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Pinay cricket team’s December match vs. Indons threatened by air ticket woes

Posted on 17 September 2019 No comments

Without air tickets, all the preparations will be for naught.

The Philippines’ first and only foreign-based women’s cricket team is scheduled to meet the Indonesian national women’s squadron in Dasmarinas City, Cavite in a qualifying match in late December for the Cricket World Cup.

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But the first international game of the SCC Divas has more than worried the team than excited it, as the problem of financing their air tickets could sabotage their trip if they can’t find a kind-hearted sponsor.

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Josie Arimas, founder and captain of the Divas, who were champions in the Cricket Hong Kong Women’s Development League for the past two seasons, said her team was invited by the Philippine Cricket Association to play in the T20 tournament at home.

Arimas said the PCA manager has pledged to shoulder the Divas players’ accommodation and food while they are in Dasmariñas.

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“Na-rattle ako, baka di ko makumpleto ang ticket namin, ang iba meron na,” Arimas said.
To try crowd-funding, she is planning to post on Facebook an appeal for donations in order to be able to collect enough funds for the team’s air fare to Manila.

She said she can’t hazard going to the match with just the players who already have tickets because it’s the strong cricketers in her team who happen to have no tickets.

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“Need ko kasi ang mga strong players. Kung lawlaw wala din, di ba? Kung maiwan ang mga strong batter ay wala kaming ilalaban. Apat lang kasing taga-Manila ang medyo okay maglaro,” Arimas said.

Divas players, who are mainly recruits from the OFW baseball, softball and volleyball teams in Hong Kong, mostly come from the Visayas and Northern Luzon provinces.




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Road HK holds charity spikefest

Posted on 20 July 2019 No comments

Organuzers and winners join in for a souvenir photo after the tournament.

“Those who are the happiest are those who do the most for others.”

Guided by this principle, members of the Radiant Organization of Amiable Drivers Hong Kong ( ROADHK ) held a one-day volleyball league on Jun 30 at Victoria Park to raise money for their charity projects.

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Twelve volleyball teams participated in the games, namely The Partners, Helping Hands A & B, Baguio Team, D’ Seekers, Legend League, D’ Paknerz, SIGAC, I - Fialikia Team, LVM Pilipinas, Isabela Team and Arvielynx.

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Although it was the first time Road HK had organized a volleyball contest, everyone had fun, and the games proceeded smoothly. LVM Pilipinas emerged as champion in the friendly competition, followed by SIGAC as the 1st runner-up, D’ Seekers as 2nd runner-up and Isabela Team as 3rd runner-up. – Maria Theresa Aquino

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Manager aims to make SCC Divas shed DH identity

Posted on 07 July 2019 No comments


	SCC Divas receive their trophy.

By Vir B. Lumicao

SCC Divas may be the only all-Filipino women’s cricket team in the world, says its manager, but it still known in Hong Kong as a group made up of domestic workers.

Manager Animesh Kulkarni says his ultimate goal is to make the team known simply as Filipinas, not as domestic helpers. He also plans to have one of the SCC Divas players drafted into the Hong Kong national team within the next three years.

“We will continue to admit and train Filipinas who want to join the team as our contribution to Hong Kong cricket. But my ultimate goal is make you known not a team of domestic helpers but of Filipinas,” Kulkarni told the team after the awarding.

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SCC Divas was crowned champions for the second-year running in its division in Hong Kong. The team ruled Cricket Hong Kong’s Women’s Development League for the second consecutive year via a clean sweep of the four-team division in the 2018-2019 season that ended in April.

Cricket Hong Kong handed the trophy to the SCC Divas’ founder-captain Josie Arimas and vice-captain Jennifer Alumbro at the Awarding Night in Regal Oriental on Jun 21.
Kulkarni said he wants to attract Hong Kong resident Filipinas to play for Divas.

SCC Divas' manager Kulkarni and assistant manager Prameswaran

“We are now starting,” Kulkarni said when asked about when he is going to tap into the Filipino resident community to boost the team.

Assistant manager Chandrasekhar Parameswaran said the team had become a platform in the past two years for attracting more Filipinas to cricket.

“We’ve got a good pool of 30 to 50 players from the Philippines who are already here and we’ve built a core of it. Now, through your platform, we would like to invite Hong Kong Filipinos …to practice every Sunday… and they could come through the system,” said Parameswaran.

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Kulkarni praised Hong Kong-based SCC Divas as unique in that it is the only Filipina team in the whole world, there being no other team of Filipina cricketers in India, England, Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere.

“SCC Divas is the only team in the world for the associate or regular members (of the International Cricket Council) having an all-Filipina team. Other development we are starting, but we will carry on and we will go global,” said Kulkarni.

Kulkarni told the team after the awarding that he is trying to arrange matches for them against the Philippine women’s cricket team in Manila in December.

His statement ties in with plans for bilateral and trilateral tournaments in December at the Philippine Cricket Association ground in Dasmariñas City, Cavite. The one-day internationals were disclosed by PCA manager Faisal Khan in a message to Arimas.

Khan said some of the Divas players would be drafted into the Philippine national team that will play the Korean, Vietnamese and Singapore national teams in December.

Kulkarni said that SCC Divas played better in the recently ended season than in their maiden season that closed in 2018.

“Very good improvement and we are hoping that next year will be much better than this year,” said Kulkarni.

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Filipinas’ quest for ice hockey glory foiled by Singapore team

Posted on 12 May 2019 No comments

By Vir B. Lumicao

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Pilipinas Islanders with head coach Carl Montano after their semi-final win

The Philippines’ national women ice hockey team, Pilipinas Islanders, was within reach of the championship on May 11 in the Mega Ice Hockey 5’s 2019 tournament in Kowloon Bay, but a team from Singapore, DP Mantis (Evoke) spoiled that dream.

The younger and smaller Filipinas fought gallantly but were simply outclassed by their rivals, who used their speed, height and heft to score a goal, 1-0, in the first period of the final match at the Mega Box ice skating rink.

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But, despite that early DP Mantis advantage, the Islanders put up a tight defense with zealous goalkeeping by Rosalyn Lim to prevent the combination of Singapore and Taiwanese players from scoring again until the final buzzer.

“It was a good experience for them, they did their best,” national team head coach Carl Montano told The SUN after a post-game meeting with his players. He said the Pilipinas Islanders will compete again in the tournament next year.

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Shaun Lee, the Singaporean founder of DP Mantis, praised the Filipinas for playing a great game, noting that there were two very good players on the team.

Lee was referring to Rachel Llanes and Mei Jue, two professionals playing for Shenzhen teams who were called up by Montano to bolster the national team made up mostly of young university students.

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The Filipinas defeated Hong Kong team WIHO Elite 3-2 in their opening match on May 7 to earn a ticket to the next round. Then they crushed Bangkok YGG Ice Hockey Club 4-0 the next day.

On May 10, the Islanders blanked WIHO, 5-0, to gain a berth in the semifinals. WIHO Elite, meanwhile, drew Bangkok YGG, 1-1, then beat sister teams WIHO Junior, 5-3, and WIHO 2-0 to set the stage for its semifinal with WIHO Elite.

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Bianca Cuevas scored the first point against WIHO Elite 9min28 into the first period, drawing a reprisal from Wong Ka-wing at 10min38.

Then Llanes slammed the puck into the goal 10min31 into the second period to take the score to 2-1. But Adrienne May Li scored another goal for WIHO Elite at 6min10 to tie the game at 2-2.

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Llanes scored another goal 3min22 into the 3^rd period and Kathleen Tan added a fourth 2min48 into the fourth period, while WIHO Elite had stopped scoring until the game ended at 4-2.

DP Mantis (Evoke) stormed into the tournament with a 14-0 crushing of WIHO on May 7, then blanked WIHO Jr 10-0 on May 8.