Bacolod Tay Tung High School elementary girls and high school boys and girls’ athletics teams remain a force to reckon with in the Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports Cultural and Educational Association 32nd Season as they ruled their respective events during the competition held at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City.

Led by local sprint princess Mary Anthony Diesto, Hannah Malate, and Alyanah Pineda, the Tay Tung High School girls keep their title in secondary girls athletics while the high school boys team replicated the feat in their division.

BTTHS elementary girls’ ahletics teams also dominated the field, while their teammates in the boys’ side settled for first runner-up behind University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos.

Tay Tung also ruled the elementary boys’ lawn tennis, finished second runner-up in elementary boys and girls’ badminton, and third runner-up in high school boys and girls’ badminton.

The school also reigned in elementary boys and girls’ and high school girls’ chess, while and first runner-up in the high school boys’ competition.

Members of the BTTHS elementary girls’ chess team are: Ricci Nepomuceno (Board 1), Kate Nicolle Sadje (Board 2), Cherry Catherine Ng (Board 3) and Era Samantha Erica Gauma (Board 4). Eliakim finished first runner-up and Mansilingan Christian Academy and St. Scholastica’s Academy tied for third place.

Meanwhile, the Jim Jim Chua-mentored Trinity Christian School taekwondo athletes, who are also members of the NTU-Tigers club, captured gold medals in the NOPSSCEA elementary and secondary competition this year.

TCS-NTU Tigers Hannah Flores and Kathleen Dinsay bagged the gold in the elementary division, while flyweight Irene Bermejo and bantamweight Julienne Bermejo won the gold in secondary girls’ taekwondo. Jimbrey Chua hoisted the banner for TCS in secondary boys’ finweight category.

Other NTU Tigers who won their events were: St. John’s Institute’s Stephanie Lamayo in secondary girls’ finweight, and Anton Guinanao in secondary boys’ featherweight, University of St. La Salle’s Timothy Alcala in secondary boys’ bantamweight, Jason Locsin in secondary boy’s flyweight, and John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation’s Sam Arcigal in men’s flyweight.

Also copping the gold in the NOPSSCEA were the SJI taekwondo jins mentored by Vic Feria and Anthony Hilado, among them, Carl Lucky Masbaño (elementary boys), and Charlize Subardiaga and Caroline Espinosa (elementary girls).

Raymund Carlo Masbaño finished with a silver, while Cris Antoniette Hilado settled for the bronze for the SJI team that booked the overall championship in elementary girls category and second runner-up in the elementary boys department.

In lawn tennis, USLS topped the secondary boys’ competition with La Consolacion College-Bacolod grabbing the first runner-up honors and Bacolod Christian College-Negros, second runner-up, while LCC reigned in the girls’ division with USLS at second place.*NAB

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