Sotto, Clarkson warm up heels in first practice with Gilas pool

By Josef Ramos

JORDAN CLARKSON and Kai Sotto started blending into Chot Reyes’s system on their first day of practice with the Gilas Pilipinas pool by joining noncontact 5-on-5 drills at the PhilSports Arena on Wednesday night.

They were expected to shift to more strenuous sessions on Friday—exactly two weeks before the Filipinos’ opening game International Basketball Federation World Cup. A gainst the Dominican Republic on August 25 at The Philippine Arena in Bulacan.

“ It’s non-contact 5-on-5 drills, shootaround first last Wednesday night and we’re happy to see all of them,” Jong Uichico, one of Reyes’s deputy coaches, told BusinessMirror Friday. “It’s more than adjustments, but so far we are introducing and integrating Kai [Sotto] and Jordan [Clarkson] to the system.”

The Utah Jazz star Clarkson flew in on Tuesday morning while Sotto has been in the country since two weeks ago but needed to show his MRI tests before joining training camp.

Uichico was thrifty with his thoughts about Gilas’s preparations athough he stressed that the team progressed from their training camp in Lithuania and China. Uichico also couldn’t confirm if Sotto will have a coveted slot in Gilas’s final 12.

What’s important is he’s already attending practice,” said Uichico, adding that the coaching staff expects Clarkson to be in game shape with just two to three days of practice.

Being an NBA [National Basketball Association] player, we know he’s in pretty good shape and we will see in the next few days,” he said.

Gilas plays Angola on August 27 and Italy two days later both at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Group A. All games are set 8 p.m.

ROS needs to tame towering Taiwanese-Am in Jones Cup

RAIN or Shine aims for a winning start to its grueling Jones Cup schedule when it tangles against the host Chinese Taipei Team A which will be bannered by 6-foot-11 American-Taiwanese William Artino on Saturday.

The game is set at 7:30 p.m. with the Elasto Painters hoping to pull the rug from under the Taiwanese national team which is expected to get a lot of boost from its home crowd.

More than that, the E-Painters are looking for a victory which could set the tone for their campaign especially that they are set to play six straight games in as many days.

First, the E-Painters must neutralize Artino and veterans Liu Cheng and Ying-Chun Chen if they are to hurdle their first assignment.

R ain or Shine, headed by Alternate Governor Edison Oribiana and Redmond Yu, immediately went to work at the Taipei Heping Gymnasium upon arriving in Taipei on Friday.

It’s always good to start it with a win especially against the home team. We know the odds are stacked against us but we just have to believe that we can win. If we have a good start we usually have a good ending,” said ROS deputy Caloy Garcia who facilitated the team’s first practice.

E xpected to lead the way for ROS are imports Ange Kouame and Nick Evans, although the team will also be relying on the young core of Rey Nambatac, Shaun Ildefonso, Anton Asistio, Santi Santillan and Andrei Caracut.

Shoemaker foils Malixi in US Women’s Am

RIANNE MALIXI’S hunt for a US Golf Association (USGA) trophy ended in a Round of 32 loss to Bailey Shoemaker, who foiled the Filipina’s late fightback with a birdie on the 19th hole in the US Women’s Amateur Championship at the Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles Thursday.

It was a sorry setback for the recent US Girls’ Junior runner-up, who battled back from two holes down with two to play with a par on No. 17 and a clutch 18-foot birdie on the last to force the only extension in the second round of head-to-head clashes.

But back on the par-five No. 1 which Shoemaker earlier eagled to take command, the American holed out with a birdie to clinch the match as the 23rd seeded Malixi’s third shot went past the hole, leading to a bogey.

S hoemaker, who finished No. 55 after the 36-hole stroke play elims then stunned No. 10 Malia Nam from Hawaii at the start of the match play Wednesday, went 2-up as Malixi bogeyed No. 4 and restored the lead with a par on No. 8 after the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI)-backed shotmaker closed the gap with a birdie on the sixth. mandarin quality inspector will be a strategist and a leader able to steer the company to the most profitable direction while also implementing its vision, mission and long term goals.

Still, the Filipinas made a lot of heads turn following their stint that they topped the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) list of achievers for July.

C oming in a close second to the Filipinas was Ernest John “EJ” Obiena, who cleared 5.82 meters in the Diamond League-Bauhaus Galan in Sweden on July 3 to secure a berth to Paris.

A bout two weeks later, Obiena would bring his act to Thailand for the Asian championships, a meet he dominated by posting a new continental mark of 5.91 meters. For Obiena, the Asian event was just a warmup.

Obiena, 27, would stamp his class anew a week later, placing second in the Monaco leg of the Diamond League in Monte Carlo.

He did 5.82 meters again, behind first-place Christopher Nilsen of the United States, who won the gold with a 5.92. Interestingly, world champion and record-holder Armand Duplantis was off as he finished fourth overall.

I n other parts of the world, Filipino athletes did as well.

The Filipino duo of Johann Chua and James Aranas defeated Joshua Filler and Moritz Neuhausen of Germany, 11-7, to win the World Cup of Pool 9-Ball Championship. The victory was a record fourth time for the country to rule one of the prestigious events in billiards.

A lso in Bangkok, the Philippine bowling team won two gold medals in the 21st Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships through Art Barrientos in the boys’ masters and the boys’ team of four composed of Barrientos, Zach Sales Ramin, Stephen Luke Diwa and Marc Dylan Custodio.

The Filipinos finished as overall champions in the boys division.

Team Manila wouldn’t be left behind as it regained the Pony International World Series crown by completing an eight-game sweep of the 18-Under girls’ tournament at the McAllen Softball Complex in Texas.

Malixi, a 5&3 winner over Ellie Koo in the first round, actually fell by as many as three holes after a bogey on No. 12 but a birdie on the par-three 13th put her back into the match. After trading pars in the next three holes, she pounced on Shoemaker’s mishap on the penultimate hole and rolled in a pressure-packed putt on the 18th that swerved to left at the finish and dropped to force an all-square match.

M eanwhile, top seed Briana Chacon also got the boot from fellow American No. 32 Catie Craig, who led all the way en route to a 4&2 romp, while No. 29 Yana Wilson hacked out a 2-up win over No. 4 Katie Cranston from Canada.

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