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UAAP: La Salle bags five championships

It started out with the DLSU Green Jins, who stormed through the competition and finished atop the league to bag La Salle’s first UAAP Season 76 championship. Then the DLSU Green Paddlers emerged as the top seed at the end of the UAAP Table Tennis eliminations after losing just one game. They eventually emerged as…

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Aldeguer watches history repeat itself as Green Archers overcome UST

After 40 minutes of basketball, the DLSU Green Archers and the UST Growling Tigers were tied at 65 points apiece and this called for an overtime period to settle the score. The best-of-three UAAP Season 76 finals between these two multi-titled squads was filled with historical anecdotes and old rivalries, yet nothing was brought up…

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Never shall we fail: The improbable rise of the Green Archers

The road to the championship may have been a tough one for the DLSU Green Archers, yet their entire season has been a testament to the growth of the squad, with their title-clinching victory proving that it was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears. Juno Sauler was named the team’s new head coach with…

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DLSC’s Speedy Gabby passes away

Former DLSU Green Archer Gabriel “Gabby” Liwag, a skipper during his time, died of a cardiac arrest last October 7, 2013 at 7:37 am. He was 56 years old. Following a stellar high school career as a member of the La Salle Greenhills Greenies, Liwag followed his older brothers and headed off to Taft Avenue…

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Green Journal: Jennifer Perkins

For the past five months, we have been following Jason Perkins’ journey from being a highly touted rookie to his inclusion as a part of the UAAP champion team through his Green Journal. Now, we get to hear it from his Mom, Jennifer Cahigas Perkins, who hails from Bolinao, Pangasinan. Mrs. Perkins flew all the…

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In Juno We Trust: The man behind the championship

“I’d rather be the best at what I do and not even be the champion as long as I know that’s my best potential,” shares rookie head coach Juno Sauler after he steered the DLSU Green Archers to the UAAP championship. Three weeks prior to the start of the season, Sauler took over as the…

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UAAP: Hail! Hail! Hail! Green Archers emerge as champions

It was once said that champions are made when no one is watching. Today, everyone in the Mall of Asia Arena witnessed the birth of a champion. In a game filled with gutsy drives and wild finishes, Jeron Teng willed the DLSU Green Archers into championship lore once again, grabbing a 71-69 win over a…

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UAAP Finals: Green Archers, Growling Tigers go for crown

There is nothing more exciting than a do-or-die game. The path to the UAAP basketball throne gets narrower as the days pass by, and both the DLSU Green Archers and the UST Growling Tigers know how every possession counts for this upcoming Finals Game Three. Trailing the Tigers 1-0 and facing elimination, the Green Archers…

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UAAP Finals: Fans versus Scalpers?

Fans line up for hours and exhaust their networks just to get tickets to support their teams and show school spirit. In the process, there remain those who dare to exploit the supply and demand of limited commodities. October 12, Saturday, will mark the last day of college basketball for UAAP Season 76. Students, alumni,…

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The historic La Salle victory of ’99

From The LaSallian’s Championship special, October 1999 October 9, 1999 was the fateful day that the last UAAP basketball match of the 20th century was played, pitting the DLSU Green Archers and the UST Growling Tigers against each other in the penultimate match of the finals. It was La Salle gunning for a back-to-back championship…