THE last time they were together, Shooster Olago was sprawled on the floor, writhing in pain, with June Manzo a foot near him, his hand raised to acknowledge the foul that would eventually send him out of Game 5 and start a storm in social media—and off it.
At one point, team officials of the newly-crowned Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. champion University of San Carlos were mulling a legal case against the guard for what he did on court. (READ MORE)
WITH a 46-40 lead at the end of the third, the University of the Visayas Lancers seemed headed to an 11th title but Shooster Olago took matters into his own hands and brought the University of San Carlos Warrios back into the fight.
After a Kiefer Lim floater made it 46-42, Olago scored 10 straight points—including a steal and a dunk–to put the Warriors up by 6, 52-46. Just like that, the Warriors, considered chokers last year, was ahead for good, and not one of them was unraveling with a six-point lead with 6:34 left to play. (READ MORE)
OLAGO suffered difficulties in breathing, vomiting and had severe pain in the stomach and was quickly brought to the hospital a while after giving post-game interviews.
According to sports doctor Dr. Rhoel Dejano, the head of Cesafi medical team, Olago was brought to Chong Hua Hospital by the Sambag 2 Emergency and Rescue ambulance after the Cameroonian center and the Cesafi MVP started to vomit and complained of severe pain on his stomach at the team dugout. (READ MORE)
AS SOME observers predicted before the season started, the University of San Carlos (USC) Warriors finally broke a 57-year drought after winning the 2015 Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) college basketball title over the University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers.
Basketball observers based their prediction after the screening committee released the final list of qualified players for the season and 2014 champion Southwestern University was reduced to nine men, while the University of the Visayas lost two key players. (READ MORE)
THE University of San Carlos Warriors and the University of the Visayas Green Lancers face each other in Game 5 to decide who will be the champion of the 2015 Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) basketball tournament at 6 p.m. at the Cebu Coliseum.
All the pre-season preparations and the hard work during the season will boil down in this final match, which will either break a 57-year title drought of the Warriors or give an unprecedented 11th Cesafi title to the Green Lancers. (READ MORE)
FOR the fifth straight year, the Cesafi basketball finals is going to a Game 5. The University of San Carlos Warriors, last year’s losing finalist, is also involved in a second straight Game 5, while the University of the Visayas Green Lancers will be in their third Game 5 in four years.
UV lost to Southwestern Universtiy in 2012, 73-72, and got even a year later and won Game 5, 64-62. Last year, a jittery Warriors team lost Game 5, 64-49, to the SWU Cobras, which finished fourth this year. (READ MORE)
STEVE Cedrick Akomo stayed out of foul trouble and the University of the Visayas Green Lancers played solid defense on Shooter Olago and Ian Tagapan to win Game 4, 60-52, yesterday at the Cebu Coliseum and send the 2015 Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) series to a Game 5 on Tuesday.
“We really wanted to win this game and send the series to Game 5. And they (players) wanted this win also. They played as a team and more importantly, we limited Olago and Tagapan. We gave more focus on them because they’re the very players who gave us headaches for the past three games,” UV Coach Gary Cortes told Sun.Star Cebu. (READ MORE)
I WENT to Game 1 of the Cesafi basketball finals between the University of the Visayas and the University of San Carlos expecting to have some difficulties going into the Cebu Coliseum.
The last time USC met UV in the finals a few years ago, there was a sizeable crowd and getting into the media row at the Cebu Coliseum was difficult. It wasn’t the case last Sunday in Game 1 as the Coliseum wasn’t packed. (READ MORE)
THE door is open and all the University of San Carlos (USC) Warriors have to do is to go all-out and claim a long overdue Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) basketball title. However, the University of the Visayas Green Lancers will try to do their best to stop USC from closing the best-of-5 championship series today at 4 p.m. at the Cebu Coliseum.
In the early days of the Cesafi’s predecessor – the defunct Cebu Amateur Athletic Association (CAAA), USC, earlier known as the Green and Gold Warriors, reigned supreme for two seasons in 1956 and 1958 under the tutelage of the late Juan “Dodong” Aquino. (READ MORE)
