Gilas-PH ‘better off sans injured Abueva’
By Musong R. Castillo
Alaska coach Luigi Trillo has likened Calvin Abueva’s injured right knee to a punctured tire that’s ready to give out any moment.
Alaska coach Luigi Trillo has likened Calvin Abueva’s injured right knee to a punctured tire that’s ready to give out any moment.
Antonio Lascuña sizzled on the front nine of the Palmer course yesterday to fire a six-under-par 66 and catch Carl Santos-Ocampo at the top after two rounds of the ICTSI Orchard Championship.
Gilas-Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes just lost another member of his national pool with Sonny Thoss of Alaska scheduled to have his injured back treated in China.
Veteran Mars Pucay and Carl Santos-Ocampo assembled bogey-free 4-under-par 68s yesterday to share a one-stroke lead over a bunch of pursuers after the first round of the ICTSI Orchard Golf Championship at Palmer course here.
Everyone thought Alaska owner Wilfred Uytengsu had gone nuts when he appointed Luigi Trillo—zero for 28 as a UAAP coach and winless in a short stint on the bench in the D-League—coach of the Aces in the PBA.
There was a semblance of a game this time, and it only made Alaska’s return to PBA glory all the more sweet.
LA Tenorio, on course toward a banner year, won the biggest individual achievement of his career in the PBA last night after he was named the Commissioner’s Cup’s Best Player over Alaska’s Calvin Abueva.
OUTSIDER Divine Eagle, ridden by an equally underrated rider in Mark Alvarez, nipped Hot and Spicy by a nose yesterday to rule the P3 million first leg of the Triple Crown championship at the new Metro Turf race track in Malvar, Batangas.
ANGELO Que, the former Philippine Open champion and multiple Asian Tour leg winner, joins the ICTSI Tour for the first time this year in the company of the other big guns in the Orchard Championship in Dasmariñas, Cavite, starting Wednesday.
MORE than clinching its 14th PBA title with no less than a sweep, Alaska takes to the floor today looking to regain old glory under a coach owner Fred Uytengsu gambled on following the sudden departure of Tim Cone for greener pastures last year.
Hot start, cold start—it really didn’t matter. Alaska still has complete mastery of Barangay Ginebra. The Aces wiped away an early seven-point deficit with ease and all but crushed the spirits of the Gin Kings with a 104-90 win last night in their PBA Commissioner’s Cup title playoffs at Mall of Asia Arena.
THE WIDE-OPEN first leg of this year’s Triple Crown series, featuring 11 of the country’s finest three-year-olds, gets off the ground today at the new Metro Turf racetrack in Malvar, Batangas.
Alaska coach Luigi Trillo believes his Aces didn’t get anything other than a 1-0 lead by winning Game 1 of their PBA Commissioner’s Cup title series with Barangay Ginebra.
