Tag: Sports Feature

Key veterans guided the Lady Archers once again in their 57-39 demolition of the Our Lady of Fatima Lady Phoenix in the continuation of the Father Martin Cup Women’s division at the San Beda Gym yesterday. Nicole Garcia tallied a game-high 18 points while the returning duo of Cass Santos and Miller Ong combined for…

In the last three minutes of the Archers’ 80-73 triumph over the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, another unfortunate injury hit the boys in Green. As Luigi de la Paz scrambled to save a ball possesion, a Letran Knight forcibly grabbed his arm, resulting in a recurrence of his shoulder dislocation, technically a displacement…

The Green Archers started the Fil-Oil Flying V Pre-Season Hanes Cup opening day in defeat against reigning NCAA titlist San Beda Red Lions, 63-69 at the San Juan Arena last April 14. Head Coach Gee Abanilla breaks the game ball to basket. System failure We [Green Archers] ran away from our system. We did not…

Falling short of a Final Four stint in the last UAAP season, the DLSU Green Archers found itself back to the drawing board to formulate an improved game plan to bring back its lost brilliance. The result: a new coach and six exciting rookies. “They [rookies] are slowly getting into rhythm. They are slowly adjusting…

The LaSallian Excellence Award: JV Casio From a collegiate standout to a national floor general, Casio has proven himself as an excellent leader even in the international and professional world of basketball. Today, he is the focal point of the Powerade Tigers’ offense in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). With an amazing performance in the…

Two minutes can make or break destiny. In the last stretch of a UAAP Season 61 Football Championship game, two teams were competing to finally score a goal. A shy 17-year-old Sophomore, Marielle Mayo Benitez, defined two, but arguably the most important seconds of that game. Seeing an opening, Marielle took the shot that won…

The DLSU Green and Lady Booters are set to redeem themselves after failing to reach the finals of last year’s UAAP Men’s and Women’s Football Championships. Both teams were pegged at third place with the Green Booters four points adrift of second seed UST, and the Lady Booters five points behind their FEU counterparts. The…

Two matches of the Green-and-White squad in the UAAP Season 74 Men’s Volleyball Tournament did not go as expected. The Green Spikers started with a 1-1 win and loss record after facing the top and the bottom squads of the previous season. With a mixed of seasoned veterans and five promising newcomers, last year’s 3rd…

On DLSU’s centennial year, Coach Franz Pumaren and Joseph Evans “JV” Casio start their new careers in different teams. Pumaren, mentor of five DLSU UAAP men’s basketball champion squads, is now the head coach of PBA’s newest team, Shopinas.com Clickers. Another Archer, Joseph Evans “JV” Casio, brought the Animo pride on a bigger battle as…

Following the resignation of Dindo Pumaren, Coach Gelacio “Gee” Abanilla is the newly appointed head coach of the Green Archers. Coach Abanilla once donned the Green-and-White jersey as a part of the Pumaren-led championship teams in 1989 and 1990. After his UAAP stint, the 7-Up Bottlers in the fourth round of the 1983 PBA (Philippine…