MANILA, Philippines - La Salle expectedly flexed its might by winning six of the seven divisions for a near-sweep in the ICTSI-JGFP National Inter-school championships national grand finals at the Player course of the Orchard Golf and Country Club in Dasmariñas, Cavite.
La Salle teams scored one blowout win after another, missing just the Midgets 1 crown which it yielded to Learning Links for another impressive showing in the culmination of a six-month series that featured almost a thousand juniors from Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao.
La Salle Greenhills capped the mighty green show by placing 1-2 in the juniors class where Miggy Yee, AR Ramos, Luigi Guerrero and Dennis Ojeda picked up the crown.
La Salle Taft topped the Seniors division 22 points, La Salle Zobel was unchallenged in Girls 1, La Salle Zobel captured both Girls 1 (40 points) and 2 (109) also in runaway fashion and La Salle Greenhills also prevailed in Midgets 2 by 33 for the other La Salle wins.
The International Container Terminal Services, Inc. was the major sponsor of the competition. The other sponsors were Philippine Golf Foundation, PanCake House Group of Companies, Terrayaki Boy, Sizzlin Pepper, K Servico, EMCOR, Inquirer Golf, The Orchard Golf and Country Club, Golf Depot and Pacsports.
Eric Gallardo, Gino Bunyi and Allan Bumagat aggregated 296 for the seniors title.
Jolo Magcalayo, Miguel Ilas, Victor Advincula and Gabriel Bolivar posted 175 for the Midgets 2 plum; Bernice Ilas, Sofia Chabon, Nicole Abelar and Jona Magalayo claimed the Girls 3 diadem with a 209; Pauline del Rosario and Mikhaela Fortuna took the Girls 2 crown with a 208 and Sunshine Baraquiel, Keena Puzon and Michelle Chua won the Girls 1 trophy with a 133.
The 290 of the Learning Links trio of Luis Castro, Wiggham Tapdasan and Carlo Villaroman was good for a 40-point win in Midgets 1.
Winning the individual titles were Baraquiel, del Rosario, Bernice Ilas, Tapdasan, Jolo Magcalayo, Wei-Wei Gao of the Center for International Education (Cebu) in juniors play and Gallardo.