1-2-3 sweep for Cebu at CVRAA

FIVE grueling days of athletic hostilities at the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVRAA) left a clean 1-2-3 sweep for Cebu City , Cebu Province and Mandaue City to be acknowledged the region's top athletic superpowers. Based on the records furnished to the Post by Department of Education Publicity and Media linkages Committee, Cebu City consistently placed on the top three posts in the games that ran from April 18-23. Cebu City showed unrelenting might to emerge with 742 points while host Bohol slid to fourth place over-all at 256 points in the formerly 4 provincial team athletic meet. The sweep for Cebu City and its top division teams to ascend the first three slots of the victory stand also boxed out team Dumaguete City which has to settle for fifth after earning 198.5 points.

In the elementary levels, Bohol 's gold medals came only from boys athletics and girl's lawn tennis while it took silver medals in girl's athletics, football, boys lawn tennis. Cebu City however routed events and brought home the gold in girl's athletics, football, gymnastics, lawn tennis for boys, sipa, boys swimming, taekwondo and boys volleyball events. In the secondary levels, Bohol earned gold in boys athletics and silver in girl's athletics and boy's basketball.

Meanwhile Cebu City mined gold in girls athletics, boys and girls badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, girls chess, football, boys and girls gymnastics, boys and girls swimming, boys and girls table tennis, boys and girls taekwondo and girl's volleyball.

Cebu province also did well when it capped 362.5 points followed by Mandaue City School Division at 266. It dug gold in baseball, boys chess and elementary volleyball girls while their secondary team reaped the glint from boys lawn tennis, sepak takraw, softball and boys volleyball.

Team Mandaue City took gold in boys and girls badminton, boys gymnastics, boys and girls table tennis in the elementary and archery for boys and girls for the secondary competitions. Thirteen teams participated in the annual CVRAA, which also saw the city divisions of Negros Oriental's Bais, Bayawan, Dumaguete, Talisay and Tanjay. From Cebu , city divisions of Cebu , Danao, Mandaue and Talisay have forced their athletes pitting against each other.

Provincial teams of Cebu , Negros Oriental, Bohol and Siquijor also came in full. Fifth overall in this year's competitions is Dumaguete at 198.5 while newcomer Tagbilaran showed a nice performance at sixth with 145 points. Ranked seventh is Negros Oriental at 138.5, eighth is Talisay at 55 points, followed by Siquijor at ninth with 35.5 and Danao City with 30 points at 10th place. Negros Oriental's City divisions of Bayawan (18), Bais City (17) and Tanjay (13) points occupy the last three spots.

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