RP Youth opens bid vs Malaysia
The Nokia RP Youth team starts its quest to reclaim the SEABA junior men’s championship when it plays defending champion and host team
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The team can’t afford to lose since the tourney is a single round-robin competition with the team with the best record automatically declared champion.
The winner and the runner-up will represent the region in the Asian championship.
The RP juniors, unable to compete in the 2006 SEABA youth tourney because of the country’s suspension in the FIBA rolls, play the Thais tomorrow, take on the Indons on Sunday and clash with the Singaporeans Monday.
Coach Franz Pumaren named his final 12 before the managers’ meeting yesterday. Making the team are Fil-foreign players Kyle Nicolas Pascual and Norberto Bryan Torres and homegrown talents Ian Paul Sangalang, Ryan Roose Garcia, Jed Manguera, Jaypee Mendoza, Samuel Joseph Marata, Frank Golla Jr., Mark Joel de Guzman, Joseph Emmanuel Tolentino, Gabriel Banal and Joseph Terso.
Mark Anthony Lopez, Mark Joven Mendoza and Philip Paredes were named alternates.
Pascual, Torres, Sangalang and Golla all stand above 6-foot-5. The team’s plays are likely to revolve around them.
Tao Corp. president Jun Sy, the team’s No. 1 backer, is hopeful the RP juniors’ two-week training in the
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