ABAP NATIONAL FINALS KICK OFF IN BOHOL
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 04 Mar 2012
CARMEN, Bohol ? Around 140 boxers from 25 teams from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao fired off hostilities Sunday in the PLDT-ABAP National Amateur Boxing Championship in this town 57 kilometers north of Tagbilaran, the provincial capital.
Representing Luzon are Team Buddy Andrada, Mandaluyon, Tayabas and Puerto Princesa; Visayas has Mandaue, Cebu City, Negros Occidental, Bago City, Dumaguete, Northern Samar, Leyte, Maasin, and Tagbilaran; and Mindanao has Davao del Norte, Zamboanga, GenSan, Camiguin, Manolo Fortich, Misamis Oriental, Sarangani, Cabadbaran, Gingoog, Adlayan, Datu Puti and Asuncion.
Carmen Mayor Conchita Torribio delos Reyes, granddaughter of 1932 Olympics bronze medalist Simeon Torribio, and Tagbilaran Mayor Dan Neri Lim welcomed the participants as well as RP boxing officials led by ABAP president Ricky Vargas, secretary-general Patrick Gregorio and executive director Ed Picson, PLDT AVP Dodie Lucas, and Smart Sports? Epok Quimpo.
?This is what grassroots development is all about. ABAP makes sure we go to the countryside to be able to flush out raw talent that would have otherwise been left unnoticed,? said Vargas, the Philippine Sportswriters Association 2011 Executive of the Year.
?It?s easier for us to go to them than for them to come to us. And were are heartened to see so many who have come out to show their wares. I?m confident we will see a lot of potential here.?
Two AIBA officials graced the opening ceremony and later held a seminar and conducted a licensing examination for 15 national referees seeking to earn international status as ring officials, including a female referee from Mongolia.
The RP women?s team likewise held exhibition four-rounders with counterparts from Sri Lanka.
Day Two of the competition Monday will be held in Maribojoc, Bohol.
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