Pacquiao, Gov. del Rosario feted in SKC Awards • Corteza is Hall of Famer SARANGANI Province Representative Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao and Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario are also both awardees in the 20th annual So Kim Cheng Sports Awards set on July 22 at the Grand Regal Hotel in Davao City. Pacquiao, reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award while Gov. del Rosario, whose province co-hosted the PRISAA National Games, will get the Sports Leadership Award. Karateka Gabriel Quinones and chess player Ella Grace Moulic, both 15, are this year’s Male and Female Athlete of the Year, respectively. Quinones, a 4th year high school student of Brokenshire Science High School, bagged 2 gold medals and 1 silver in the 15th Malaysian Milo Karatedo Open Championships held June 6-8 in Kuala Lumpur. Moulic, a senior high student of Holy Cross of Davao College, pocketed 4 gold medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championships held in Macau, China. She also emerged champion in the girl’s Under 16 of the 2014 NCFP National Age-Group Championships last April in Quezon Province and in the Batang Pinoy Grand Finals last February in Bacolod City. “This year’s SKC Awards is much bigger with more raffle prizes,” said John Irene del Campo of SKC Group of Company at the SCOOP Session of The Royal Mandaya Hotel last Tuesday. Also present at the weekly public service sports program sponsored by TRMH, Genesis 88, Beefit Gym and Mulatto Outdoor was Coach of the Year awardee Rommel Tan of the Association for the Advancement of Karatedo (AAK) Davao. Tan is tied with Moulic’s father-coach Alfred of the Holy Cross of Davao College Chess Club. Cue artist Lee Van Corteza will be the recipient of the Hall of Fame while plaques of recognition will be given to the Sports Communicators Organization of the Phils. (Scoop) Davao, Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) and veteran photographer Rene “Tatay” Lumawag of Mindanao Times. Posthumous awards will go to the late sports editor Ramon Maxey of the Edge and chess arbiter and former national master Samuel Yu of the National Chess Federation of the Phils. (NCFP) XI. “In behalf of the NCFP, I thanked the SKC family for the posthumous award of Sammy,” said NCFP XI Director James Infiesto. The list of outstanding athletes are: arnis – Klienn Mataverde & Dianalyn Alcain; athletics – Sony Wagdos & Langie Mae Meder; baseball – Lowie John Chan; badminton – Arthur Samuel Salvado Jr. & Jennifer Helyn Saladaga; boxing – Brix Catipay; basketball – Janrex Tahanlangit & Lyndabler Sangco; chess – Earl Rhay Mantilla & Exiquila Apao; dancesport – Rodel Banal & Myrthle Chlloee Ramos; duckpin bowling – Marcelino de Guzman & Mercy del Mar; football – Agot Danto; judo – Wilson Bonhoc & Desiree Inciso; karatedo – Josh Andrew Worsley & Carmela Marie Estarija; lawn tennis – Jennie Celine Dizon; motocross – Jeven Lagrada; sepak takraw – Christian John Altovar; softball – Evelyn Tampos; swimming – Ernie Gawilan & Zoe Marie Hilario; taekwondo – Joshua Mangibunong & Fharmaine Penanueva; table tennis – Smith Billy Catera & Lindy Marie Darlo; tenpin bowling – Ian Neil Ancheta & Crystal Christine Chavez; volleyball – Jeff Mark Agang & Nicole Frando; wushu – Evita Elise Zamora. Special citations will be given to the two blind judokas Edmond Montecillo and Bia Himpit of the Davao School for the Blind for both winning the gold medals in their respective categories in the 2014 Araw ng Dabaw Judo tournament held March 15. “They both beat their opponents who are not blind,” said Tan, also public relations officer of DCSC. Team awards will be given to the AAK Davao mixed team for winning the gold in the 15th Malaysian Milo Karatedo Open Championships in Kuala Lumpur; 2014 Palarong Pambansa gold winners Region XI girls’ team lawn tennis doubles, Region XI boys’ table tennis doubles and Region XI girls’ team badminton doubles; and Daciba-Homers team for men’s division duckpin bowling champion. SKC Awards will also recognize the different outstanding sponsors Emcor Davao, NCCC Mall, Kijoji Lions Club of Tokyo and Zoofari Kids Adventure. City Mayor Rody Duterte and Vice Mayor Pulong Duterte are both invited to grace the affair set at 6 p.m. at the Luzon Ballroom of the Grand Regal Hotel. Also invited are City Administrator Melchor Quitain and former Olympian Akiko Thompson of the Philippine Sports Commission. – LITO DELOS REYES
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:38:18 +0000