Source: GMANEWS
Patrick Unso completed his gold medal sweep while Adel Valdecañas had his own record-breaking feat as the National Capital Region (NCR) athletes ended their dominating performance in the 2010 Palarong Pambansa at the Tarlac Recreational Park in San Jose town.
Unso and Valdecañas’ golden performances, plus the record-breaking feat of the NCR boys’ secondary swimming team, were of a big help for NCR as it already amassed 350 points, as of Friday, in the high school division to enjoy a 124-point lead over Western Visayas 226. Southern Tagalog (Region IV-B) is third with 218.
Standings in the elementary division remain unchanged with NCR also leading the way with 293 points followed by Western Visayas (207 and Southern Tagalog (186.67).
Unso, who just finished high school at the University of Santo Tomas, collected his third and fourth gold medals when he anchored both of NCR’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams.
He was joined by Rogemar Umingan, Joseph Capinpin and Miguel de Jesus in the 4x100m relay squad when they posted a time of 43.24 seconds to break Southern Tagalog’s 1995 record (43.60).
Central Visayas settled for the silver (43.80) while island neighbor Western Visayas bagged the bronze (43.89).
Unso captured his fourth gold in the 4x400m relay when he once again towed Team NCR – composed of de Jesus, Umingan and Eric Peruche – to a first place finish (3:28.52).
NCR track and field team breaks more Palaro records
Valdecañas equaled the NCR relay team’s golden performance when he snatched the pole vault mint in record-breaking fashion. He did not only break the Palaro record but also the National Junior mark.
The incoming La Salle Greenhills senior first cleared the bar at 3.85 meters to break the 3.80m set by NCR’s Christian Chua in the 1993 Palaro.
But Valdecañas was not yet done and went for the National junior mark of 4.00m by clearing the bar at a height 4.05m.
Western, Central Visayas and CALABARZON bets were not to be outdone and scooped up gold medals in their respective events.
Maika De Oro of Western Visayas shattered her own Palaro mark to win the secondary girls’ discus throw event with a distance of 36m to improve her old mark of 32.62m she posted in the 2009 Tacloban City Palaro.
Sarah Sunga of NCR won the silver but was behind by almost seven meters.
Joneza Mie Sustituedo, also of Western Visayas, also set a new mark in the elementary girls’ 1,500m run with a time of 4:57.69 to shatter the five-minute record of Jovel Ambagon In 1996.
She defeated teammate Aileen Abulan (5:06.6) and Jenalyn Alba of MIMAROPA (5:10.5) for the gold.
Central Visayas’ Daniel Noval, meanwhile, romped to his second gold medal when he tied a Palaro record in the 200m run with a time of 22.19 seconds equaling the mark of Ronald Caluanan of Cagayan Valley in 1998.
His first gold also tied another record by Caluanan in the 100m dash run with a time of 10.9 seconds.
He bested Jan Mark Mucho of Western Visayas, who came in second at 22.82 seconds, and Eduardo Ferrer, who came home with a bronze with a clocking of 22.84 seconds.
CALABARZON’s Vanessa Del Valle collected all the long distance events winning the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter run. She clocked 4:58.78 in the 1,500-meter run beating Ma. Jessa Valeriano of Western Visayas and Edlyn Barcelon of CALABARZON.
She then copped the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:45.13 beating Mae Perit of Northern Mindanao and Lizette Danol of Bicol Region.
Over at the pool, NCR and CALABARZON teams made new records to win the gold in both the relay events.
The Big City tankers – composed of Gabriel Lorenzo Castelo, Marciano Yiu, Gian Daniel Berino and Axel Steven Nguo – topped the 4x100m freestyle event with a new record of 3:43.83 to break the 2005 mark of 3:44.78 posted also by NCR.
CALABARZON won the girls’ event when Christine Grace Tan, Maria Aresa Lipat, Ariana Herranz and Erika Kristy Lukang finished in 4:10.18 to beat NCR’s 2009 record of 4:13.03.
Catherine Bondada continued CALABARZON’s onslaught at the pool when she collected her fourth gold medal by topping the 50m freestyle event with a time of 29.59 seconds.
Ariana Mikaela Canaya of NCR (30.27) and MIMAROPA’s Courtney Melissa Gray (30.84) settled for the silver and bronze medals.
Central Visayas’ Hipolito Banal, brother of pro boxer AJ, took the gold in the antweight class in the elementary division beating Wilfredo Pelongco III of NCR, 6-3.
The other gold medalist in the elementary class is Renz Orcada of Western Visayas (kiddieweight).
The gold medalists in the secondary division are Matthew Jagmis of MIMAROPA (powderweight), Anthony Sumagaysay of SOCCKSARGEN (mosquitoweight), Jason Jamper of CARAGA (paperweight) and Jeric Fernando of Zamboanga Region (pinweight), and Roldan Boncules of SOCCKSARGEN (light flyweight). – GMANews.TV
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