SAN JACINTO, now under the leadership of Mayor Rolando Columbres, promises to be another sport central after it successfully launched its first three-week long sportsfest. Dubbed as the “San Jacinto Mini-Olympics 2006” tat started last April 22, the town’s residents have started to see compete in basketball, volleyball, cycling, lawn…

The victorious Shooters of the Dagupan Practical Shooting Association (DPSA) collected 16 individual trophies and a team trophy in the recently concluded Mayor Benjamin S. Lim Cup Invitational Shootfest and Area 2 Philippine Practical Shooting Association (PPSA) Circuit Match. The shootfest was held April 8-9 as part of the Dagupan…

Six top women’s collegiate beach volleyball teams from Metro Manila and Baguio City are competing in the 2006 Bangus Festival Women’s Invitational beach Volleyball Championship slated from April 28 to May 1 at Dagupan City Plaza. Leading the entries are Boracay national Championship qualifiers De La Salle University – College…

SOME of Pangasinan’s prominent cyclists are ready to swap their sleek racing bikes for the bulky mountain bikes lead when they join a mountain bike race in Bauang, La Union on April 27. The riders to be led by the strong Jazy Sportswear – sponsored Pitaki Boyz team will see…

LET the gaymes begin. The second leg of the elimination rounds of the “Basketball Gaymes -Battle of the 3rd Kind” and the search for the “Bangus Festival King and Queen” held at San Jacinto and Mangaldan on April 8 and 9, provided fun and excitement and drummed up the staging…

NINETEEN Pangasinan professional-amateur cyclists, who hurdled the two-day qualifying races last February 12 and 13, will vie for honors in the annual summer bikathon ‘Tour Pilipinas ‘Padyak Pinoy’ on May 11-21. As in the past three years, the province’s “boys of summer” will be led again by 2003 Tour Pilipinas…

THE much awaited First Mapandan Invitational Motocross Challenge will be held today in conjunction with the celebration of the town’s fiesta. According to Mayor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, Jr., who led the organization of this two-wheeled event and the first of its kind to be held in his town, the Mapandan…

THE province’s newly-formed national squad basketball team called “Pangasinan Hundred Islands” in the National Basketball Conference (NBC), tests its mettle in its home court by clashing with the North Cotabato Braves on April 7 at the Urdaneta City Sports and Cultural Center at 4:00 p.m. The local team which suffered…

THE Webczars learned a big lesson in their first meeting when their defenses collapsed in the fourth and final quarter to yield a close 104-100 decision despite taking a huge 20-point lead at the first half. Then they came back with a vengeance and said “enough is enough”, bringing in…

THE 1st RC-CIDG Invitational Golf Tournament under the stewardship of Col. Federico “Jun” Castro and chaired by Col. Manny Velasco is set on April 2, 2006 (Sunday) at the Dagupan Golf and Beach Club. The tee off time will be from 6:00 to 8:00 AM. Awarding ceremonies and dinner will…