UP stude tops sportswriting competition

MANILA, Philippines - A student from the University of the Philippines-Diliman was unanimously chosen by a three-man panel as winner of the 2010 Phoenix Fuel-PBA Press Corps sportswriting contest held at the Araneta Coliseum.

Josiah Israel Albelda topped a list of 45 college students who covered Game 3 of the KFC-PBA Philippine Cup semifinal series between the Alaska Aces and the Ginebra Kings.

Serving as judges were Willie Caballes, former PBAPC president and current assistant sports editor of the Manila Bulletin, Gerry Carpio, assistant sports editor of The Philippine STAR, and Rickie Santos, former Manila Bulletin sports columnist and currently PBA operations and technical committee chief.

The contest was supported by the PBA Commissioner’s Office, Solar Sports, and the Araneta Center.

Second was Camille Eugenia Naredo of Ateneo de Manila and third was Christian Jerome Lagunzad of Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

The first placer will received P10,000, according to sports writing committee co-chairmen Joel Orellana and Dennis Principe.

The second placer will get P6,000, and the third placer P4,000. All awardees will also receive Phoenix-PBAPC Certificate of Accomplishment during the awards rites set at halftime of Game 4 of the Alaska-Purefoods finals tomorrow, with PBA Commissioner Sonny Barrios and Dennis Uy, Phoenix Petroleum president, in attendance.

“It is an honor to be part of this project,” said Uy, “and we wish to congratulate the winners.”