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Artemis ladies squeak past all-Pinay softball team Fate, 12-11

Posted on 26 November 2020 No comments

By Emz Frial

Fate's just too happy to be back on the pitch despite the initial setback
 

Filipino softball team Fate set the pace as they returned to the Shek Kip Mei pitch on Sunday afternoon, Nov 22, against local squadron Artemis, but luck eluded them as they lost 11-12 in their first game after a long lay-off.

The 3pm match followed a 10-month closure of the pitch as one of several safety measures the Hong Kong government had imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

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Fate’s all-Filipina domestic helper team were full of enthusiasm when the Hong Kong Softball Association reopened the field for the 2019-2020 season.

Siera May Tebia, batting for away team Fate, started the game with a fly ball that was caught by local pitcher Mok Yin Yau. Second batter Maribel Sitchon then hit a short infield ball that allowed her to run to the first base.

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Daisy Maano also struck an infielder for a dash to first base as base runner Sitchon ran to the second. Then an error by Artemis’ catcher drove the two base runners to the next base.

Fourth batter Chelo Garbo also sent the ball flying, but she was caught on a pass ball by the Artemis pitcher to the first baseman. Sitchon sprinted to the third base when Josel Ondrade whacked the ball and ran to the first base.

 

At Percy Jayme’s turn, she smashed an outfield ball that took her safely through the first and second bases while base runners Sitchon and Ondrade ran safely to the home base.

Jayme was the third Fater to run home on hits by Jonalyn Cupag and Belinda Ganitano.

Bambee Abadilla hit a long ball for a dash to the second base that sent Cupag running to the home base. Ganitano was stuck on the third as the inning ended with Fate ahead 5-0. 

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The locals took their chances when new Fate player Garbo took the pitching stand in their first inning. They scored four home runs courtesy of Pang Po-mau, Lai Wing-suan, Siu Wing-chi and Mok Yin-yau to end the inning 5-4 for Fate.

In the second inning, Fate gave their opponents no room to score. 

Before Artemis started their inning, Fate captain Don Gaborno called for substitution and reshuffled her players. She took over pitching and caught two locals standing out with her fast ball.

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Still, Artemis managed to add three home runs through Pang, Siu and Mok that put them ahead of the Filipinas, 7-5, at the close of the second inning. 

In the third inning, Fate added five home runs through Garbo, Ondrade, Jayme, Gaborno and Tebia, while they limited Artemis to two courtesy of Ho Ping-ting and Cho Suet. Fate was back in front, 10-9, at the end of the inning. 

Fate took their last chance to nail the match in the fourth, but Jayme scored a run. The locals then scuttled the Filipinas’ tight defense to add three runs via Leung Wing-yau, Yeung Tan and Ho Pai-ting that ended the match 12-11 for Artemis. 

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Divas foil Lantau Ladies in first cricket league match in 9 months

Posted on 16 October 2020 No comments

By Vir B. Lumicao

 

Divas lords over their rivals in their first match after a 9-month break due to the pandemic

All-Filipina cricket team SCC Divas overtook Lantau Ladies, 92/2 in their Hong Kong Women’s Main League Division 2 game on Oct 4 to win their first T20 cricket encounter after a long lay-off due to the pandemic.

Divas captain Josie Arimas expressed relief and joy with the victory, as her team had only limited time to practice before the encounter.

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“Nag-start kami ng training only three Sundays ago with only two hours per session, not enough for training. We need more training talaga,” Arimas said.

(We started training only three Sundays ago with only two hours per session, not enough for training. We really need more training).

Playing under a new coach, Divas’ first batters Jennifer Alumbro and Jonna Eguid scored 63 runs in the second innings as they set the pace for the chase of the 91/7 first innings lead that the Lantau Ladies produced in 19.5 overs.

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Then Christine Joy Lovino and Romela Osabel combined for 29 runs in 10.4 overs to seal the victory for Divas, the first-ever Philippine women’s cricket team formed three years ago by Arimas.

The match was scheduled for two and a half hours but shortened to 75 minutes by the Divas, who returned to the pitch after a forced nine-month halt to the annual league as Hong Kong battled the coronavirus contagion.

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Arimas, who is also captain of the first women’s cricket National Team that lost to Indonesia in an international competition in Dasmariñas City last December, described the match at Po Kong Village Road Sports Centre in Diamond Hill as tense.

“Ang dami naming extras sa first game, medyo tense pero OK lang. Ganyan lang pag first match after nine months na na-stuck kami dahil na-stop ang league,” Arimas said.

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The Divas captain said the team has 29 players and two new trainees. She said the teams need more training following the long furlough.

The team in a huddle with their manager and new coach, Sher Lama 

The triumph was also a first by the all-domestic helper team under their new Nepalese coach, Sher Lama, a former player of the Hong Kong National Men’s Team.

Also at the pitch to share their jubilation were SCC Divas manager Animesh Kulkarni and assistant manager Chandra Prameswaran.

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Aside from the team that defeated the Lantau Ladies, the Filipinas have formed two teams, SCC Divas and SCC Pinay, in the Women’s Development League that opens this Sunday, Arimas said.

She said SCC Pinay will play against Craigengower Cricket Club at 9 am and SCC Divas will face Cavaliers at 2 pm.

The victory was Divas’ first in a five-team round robin in the main league Division 2 T20 tournament. The Filipinas will also play in the T10 tournament where they will face eight teams including the strongest.

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OFW cricketers to power PHL national team in intl tournament

Posted on 05 December 2019 No comments
By Vir B. Lumicao

Divas captain Josie Arimas will lead the Phl national team in its first international competition

Nine players of SCC Divas, the first ever Filipina cricket team outside the Philippines, will leave for Manila on Dec 19 to play for the National Team that will face Indonesia in a four-match T20 international in Cavite on Dec 21-22.

The Divas contingent, comprising Hong Kong-based domestic workers, will form the backbone of the country’s first cricket Women’s National Team that will be playing its maiden international match on Dec 21.
Divas captain Josie Arimas said in an interview on Dec 4 that the rest of the players in the National Team, which number no more than 14, were chosen from relatively young women’s cricket teams in the country.

As of this writing, the Philippine Cricket Association, which invited the Divas players to join the National Team, has not yet announced who will captain the country’s squad.
Other Divas stalwarts on the team are Jennifer Alumbro, Jonna Eguid, Romela Osabel, Cherry Octaviano, Christen Joy Lovino, Catherine Bagaoisan, Ma Luz Madia and Rosaly Pagarigan.

Arimas said these former softball, baseball and volleyball players are strong in both bowling and batting.
They are mostly pioneers of the Divas team that Arimas formed two years ago and captured the crown in their maiden appearance in Cricket Hong Kong’s Development League in the 2018 season.    

 
Formed only 2 years ago, Divas won its first major cricket match in HK, the Development League

Arimas said the Philippine National Team will be facing a big challenge because Indonesia is strong. She said the results of the competition will count in the cricket world rankings for women.

The Philippine and Indonesian teams will play two 20-over, or T20, matches on Dec 21 and another two on Dec 22. All four games will be played on the PCA cricket field in Dasmariñas, about 50 kilometers or 2 hours ride from Nino Aquino International Airport.  



“Underdog kami. Ang Indonesia ay pang-22 sa ICC T20 women’s rankings samantalang kami ay ngayon pa lang sasali,” said Arimas.

There are 55 countries in the roster of the International Cricket Council, cricket’s world governing body, with the Philippine men’s team occupying 20th place in the international T20 league.

Arimas said air tickets of some of the Divas players will be paid by their employers as the competition coincides with their annual vacation. But those who are flying to Manila just for the tournament will pay for their own tickets.

She said the Divas players on the National Team will no longer be able to play in Hong Kong’s Development League, a division for new teams or sides that need to improve their performance before rejoining the big league. 
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CG administers oath to Pinoy taekwondo officers

Posted on 26 September 2019 No comments
Congen Tejada administers oath to UPTO officers led by the 3 founders from left: Permales, Jacino and Padua 

Consul General Raly Tejada inducted into office on Sept. 15 the newly appointed officers of the United Philippine Taekwondo Organization – Hong Kong, a pioneering group dedicated to promoting the sport among Filipinos, particularly migrant workers.

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Taking their oath before Congen Tejada in the conference room of the Consulate were founders Federico C. Jacinto, Ednaly Padua and Mercy D. Permales; head instructor Wilma M. Bolobong, asst head instructor Ruth V. Delos Santos, instructors Ednalyn Padua, Artisa C. Nablo and Margie F. Nava (Tung Chung branch), and Rey N. Aldea, Precy E. Tamot and Federico C. Jacinto (Sheung Wan branch), secretary and treasurer Mary Ann P. Manongdo, and business manager Letecia D. Cayudong
Upto was founded on June 22, 2014 by blackbelts Jacinto, Padua, Permales and Evangeline Sia Gocuay, who has since left Hong Kong for good. Since then, the three remaining founders have worked their way up the ranking ladder, with all three now holders of a 3rd Dan Black Belt, and members of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).
Over the past seven years, the group has produced 24 WTF black belts, and most of them are Upto members. But since the organization has grown slowly, the founders decided to lessen the number of officers and give all active Black Belt members the chance to focus and become future instructors of Upto.

Winning UPTO members display the medals they won in the contest

The ploy appeared to have worked because straight from the oath-taking 11 Upto members won medals in the 17th Hong Kong Nepalese Taekwondo Association Open Kyorugy and Poomsae Championship 2019, held at the Kowloon Park Sports Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.



The winners were part of a 20-strong delegation from Upto that competed in nine different belt categories in the poomsae competition. More than 10 organizations and clubs participated in the event.

The winners from Upto are:

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FD1 category:
Rosemary Alabat
Jask Jan Morales Sabater

MD8:
Alexander C. Valdez

FD9:
Margie F. Nava

Silver:
FD 11:
Ednalyn Serrano

FD1:
March P. Ebunalo
Charita Campos

FD5:
Mylene Lupio Adtoon

MD9:
Rey Aldea

Bronze:

FD8:
Emely De Pedro


FD 9::
Precy E. Taco


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Filipina DH named one of 8 HK women’s rugby envoys

Posted on 25 September 2019 No comments
Brizuela (left, seated) with HK Island team, this year's Battle of Origins winner.
By Vir B. Lumicao

A 32-year-old Filipina domestic worker has been named by the Hong Kong Rugby Union as one of its eight ambassadors to promote women’s rugby in the city.

Mary Flor Brizuela will participate in the effort to push the growth of women’s rugby in Hong Kong as part of World Rugby’s “Women in Rugby” global campaign.

All eight ambassadors were presented on Sept 11 at the launch of the KPMG Premiership, the HKRU domestic women’s league this season.  

Brizuela (2nd from left) with the seven other women rugby ambassadors for HK

Brizuela, a single mother of two boys from Bula, Camarines Sur, who has been working in Hong Kong for seven years, was specifically tapped to encourage the huge community of foreign domestic helpers in the city to participate in the sport.

Even before her nomination this year as a rugby envoy, Brizuela had already been promoting women’s rugby among Filipina helpers in Hong Kong since 2016.

Brizuela said in an interview that she was introduced to rugby in March 2016 after she was asked to become an Enrich “ambassador” to get more fellow domestic workers to sign up for the NGO’s workshops.

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An Enrich trainer introduced rugby to her as a leisure activity and Brizuela tried it out of curiosity.

“At first, I had no idea what kind of sport rugby was. I’d been playing basketball, ping pong, and volleyball, but never in my life did I hear about rugby,” said Brizuela, a graduate of midwifery and caregiver course from Naga City Foundation College.

Her first encounter with the sport inspired her and seven other Filipina helpers to form a team, aptly called “Exiles,” and trained on Sundays at Happy Valley sports ground. From that core group, Exiles has grown into a 36-woman strong team.

The all-Filipino Exiles team
“Exiles intends to reach out and encourage more household service workers to play rugby and join different friendly tournaments,” Brizuela said.

This way, she said, the team can carry through its vision to integrate domestic workers into Hong Kong society and “help build a global community that nurtures friendship, respect and empathy to everybody.”
That is in line with World Rugby’s strategy of fuelling the sport’s growth by developing women’s rugby to “realize a more equitable game for all”, in the words of World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont.

 “We firmly believe that development of women in rugby is the single greatest opportunity for our sport to grow in the next decade,” Sir Bill has said. “Not only is women’s rugby experiencing unprecedented growth around the world but we are well on the way to realizing our vision of a more equitable game for all through the implementation of our ambitious strategic women’s action plan…”

Brizuela and her team exemplify that vision.



As a young team, Exiles made a “big breakthrough” in 2018, Brizuela said. “We had the privilege to join the Hong Kong Corporate Sevens on Dec 9. On Jan 13, we were invited to play in an international all-women beach festival in Discovery Bay.”

After that, HKRU put her through training and coaching courses, as well as a referee course that she finished on May 15 this year. With that, Brizuela became qualified as a U8 coach and Level 1 referee of the local rugby union.

Brizuela’s skills on the pitch did not go unnoticed. In the last summer league at King’s Park, local team Blue Dragons signed her to play touch and tag, two versions of rugby that require less physical contact.

This season, she has switched to the more physical contact rugby to be able to play for Valley Ladies.

Brizuela says playing rugby since 2016 has changed her life.

“For almost four years of experiencing, exploring and trying new things in rugby, this sport has changed my life in a way. It taught me to keep my eyes on my goals, no matter how unreachable they may seem, and that bumps along the way will be met.

“But it’s your choice whether you want to take a step back or go head-to-head and emerge bruised yet victorious,” she declared.

Rugby has taught her that sometimes admitting weaknesses is the bravest thing to do. “With admission, we drop our shield of pretense, find the courage to face reality and reach out for the help we need,” she said.
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