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This, as the 45-year-old Arsenal did it again, pulling off a double whammy feat in the 13th International Open Friendship Taekwondo Championships, over the weekend, at the Eastern Michigan University in the USA.
The Davao Chess Eagles will debut against Tacloban, while the Surigao Fianchetto Checkmates will tangle with the Cagayan de Oro Higalas.
“Cagayan de Oro needed just the arrival of a little kid from Butuan we fondly called with his nickname ‘Mai-mai’ to end Northern Mindanao’s nearly seven-decade misery in Palaro basketball,” then said Calingin’s bench assistant Carlomagno Dagalea.
“Grabe ka kusog sa field naka eleventh-place lang si GM Mark Paragua. Sa mga nag-participate nga titled players, mora’g qualifying para sa gawas nga competition ang Asenso Pinoy tournament,” Mindanao’s top chess-playing executive, Honorary National Master Rey Urbiztondo told Gold Star Daily.
