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PHL’s 12-man lineup to
FIBA Asia named

MANILA - Not surprisingly, late pool addition Beau Belga ended up the last cut in the 12-man final lineup coach Chot Reyes named to don the country’s colors in the coming 27th FIBA Asia Championship.

Making the cast are big men Marcus Douthit, Junmar Fajardo, Japeth Aguilar, Ranidel de Ocampo and Marc Pingris, wing men Gary David, Jeff Chan, Larry Fonacier and Gabe Norwood, and guards Jayson Castro, LA Tenorio and Jimmy Alapag.

Douthit, De Ocampo, David, Chan, Fonacier, Norwood and LA Tenorio are holdovers from the Gilas squad that reigned supreme in the 2012 Jones Cup in Taipei while Fajardo, Aguilar, Pingris, Castro and Alapag are those who joined the pool at the resumption of its training at the end of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup.

Silaynon chess player to
compete in Malaysia

National chess champion Marvin Ting of Silay City is headed for Malaysia next month to compete in the 8th AMBank Malaysian Chess Challenge 2013 scheduled on August 9 to 19, a press release from the Silay City hall said.

Ting, recently brought honors to the country and the Negrense community for bagging the championship in the Thailand Challenger Chess Tournament held at Dusit Thani Pattaya in Bangkok.

A former champion during his secondary years at Doña Montserrat Lopez Memorial High School, under the tutelage of coach Danilo Seva, Ting is a regular participant in local and national chess competitions.

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