1st royal mandaya hotel mini championships

another title conquest by the atene de davao 11-under blue knights.  the boys captured the 1st royal mandaya hotel mini division championships last saturday vs uic at the almendras gym.  the 1st championship for the year for the grade school blue knights.

catching up

i've been using this site as an example for my class on website design and the last entry was still way back december of 2009.  a lot has already transpired since then so i'm just going to recap events i have missed via photos.

to kick things off, i present our new bundle of joy: mico gabriel samante

(with ate gabby)

he was born on may 20th of this year, just in time before we left for the batang pba national finals

(batang pba team)

(regional championship trophy)

we were not successful in our batang pba stint but we all had fun.  the organizers treated us to free pba games and an ocean park tour and i finally got to greenhills.

(i got buzz & woody at greenhills to update our toy story collection)

now, it's the start of the basketball season, i'm not into a head coaching stint now but our teams are very successful nonetheless.  we are currently participating in four local tournaments.  the best center sbp-passerelle, the gaisano south cup, the 1st royal mandaya cup and the dacs tournament.

(addu team a warming up @ woodridge gym)

(addu team b)

(mandaya cup team)

this weekend, the mandaya cup team will be playing vs uic for the championship.  god bless to us.  go blue knights!

back to back regional champions

we made it as back to back regional champions in the sbp tournament of the best center over the weekend in tuna city, general santos.  the boys carved out a masterful game in beating xavier university cagayan in the championship game.  the xu team were very good in containing the best of our players for every quarter but they couldn't contain the rest of the team and in the final canto, we blitzed them, en route to another title conquest in the mindanao region.

kudos to the players, parents and supporters.

animo baby blue knights....on to the national finals we march again.

sidenote: we will be adding a new one to our family...wifey is pregnant with our second child.

national championship

we finally nailed a big one. in the first 3 on 3 national finals sponsored by growee, we emerged as its first national champions besting three other schools from manila, cebu and cagayan de oro city.  we have been playing since saturday and sunday was the culmination of all the hard work of the players.

prior to the national championships, all the teams fielded sweeped the 1st to 3rd places.  in the national finals, ateneo team a bannered by our team captain, jair igna, tsutumo tateishi, jeucharist binoya and co-captain vernon bonleon, bested the team from cebu, usc north campus via free throw shoot out.  final tally, 12-11.

it was a total team effort by the boys to withstand exhaustion from two days of basketball and emerge as the national champions.  jair was the local and national mvp of the tournament and i got the recognition as the best coach in the local leg and the national finals.

recognition goes out also to the other ateneo teams who competed and bested their local counterparts.  and to my co-coaches, frankie and henry.  we did this together and i share the recognition with you.

sidenote:

our sbp team will be going with our passerelle counterparts from the highschool in the regional finals.  we bagged the local sbp championships already. 

goodluck to the college blue knights as they try to get the regional championships of the pccl.

this has been a very busy year of basketball for the university and we all hope to add to our growing collection of championships for the year.

go blue knights!

baby blue knights and the blue knights

4 minutes & 38 seconds of the 3rd quarter and a full fourth quarter.  this is all that's left before we finish the first step of our goal to go bak to the sbp national finals.  this occured because of the unfortunate downpour we experienced during the original schedule of the championship game last sunday.  the gym got flooded and the organizers had t\no choice but to postpone the game.

this afternoon, our baby blue knights continue with our goal of making it as champions of the sbp local leg again.  the school have never had a hard time getting the local championships all the time.  after this afternoon, we will hopefully be getting ready for the regionals in gensan on october 17-18.  i will be updating this tomorrow with the result of this afternoons game resumption.

sidenote: the passerelle team of the school (which is also considered the baby blue knights) already bagged the local championships at the expense of the rival reds of the hcsd  78-77 last sunday.  they are already geared up for the regionals.  the college varsity(which are the blue knights)also bagged the collegiate championship against the um wildcats last night.

kudos to all the ateneo teams!

my first sbp team

i present my very first sbp team. we have accomplished a lot together for this school year, 4 championships for the school, a runner-up finish in the best center sbp national finals and the sportsmanship award in the same tournament. i can never thank this boys enough for the breaks they gave me during my coaching stint in the sbp but what is very important for me is the friendship we share.getting those championships is a very good feat but the friendship and camaraderie is the best i gained this year.

wishing you boys all the best in your basketball careers.

animo ateneo.

sbp national finals

haven't updated in a while because of a very hectic school schedule. but here it is, we won the regional finals and we are going to the national finals in iloilo. the national finals is set on november 22-23, 2008 and we will be facing the champions in the luzon, ncr and visayas legs of the milo-sbp tournament.

before we will be going there, 9 of the sbp boys participated in the mindanao childrens games together with 6 players from the gaisano team. they played for the gold medal against university of the immaculate conception and they got the gold with a 94-64 win. it was a good enough tune up for the 9 sbp boys who will be playing in the national finals.

we will be going to the national finals to enjoy the games, the camaraderie with fellow champion teams but if the chance to get the national title presents itself, we will not hesitate to grab that chance.

sbp local champions

we're at it again.
yesterday at the ladislawa gym, our sbp team won our nth local milo-sbp championship plum against acd. the boys played hard and they were rewarded with the championship. our road to the sbp nationals' next stop will be the regionals which will be this weekend.
congratulations boys!animo ateneo!

sbp road to the nationals

our team will begin our trek toward the road to the sbp nationals in two weeks.

over the weekend, the boys showed their defense limiting a high scoring acd team to only 19 points. next weekend we will be facing another offensive team in hcdc...hopefully the boys will still have the same defensive intensity they had againts acd and maintain that defensive intensity through out our trek back to the nationals.

(i'll just update this blog as we progress. see you in next week)

basketball 08-09

as of this writing, our sports coordinator has just informed me that i will be handling the team a of our basketball teams this year. more on this development as the sy progresses.

agony of defeat 2

"with the game clock ticking down, victory was imminent. the winning team had a comfortable lead and another championship will be added to their ranks."

this best describes the athmosphere of the final seconds of the game at the almendras gym yesterday when we took on acd for the championship of the cherifer under-12 mindanao leg tournament.

retribution was claimed as we got the better of them this time. after our gaisano gup loss last december, i was personally itching to get back at them at all costs. ironically, didn't need to wait very long for my time, after 2 months, i got to deliver another championship for the school making the school back to back champions for mindanao for the said tournament.

i guess, i have endured the agony of the defeat long enough to garner this new championship and add a medal to my collection and another trophy to the schools collection.

congratulations to my players! animo ateneo!

agony of defeat

i've been trying to come up with this ever since our first loss at the just concluded gs cup came. it was really hard to accept that we were defeated then.
we braced for another meeting with them having to win all of our remaining game assignments to be able to get back at them. we did sin with ease, sweeping all our remaining games. that winning streak came at a halt during the first game of the title series. we almost won..."almost" being the operative word. our opponents literally took game one away from us just like the way they took our victory during the first meeting.


blame it on inexperience, blame it on sloppy calls and officiating, blame it on anybody and anything under the sun....the fact remains...the opponents swept us in the title series 2-0.


in a basketball game, there are winners and losers...we were the latter. after 7 straight years as the champion, we finally got our first 1st runner up finish and trophy.


i was not able to get the championship i worked hard for this year...maybe next year i'll get a chance at redemption but for now, i must still endure the agony of defeat.

dethroned

our team has been dethroned as the national champions. ateneo de manila university succedeed us as the national champions for this years national tournament. we got the third place and the most coveted award which is the sportsmanship award.

we had no luck in gaining the ntaional title for the second time but we won something more valuable that the national title and it is the value of sportsmanship. regardless of who we meet in any tournament, we have proven that we can be competitive and fair in competition.

for all our efforts, animo ateneo!

new toys and our trip

shopped for my fbl win toy trophy yesterday. after 2 weeks i was finally able to buy my first comic 3 pack joes. i bought the pack with general abernathy, flint and tunnel rat. i almost missed on them because the last time i checked, i couldn't find the set, luckily last night, i saw one set so i decided to really buy it even if it would cost me some money....(it did cost me money.but i'm happy with my growing joe collection...it also cost me a lot because i was able to buy a loose fully poseable degeneration x triple h figure. now i'm in the look out for a fully poseable dx shawn...damn toys.so hard to find.hehehe.)

tomorow, we'll be leaving for iloilo for the milo-sbp national tournament. we are the defending champs in the sbp division so we will be defending our national title. hopefully, after this tournament, i will be able to buy another set of trophy toys. i plan on buying something from my allowance and i might end up buying the remaining comic 3 packs. (the one with zartan, fred and zarana, the dreadnoks and breaker, scarlett and hologam cobra commander. it's just a shame that these toys arrive here in our city late. all the good stuff are already sold out before we can get our hands on them. but this fact will not dampen my hopes of giving my joe collection another try. with all the figures available, i can more or less come up with close to 30 joe pcs both from the comics packs and the dtc's they've already released.)

will just post pictures of my new toys, hopefully with the other set i can buy when we arrive from iloilo. will also update on what happened there in the tournament once i get back.

sembreak

we spent the semestral break packing our things for our transfer to wifey's place. we are currently occupying the 2nd floor of their house...it seems that we are living in a condominium unit...:)

this is gabby's picture at our "new place". she is leaning at our bed.

part of my sembreak was buying my "trophy toys"....we recently won the regionals in the milo sbp and wifey granted me two new toys as my "trophy". i bought a spiderman figure, and my 2nd dtc gi joe footloose. i already have two joe's to my collection.(i started buying toys as trophy's when we won the championship for the basketball summer league in 2006. i bought my wolverine figure and from that time i began buying toys as trophies to help me remember the championships we won. i still haven't bought something from our recent fbl win.....have to go and check the mall for more joe's this weekend.)

back to back

this basketball year for us is all about defending titles. and we have been doing good at it.

recently, we bagged our 3rd championship in three weeks. our fbl boys successfully defended our championship from last year making us back to back fbl champions in the mini category. the boys defeated the uic team 52-38 to get our second fbl championship.

these are new boys that are playing for the fbl because they changed the age bracketing. we had grade 4, grade 3 and grade 2 kids playing this year unlike last year when we won our first championship, we had grade 5, grade 4 and grade 3 boys playing for the team.

the team also bagged two of the three individual awards. miguel belen of grade 3 got the mvp award for the 9 year old category and jeremiah aguilon for the 10 year old category.

congratulations!

champions....again

we are once again representing mindanao in the milo sbp-pasarelle national tournament. it's a third straight nationals appearance for our school, also the third nationals appearance for coach ice gravador and this is my second tour of duty for the nationals. the road to the nationals wasn't that easy for us. we had to escape defeat narrowly against sacred heart of jesus montessori from cagayan de oro. believe it or not, the final tally came at 35-33. that was how close we came to being denied an entry to the nationals for the third straight time. in fairness to the sacred heart boys, they really played a very good game...it was a game you really dread seeing one team lose...unfortunately for them, we escaped with the "w" and will be heading back to the nationals again.

we will be leaving for iloilo on the 16th of november for the national tournament and hopefully bag a second straight national title. it will be a tall order for us since one of the teams we will be going against is ateneo de manila university. as coach ice would say, " we go to the nationals and try to get the title...if we will be given the chance to get it, we try."

and so we begin the defense of our national title.....animo ateneo!

going back

the provincial campaign for our milo-sbp team has just been concluded and we are going back to the regional competetion to start our campaign for the national tournament. our boys won against assumption school of davao by a large margin. the game was played yesterday at the montaña gym here. one of our boy was named mvp. congratulations josh and to all of the sbp players...animo ateneo!