CAS DOMINATES IN ARNIS COMPETITION

The Normalite Times|ZE

The College of Arts and Sciences on top among other departments on the Arnis Competition which was held in Samuel McClintock’s hall last September 16, 2015.

The CAS Department received silver award in the Women’s Category of Individual Single Baston, Double Baston and Spada y Daga. They were also able to bring the gold in Men’s Category, Individual Single Baston, Double Baston and Spada y Daga as well as the Women and Men’s Category except for the Women’s Synchronized Spada y Daga. They won in Synchronized Single Baston, Double Baston and Male Synchronized Spada y Daga.

CAS won in the different events for the women category: Pin Weight (Ms. Starlette Jade Pestaño), Fly Weight (Ms. Ara Nova Lauron), Light Weight (Ms. Alyssa Nacario), Welterweight (Ms. Nelsa Encarguez), Middle Weight (Ms. Andrea Bensi) and Heavyweight (Ms. Señora Paraluman) while the CTE Departmen got the Bantamweight (Ms. May Louise Regala) and the Feather Weight (Ms. Cynthia Enero).

In addition, CAS also dominated in the Men’s Category for the Labanan Event: Light Weight (Mr. Raymond Prix Del Rosario), Flyweight (Mr, Juliejahr Barril), Bantamweight (Mr. Andro Rey Piencenaves) and Featherweight (Mr. Gino Raphael Bordalba). Mr. Axel Rod Ybiernas from CTE got the Welterweight while Jezrel Gacatuan won the Pin Weight category.

The College of Teacher’s Education (CTE) representatives, Mary Louise Regala has struck the audience and the judges with her shout while delivering her own techniques, she won in the Individual Single and Double Baston women’s game. The CTE Department also won to the Women’s Synchronized Spada y Daga.

The Medellin representative had a unique way of delivering her own technique on the game, giving slow strokes which followed the beat of the song.

Arnis is one of the Filipino martial arts which was formed by the Filipinos as a way of defending themselves from foreign countries who tried to conquer and capture our freedom.

Nowadays, it was mainly seen in many competitions around the Philippines to commemorate our past; celebrating our independence from the Spaniards and other countries who tried to desire us from our sovereignty.

Meanwhile, the winners of the Arnis Competition will be competing for the upcoming State Colleges and Universities in Athletics Association (SCUAA).

"Uhm, actually we are preparing as early as now, we are already started our training because we know the school is looking forward to have another gold again in National SCUAA. I will not promise na we will bring golds in National SCUAA, but we can promise that we will do our best to get all the gold medal in the Regional SCUAA; Note: The National SCUAA and in behalf to all athlete, not just the arnis group, I would like to say something to the teachers; that we hope that you will consider our absences because we are not just bringing our name alone, we are bringing the name of the school because our main problem is that we are afraid that, mang-gamay among grades due to excuse days. Thank you and God Bless,” said Andro Rey Piencevanes, one of the champions from the CAS Department in an online interview.

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