Figueroa youngest archery champ

Youthful Adelinda Figueroa scored a stunning upset by beating multi-titled Joann Tabanag to emerge as the youngest women’s archery champion in the national championships at the UP-PSC range in Diliman, Quezon City.

The 19-year-old Figueroa, a member of the Tamaraw Archery Club in Tondo who claimed the US Open intermediate crown in 1998, whipped Tabanag, the 1985 and 1995 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist, 97 to 87, in the Olympic Round finals.

Sydney Olympian Jennifer Chan finished third.

Other winners in the different women’s categories were Jennifer Chan, adult; Rachelle Anne Cabral, FITA; Ma. Sherlyn Palattao, overall, high school and college; Hazel Rosales, standard round, high school; Pallatao, standard round, college; and Patty Barriga, cadet.

Gen. Jose Marlowe Pedregoza dominated the Master level event in the compound division, ruling the 90-, 70- and 50-meter distances with scores of 271, 299 and 285 points, respectively.

Nestor de Castro tallied 329 to nose out Pedregoza, who carded 326, in the 30-meter distance.

De Castro also finished second to Pedregoza in the 90-, 70- and 50-meter distances with 229, 280 and 278, respectively.

Commissioner Cynthia Carrion presented medals to the women’s and girls’ winners and gave an inspirational talk.