CKS College News

The Chiang Kai Shek College Blazing Dragons emerged “High-5 Champions” in the 7th Baden Powell Cup Basketball Tournament after sweeping the first two games of their best-of-3 finals with St. Stephen’s High School last February 17, 2010. Capturing its fifth straight championship title, the Blazing Dragons has emerged as the most dominant team in the seven-year old tournament organized by the Filipino-Chinese Scout Club and supported by Hammerhead Jeans and Shirts, and the Rotary Club of Bagumbayan, Manila.

With a close 62-56 win by the Blazing Dragons over the Stephenians in the first game of the championship last February 13, the anticipation for an even more exciting second game brought a larger throng of avid supporters and spectators from both protagonists to the SSHS Basketball Gymnasium that day. Simply said, the venue was filled to the maximum that the SSHS guards had to restrict many other supporters from both teams in entering the gymnasium.

The Stephenians started the game showing mastery of their home court, while the Blazing Dragons seemed lost and rattled. The tide quickly shifted in favor of the Blazing Dragons at the start of the third salvo, with Xergg Eadwinn Ang shooting back-to-back triples, aside from four points coming from both Chuahay and Chester Bryan Ngo. The lead ballooned to as much as 18 points in the last quarter, as team captain Jan Christopher Ong led the team with three triples. The Stephenians, with their perservering attitude, held its own rally, but it proved futile in reversing the outcome of the game, as the CKSC Blazing Dragons romped award with its fifth consecutive title in the tournament at the end of the buzzer, 56-45.

Team sponsors like Eng Bee Tin, New Maxima Tire Supply, Steelhaus General Merchandising, and New Empire Printing sent representatives to join the post-game festivities.

John Kenneth Padilla of CKSC won the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament plum, while Jan Christopher Ong (CKSC), Brian Ng (SSHS), Darren Royce Tiu (CKSC), Jibbrail Mauricio (PCC-Annex), and Chase Lorenz Chianpian (PCC-Manila) made it to the Mythical Five Selection.

Sportsmanship citations were presented to the other participating teams, namely Quezon City Christian Academy, Hope Christian High School, Philadelphia High School, and Philippine Pasay Chung Hua Academy. Also given merit awards were the best players from these teams, namely Don Alvin Klinton Tan (QCCA), Michael John Carag (HCHS), Vernon Santos (PHS), and Aaron Terrel Sy (PPCHA).

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