Halcons cements back-to-back victory

Strongly considered, Ditaunon, Lopez top chess tourney, secures spot to the nat’ls

In a nail-biting display of chess strategic brilliance, DWCC Halcons’ John Mark Ditaunon and John Eduard Lopez emerged as the champions, Boards 2 and 4, in the PRISAA MIMAROPA 2023 Chess Tournament granting them a ticket to represent Region IV-B in the upcoming National PRISAA in Zamboanga City.

Ditaunon and Lopez demonstrated remarkable skills, outmaneuvering their opponents with calculated moves and precise execution under a Round Robin matching system.

Their victorious journey was not so easy because their opponents also demonstrated their mastery of the game and poised their unwavering moves and dedication just to clinch the top spot of the game.

However, the opponents from other schools fell short and were overtaken by the finest chess minds and unrivaled techniques adopted by the DWCC chess masters.

DWCC also bagged 1 bronze medal in the name of Perf Rajo Fesalvo in Board 1; while Den Javriil Quezon and Jamil Macaguiwa settled both in 4th place in Board 3 and 4 respectively.

DWCC Halcons proved supreme in all their matches after successfully defending CCAA Call of Duty: Mobile reign this Season 17, December 2, via Tito Vlog’s Page courtesy of Calapan CYSDD.

Halcons easily grabbed their opportunity to have an appearance once again on the medal podium as they trounced the team from Luna Goco Colleges Team 2 (7-1), Mindoro State University Team 1 (7-2), and the City College of Calapan (CCC) Team 1 (7-2) in the elimination round. Their victory against the mentioned teams makes a clean way for them to directly proceed in the finals.

The final was a fated rematch against the Halcons and the CCC1 similar to the scene in the elimination round. Halcons once upset this team in the elimination round which resulted in the CCC1 falling into the lower bracket.

With poise and glamour, DWCC reigns as Mutya ng PRISAA ‘23

Angelica Evora gave pride to Divine Word College of Calapan (DWCC) as she brought home the crown of the Mutya ng PRISAA 2023 after besting the other three mesmerizing aspirants at DWCC’s Gymnasium, May 10.

Giving the audience a glimpse of the pageantry, the candidates from John Paul College (JPC), Paradigm College of Science and Technology, Inc. (PCST), Divine Word College of San Jose (DWCSJ), and DWCC showed off their sportswear at the opening ceremony

With consistent play in the whole tournament, Francis Lambert “Ultear” Malabanan was declared the Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).

In their first game in the finals, Sophia “Ayip” Deogracias and Malabanan were both on target and tallied 15 kills each that helped the team to climb from the 3-point advantage of the CCC1 in the early minutes of the match, 7-6.

Halcons still on their momentum as they continued to mark victory in Games 2 and 3 with the powerful moves of their team captain, Rovic “Chill” Tuplano that contributed a total of 12 kills and 11 kills in the second and third games respectively which pushed him to be the MVP of both games.

In the 3rd game of the Best-of-5 championship, Geoff Darnell “Geo” Sison added 10 kills with the help of Ultear (8 kills), Ayip (6 kills), and Lorenz Joshua “Purge” Legaspi (6 kills) led the team to victoriously defended their of the PRISAA MIMAROPA Regional Games 2023, a day before the pageant night. throne in the CODM. CCC1 put all their powers and skills into the last match, however, DWCC did not give them a chance to seal one of the games in the championship match. The team ended their CCAA ’17 COD-Mobile journey in 2nd place.

DWCC’s Evora took on a golfing attire dominated by pristine white colors. This was the start for all participants to fight for the crown on the coming pageant night with two more portions namely the long gown competition and the question-and-answer portion.

Evora dominated the pageantry as she walked confidently with her gleaming and shimmering long gown on the stage and bagged the award of Best in Long Gown.

In the last stage of the competition, the questionand-answer portion, Evora tackled the question about the government’s lack of support for our athletes.

“I think this is a great message to the government to see the talents and skills of our student-athletes because I know that we have so much to give. We have so much talent to showcase in the Philippines and to the world.”, answered Evora, inching closer to reaching the crown.

On the other hand, DWCC Halcons came in second place as MinSU Knights successfully defended their pride as champions in the Mobile Legends tournament of the same event.

In the first game of four, Halcons flipped the game within mid-to-late game performance and finished with Taro (Keart Ryzal Zara) as MVP playing Ling with 6 kills, 4 deaths, and 1 assist. DWCC Halcons had the strategy of rotation among their players throughout the whole series of games which made them claim their victory as 1st runner-ups in this season’s CCAA ML Tournament.

After the deliberation of the judges, Evora rose stellar and prevailed as the Mutya ng PRISAA 2023 followed by JPC’s Alleah Gado, beaded with Swarovski crystals, bagging the 1st runner-up title and Best in Sportswear.

Meanwhile, PCST’s Jasmine Kate Bioncio was crowned as 2nd runner up and DWCSJ’s Zoleil Mellane as 3rd runner-up.