Metro Dagupan dominates PRISAA Region I Games anew
THE Metro Dagupan Division amassed 86 gold, 28 silver, and 20 bronze medals, retaining the over-all leadership in the recently conducted 23rd PRISAA (Private Schools Athletic Association) Region I Collegiate Games at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen.
Metro Dagupan Team, represented by some 170 athletes and officials mostly from the University of Luzon (UL), Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU), Pangasinan Merchant Marine Academy IPAMMA), and Colegio de Dagupan (CdD), played supreme in most of the team and individual events, including volleyball, beach volleyball, karatedo, taekwondo, table tennis, all in men and women categories, and sepak takraw and basketball men.
Meanwhile, Metro San Carlos, represented by some 100 athletes and officials mostly from the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF), ruled in athletics, men and women, where it notched 33 gold, 22 silver, and 2 bronze medals out of its overall total of 35 gold, 43 silver, and 16 bronze medal tally.
The total medal tally of the other PRISAA Divisions showed Laoag City-Ilocos Norte reaping 5 gold, 31 silver, and 14 bronze medals for third place. La Union took fourth place with 4 gold, 30 silver, and 42 bronze medals. For fifth place, Pangasinan I & II had 2 gold, 8 silver, and 12 bronze medals.
PRISAA Ilocos Sur did not participate in this year’s Games.
Five of the six PRISAA Divisions competed in eleven (11) individual and team sports and events in which the gold medalists will represent PRISAA Region I in the 2013 PRISAA National Collegiate Games on February 10-16 to be held in Lingayen and Dagupan City.
The four-day 23rd PRISAA Region I Collegiate Games was held on November 5-8 and was supported by the provincial government, Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Pangasinan School of Arts and Trade (PSAT), Provincial Schools Division of Panngasinan I (DepEd), Schools Division of Dagupan City (DepEd), and the private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Region I.–Philamer C. Celi
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