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Fil-Am Golf News
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Baseball All
Stars: State Champion Williamsburg Wariors
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All Stars
Selectees: Williamsburg Summer League
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World Series:
Philippines Junior Girls Softball Champion
Fil-Am Golf News
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 O. K. fellow golfers. Red Wing Lake Golf Course awaits us for this coming
Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 0800 a.m. We will play from the Middle
and Front Men's tee box. I understand we will be starting front and back
tees simultaneously. This means some will start on the 10th tee and some
on the 1st tee box. The Slope value for the Men's Middle Tee Box is
"128" which means it will be moderately difficult. Hit me back
with your foursomes, twosomes, or any information on who will be playing
this Sunday. I have heard from some members but I will need to give the
golf course numbers by Thursday, July 19, 2007 for
confirmation.
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The 2007 PCC Golf
Tournament fundraising benefiting the Philippine Cultural Center
is scheduled for Sunday, September 7, 2007. The Tee Time is 12:00 noon at
Little Creek Amphibious base Eagle Haven. To join call any of the
following: Bellie @ 479-4793, Venus@ 615-1859, Sid @ 717-6405, or the PCC
office @ 490-7600.
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Baseball All Stars
State
Champion Williamsburg Warriors (11-U Cal Ripken Division) are going to
the Regional in Jacksonville, FL.
The Williamsburg Warriors All-Stars started
playing together since they were 9 years old. That year, they won their
district championship. Last year as 10 years old, they not only won their
district championship but also went on to play for the state title in
Staunton, Virginia. Glen Allen All-Stars, rated no.1 team in the state
won the title in 2006, Winchester All-Stars came second and the
Williamsburg Warrior came third.
This year, all three teams won their own
district titles and the state sports officials set the championship stage
in Williamsburg. Game dates were July 12 through the 15th. It was the
best baseball games I have seen in a long time.
Heh! Heh! Heh! It is very hard to be modest
when your grandson's team is very good. From a person outside looking in,
I see these parents and children as the All-Star team to reckon with in
the Regional tournament. Why? They play one game: Baseball. The playing
rules apply to everyone and the team who uses the rules to their
advantage the most will win the tournament.
Go Warriors! CLICK HERE!
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Here is the 2006 10-year-old All Star team
from Williamsburg, VA. They reached the State wide final tournament last
year but came up short against Glen Allen and Manchester All Stars. This
year, the All Star tournament games begin in June and will carry on
through the summer months.
Summer leagues like this one makes
parents and organizers busy, each team managers and coaches become
creative financially to support the needs of their respective teams.
Along are parents and friends of the players who become their fund
raising arms as well as team cheerleaders.
Activities like this are common around
the nation after the end of the school year. There are cookouts before,
during, or after the games to improve camaraderie among players and their
parents. Such events are designed for fun times for everyone in the
summer months. It is one of the best American past times since baseball
became popular in the 1920s. ( TOP)
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Selectees: Baseball All Stars
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The Colorado brothers
(Griffin pitching on the left and Garrick fishing on the right) were
selected to play in the 11 year old and 8 year old Williamsburg All
Stars baseball tournaments this summer. Congratulations!
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Paglaum girls of Bacolod World Series Junior Girls
Softball Champion
Written by: Rina Jimenez David (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Paying a
courtesy call Thursday on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at
Malacanang were the members of the victorious Bacolod team that emerged as
champions in the recent World Series Junior Girls Softball championship
in Kirkland, Washington, United States.
After the girls showed her their victory banner and presented her with an
honorary team jacket, the President handed the girls from Paglaum (a village
on the outskirts of Bacolod) a check for one million pesos, an
incentive for their winning performance.
A newspaper report says the team's 2-0 victory over Puerto Rico in
the title match "gave the Philippines its first World Series
crown since 1992 when a team from Zamboanga was stripped of the
crown it won in Pennsylvania" on allegations of fielding over-aged
and unqualified players. The girls' victory, then, was not just a great honor
for the country, but also a vindication of Filipino honor and
pride.
Beyond that, though, the team's victory is a real
"Cinderella" story, a fascinating tale of how girls from a
small town overcome the odds and showed the world what they're
made of.
THE GIRLS, from 12 to 14 years of age, come from Paglaum, a small village
on the outskirts of Bacolod, and belong to farming families, their
parents working in the sugar cane fields or else engaged in fishing and
rice and coconut farming. Rufino Ignacio, one of the
Filipino-Americans in Washington who played host to the team, says the girls
brought pictures of their nipa huts and the dilapidated premises of the
Paglaum Village National High School.
As Ignacio tells it, the team almost didn't make the trip for lack of money
for their plane fare. Fund raised by their sponsors, including Little
League Philippines and politicians and business people in Negros, were not
enough for their needs. So as a last ditch effort, the team's coach
and the school principal took out a loan for 100,000 pesos,
though perhaps the President's check should now ease their anxieties somewhat.
Upon arrival in the US, the girls and their
coach stayed with a host family, the Shannon’s, all of them
crowded into the Shannon’s' modest home, although once the
tournament began, the USA Little
League housed them in a hotel. But they faced more than logistical
challenges. Ignacio describes the Paglaum
girls as the "smallest" among all the players in the
tournament, who were "heftier and taller and from their looks,
stronger."
Despite their physical disadvantages, however, the young Pinays became the
"darling of the crowd," racking up a "very impressive
record" and
winning everyone's admiration for their "discipline and
decorum."
THE STORY of the Paglaum girls, though, is also the story of how the
entire Filipino-American community in the area came together to lend
their moral, physical and financial support for the plucky
team.
Fil-Ams from as far as Oregon and British Columbia came in droves to cheer
on the Paglaum girls. The Ilonggos Northwest Association, the Filipino
Community of Seattle, and a regional Fil-Am association, the FACSPS,
combined resources to make the girls feel welcome. The FACSPS,
headed by Ignacio, gathered used clothing, shoes,
toiletries, canned goods and other items and packed them in
balikbayan boxes for the girls to take home to their families.
"As the team is not used to eating bread in the hotel, the
Ilonggos and FACSPS prepared food for them, potluck style, and the team
heartily ate with
other Filipinos after each game," recounts Ignacio. "The
girls said they had the best meals in their young lives during the
tournament."
Ignacio notes that the Paglaum girls left the Philippines with "no
money, hardly noticed, and thinking perhaps they had no chance of
winning." But now, they have returned as heroes, or rather,
as young heroines.
Everyone loves an underdog, but victorious underdogs are loved even more.
This is one "Cinderella story" that deserves to be told and
retold.
It’s only when you share your life to others that life begins to have a
meaning and purpose ... the time you touch the life of others is the time
you really live. (TOP)
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