Philippine bid sputters as SEAG nears close 11/19/2011

‘WE MISSED A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES’

Philippine bid sputters as SEAG nears close

11/19/2011
PALEMBANG, Sumatra — Comparable to the mid-day gloom here was the Philippines’ search for gold medals that now counts on the late afternoon and night events for recovery in the 26th Southeast Asian Games also being played in Jakarta and West Java.

Four bronze medals delivered by the men’s sabre fencing team of Walbert Mendoza, gold medalist in the singles, Giancarlo Nocom, Eric Brando II, wakeboard squad of Samantha Bermudez, Carlo de la Torre and Mark Griffith, and Efren “Bata” Reyes and Reynaldo Grandea in 3 cushion carom of billiards, were all the Filipinos had to show in the early afternoon of Friday.

With 12 sports done with, the Filipinos have still live bets in 27 others, possessing sterling chances in eight of them, but the odds of at least matching their 2009 fifth place finish in Laos two years ago do not appear kosher..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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