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PH soft netters bag 4 medals

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SUNCHANG, Korea—National Collegiate Athletic Association soft tennis standouts Princess Catindig of San Beda College and Ana Saguiped of the University of Perpetual Help Systems Dalta spearheaded the Philippines’ 4-medal output in the recent Korea University Soft Tennis Championships at the red claycourts inside the Sunchang Sports Complex here.

Catindig and Saguiped turned back the Park Chu Yong-Yang Yob Bin pair of Dankook University, 5-2, and the Kim Hyo Em-Kim Su Yuong tandem of Dan Hu University, 5-1, to barge into the finals of the women’s doubles event.

The Filipina duo, both NCAA Season 91 soft tennis finalists, however rammed into the solid groundstrokes and tricky underhand serves of Waseda University Japan’s Nagai Rika and Uehare Yuka and lost the championship match, 2-5, for the silver medal.

SBC’s Alyanna Viloria and Guia Arzaga tripped Kim Hyo Em and Kim Su Yuong, 5-3, to salvage the bronze medal in the soft tennis international tournament supported by sports patron BGen Dr Antonio L. Tamayo, the Philippine Olympic Committee, PSTA president Col. Jeff Tamayo and the Philippine Sports Commission.

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In the singles’ division, Saguiped bowed to eventual gold medalist Nagai Rika, 1-4; while Catindig was blanked by Uehare Yuka, 0-4, as both NCAA soft netters bagged a bronze medal each.

The men’s team event proved to tough as the NCAA trio of UPHSD’s Mikoff Manduriao and San Beda’s Arjay Canoza and Caloy Ramiscal finished the round-robin preliminaries with a 1-2 record —picking up a lone win over Kongju National University— and failing to make the knock-out stage.

Korea University Soft Tennis president Dr. Kim Chang Lim and newly appointed Korea Soft Tennis vice president Kim Hun Soo awarded the prizes to the winners.

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