South Cotabato’s Eduardo Buenavista settled for a bronze medal in the men’s marathon event of the recent 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia.
Yahuza of Indonesia captured the gold medal.
Compostela Valley’s Jho-An Banayag could only finish fourth in the women’s division won by Triyaningsih of Indonesia.
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The 4th Mindanao Open 9-Ball Challenge Open is on Nov.26 to 27 at B3 NCCC Mall.
Top prize is 75,000, P30,000 to the second placer while P10,000 will be awarded to the semifinalists and P2,500, each for the quarterfinalists.
Tournament co-chairman Charles Raymond A. Maxey said players to watch are Christopher Alanunay, Val Pajuay, Asian Games gold medalist Gandy “Yang Yang” Valle, Gabriel Aton, Elvis Calasang and Demosthenes Pulpul.
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The 22nd Durian Tee Invitational Golf Tournament tees off on Nov.24 and ends on the 27th at the Apo Golf and Country Club.
The four-day tournament co-presented by Phoenix Petroleum has attracted close to 300 golfers, according to tournament co-chairman Billy Parilla.
Hole-in-one prizes are a P1-million cash, a car, golf cart and a motorcycle.
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A Real Madrid FC coach will be in Davao City on Nov.24 to 26 to train four Davao coaches who will handle the football event of the Social and Sports Academy in Sta.Cruz, Davao del Sur.
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RunClub Davao announced that the NBI Run: Run for your Life is on Nov.26 while five other runs are scheduled on Nov.27 namely, Run for IT, Ethnic Run, PDEA Run, SMILE Run and UM Run 2011.
For more details, call (082)2228786.
