors earlier this week in the 2019 PBA Commissioner’s Cup at the Ynares Center in Antipolo City. Jones, who signed a 10-day contract with the NBA’s Houston Rockets earlier this year, finished with a double-double on 41 points …
Two killed after truck plunges into Kabankalan City creek
Driver admits to being drunk and falling asleep at the wheel By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga At least two people were killed, while seven others were seriously injured, after a delivery truck plunged into a creek along Sitio Plasanon yesterday morning in Barangay Salong, Kabankalan City. Police identified the fatalities as Jenalie Alfonso, the reported …
Quake strikes Tayasan
A 2.0-magnitude earthquake was detected north of Tayasan yesterday morning, just before 8:25 a.m. A subsequent Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology bulletin reported no damages nor were there aftershocks expected for the Negros Occidental town. Quakes ranging between 1.0 and 3.0 in magnitude are often classified as a Level 1 on the Mercalli Intensity …
Negros Occidental suffers P4.6M in ‘livestock damage’ due to El Niño
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office recently revealed the province has suffered P4.6 million in damages to livestock due to ongoing El Niño conditions, which AccuWeather describes as a climate pattern that raises sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and results in drought conditions due to reduced rainfall. According to …
Bacolod City Legal Officer to Batapa-Sigue: Accept defeat
Bayatan says he welcomes an electoral protest By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga After Bacolod City mayoral candidate Jocelle Batapa-Sigue affirmed she would not concede defeat after last week’s midterm elections, Bacolod City legal officer, Atty. Joselito Bayatan, called on the former city councilor to “accept defeat.” According to the returns, incumbent Bacolod City Mayor Evelio …