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COMING off a successful stint in the 7th Southeast Asian Basketball
Association junior championship, the Nokia-RP Youth team gets back
to business by resuming its campaign in the 2008 Nike Summer League.
The young Filipinos already played two games in
the country’s biggest cage tournament every summer prior to their
trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the qualifying event of the Asian
Youth Championship in Tehran, Iran this September.
As expected, the team mentored by coach Franz
Pumaren completed a four-game sweep of the meet to emerge champion
and earn the right to represent the Southeast Asian region to the
Asian cagefest together with runnerup Malaysia.
Officials of Nike naturally are elated with the
success of the team it currently sponsors along with the RP
women’s squad.
“Yes, we’re very happy to have the RP Youth
team back this week [in the Nike Summer League] and even happierwith
their success in Malaysia,” said Nike Phils. public relations
manager Mae Dichupa in Tuesday’s PSA Forum at the Shakey’s UN
Avenue branch. She was accompanied by Nike Phils. sports marketing
executive Tony Atayde.
“They have a few more games to play in their
group, so it should be interesting to see how they perform against
the other teams,” added Dichupa, who was accompanied by sports
marketing executive Tony Atayde. in the session sponsored by
Shakey’s, the Philippine Amusements and Gaming Corporation, Accel,
Brickroad gym, Aspen spa and MedCentral Medical Clinics and
Diagnostic Center.
The RP 5 is bracketed in Group D of the league
featuring 77 teams playing in the seniors, juniors and women’s
divisions. It currently carries an even 1-1 card and will have Feati
University for its next game on Thursday.
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