PBA FANS are hoping it will not be a broken vow. Columbian Dyip recently insisted it would be keeping its top overall selection in the 2018 PBA Rookie Draft on Dec. 16.
Dyip team governor Bobby Rosales allayed the fears of the basketball fans. He said the team intends to use the top selection to draft Lyceum of the Philippines Pirates star Jaymar Perez.
“We will draft him and we will keep him,” Rosales said on the NCAA Season 93 and PBA Developmental League MVP awardee. “Promise, we will keep the (No. 1 pick) this time.”
PBA fans have yet to forget what happened last year. The franchise made a surprising move by choosing to trade away its coveted No. 1 selection to San Miguel Beermen in exchange for a slew of reserve players.
That No. 1 pick turned out to be Filipino-German Christian Standhardinger while the role players the Dyip received were Ilonggo Ronald Tubid, Rashawn McCarthy and Jay-R Reyes.
That decision affected heavily Dyip’s campaign the 2017-2018 PBA Season where it had a 6-27 win-loss slate — finishing at last place in Philippine Cup with 1-10 slate, ninth in Commissioner’s Cup with 4-7 card, and last again in Governors’ Cup with 1-10 card.
Dyip head coach Johnedel Cardel, for his part, said he already has prospects on who to select but he leaves it up to the management on who to pick in their selection.
“Meron na akong choice kung sino. Sa boss na lang namin. After this one week, usap kami kung sino ang kukunin namin. Kailangan ‘yung makakatulong sa team namin,” said Cardel.
“Kinakailangan ‘wag masayang para walang magulo sa team namin. Kailangan namin energy guy eh. Tapos he can defend, tapos trapping defense. Gusto namin mabilis ang laro,” he added. “We will definitely bounce back next season.”
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Municipality of Pavia claimed the overall championship in the elementary and secondary category of the Iloilo 2nd Congressional District Sports Association Meet 2018 in Pavia, Iloilo.
Pavia amassed 78 golds, 86 silvers and 71 bronzes to run over the other competing towns and send the most number of athletes from the second district to the Integrated Meet.
Pavia claimed the overall title in elementary with 39 golds, 30 silvers and 24 bronze medals — including championships in boys and girls volleyball.
Finishing behind Pavia were Santa Barbara (29-45-18), San Miguel (20-9-23), Leganes (16-11-15), Leon (11-13-9), Alimodian (10-11-18), Zarraga (6-7-16), and New Lucena (6-7-5).
In secondary level, Pavia also bagged the overall title with 39-56-47 gold-silver-bronze medal haul, including medal performances from chess players Kyle Velez, Ardin Apostol, Trina Apostol and Aynn Joaquin.
In second place was Santa Barbara with 39 golds, 30 silvers and 30 bronze medals, followed by Leganes (31-24-23), Leon (21-16-15), Zarraga (20-15-32), San Miguel (18-7-12), Alimodian (17-23-21), and New Lucena (14-14-24).
Among the sports played in the four-day event were archery, athletics, arnis, badminton, baseball, basketball, billiards, boxing, dance sports, football, futsal, gymnastics, Paralympics, pencak silat, sepak takraw, sipa, softball, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, lawn tennis, and wushu./PN
