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UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas celebrates a double after
its junior squad snatched the overall Season 69 championship against
University of the East in what could be the tightest race for the
biggest trophy in the high-school ranks of the University Athletic
Association of the Philippines.
Only two points separate UST and
UE, which won three titles each in the season about to end.
UST garnered 105 points built
around its title conquests in athletics, table tennis and taekwondo,
while UE garnered 103 points built around triumphs in chess and boys
and girls volleyball.
UST finished second to UE in the
volleyball events, was third in chess and boys and girls swimming
and had its worse finish in boys’ basketball at fifth.
UE, on the other hand, was second
in three events—boys and girls swimming and table tennis—and was
third in taekwondo. It lost out in the overall championship race
because of its fourth-place finish in athletics and its sixth-place
performance boys’ basketball.
UST ran away with the general
championship in the seniors division with 331 points. A far second
was UP with 254, followed by FEU with 218 points. Rounding out the
Season 69 finish in the seniors’ side were Ateneo fourth with 209
points, UE fifth with 177 points, Adamson sixth with 95 points and
NU seventh with 48 points.
Ateneo clinched third place for
the season with 80 points. Ateneo won the boys’ basketball and
swimming crowns and had runnber-up finishes in athletics and tae
kwon do.
University of the Philippines
highlighted its season by capturing the girls’ swimming tiara and
wound up fourth overall with 77 points. Adamson could finish no
better than second in chess and settled for fifth overall with 32
points.
Like Adamson, Far Eastern
University competed in only four of the nine events and was sixth
for the season with 28 points, followed by National University,
which only took part in three events for 12 points.
Just like in the seniors’
category, the UAAP awards 15 points for the champion team, 12 points
for second place, 10 for third, eighth for fourth, six for fifth,
four for sixth and two for seventh.
The UAAP Annual Awards will on
March 25 at the UE Theater in Manila.
End it….end it.
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