Friday, September 21, 2007

VALLE-MILLARES, ARPILLEDA-PUNZALAN BARGE INTO SEMIS

VALLE-MILLARES, ARPILLEDA-PUNZALAN BARGE INTO SEMIS

THE PAIRS OF FORMER SMB ASIAN 9-ball tour leg winner Gandy Valle-Jay Jay Millares and ex-Southeast Asian Games medalist Victor Arpilleda-Fidel Punzalan took different routes to advance into the semifinals of the of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) Scotch Doubles 10-balls Thursday at the Elbowroom in Metrowalk, Pasig City. Valle and Millares defeated 2007 US Bar Table 9-ball Champion and 8-ball Champion Warren Kiamco and Rodrigo Geronimo, 9-5, in the quarter-final round Thursday afternoon to set up a semi-final clash against the tandem of Negros Billiard Stable bets Roberto Dy and Jech Jech Limen late Friday, who demolished Godofredo Ducanes and Ernesto Sarmiento, 9-1. While the Jakarta based Arpilleda who teaming up with Punzalan clustered three consecutive racks to scored a come from behind 9-8 victory over Leonardo Didal and Eric Rodriguez late Thursday to meet Carlo Biado and Mark Mendoza in another semi-final bout late Friday who toppled Jomar de Ocampo and Jess Dacoro, 9-4. The winner pairs here gets top prize P140,000, the runner-up took P80,000 while the losing semi-finalist pairs will take home P40,000 each in this three-day event sanctioned by the Billiards Snooker Congress of the Philippines (BSCP) with the media partner is Journal Group of Company. The organizing committee headed by tournament director Jojo Santos Arruejo decided to move the semi-final round at exact 6 pm last night(Friday) instead the original schedule of 4 pm to avoid the conflict schedule in the first BSCP Philippine Junior Pool Championship gets underway yesterday at the Rizal Memorial Billiards Center and will ends on Sunday where the Male players 19 years-old and below winner will carry the country's colors in the 2007 World Junior Pool Championship in Willingen, Germany on November.

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by: Marlon Bernardino

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