{"id":114285,"date":"2017-08-26T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114285"},"modified":"2017-08-26T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T03:14:23","slug":"ph-captures-mens-basketball-crown-powers-3-gold-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/26\/ph-captures-mens-basketball-crown-powers-3-gold-output\/","title":{"rendered":"PH captures men\u2019s basketball crown, powers 3-gold output"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111703\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sukan-Sea-29-KL2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111703\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sukan-Sea-29-KL2017.png\" alt=\"Watanabe topped the women\u2019s judo-above 57kg up to 63 kg while judokas Dustin, Enrico and Reyes dominated the men\u2019s Poomsae Team event in taekwondo (PNA Photo)\" width=\"595\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sukan-Sea-29-KL2017.png 595w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sukan-Sea-29-KL2017-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sukan-Sea-29-KL2017-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watanabe topped the women\u2019s judo-above 57kg up to 63 kg while judokas Dustin, Enrico and Reyes dominated the men\u2019s Poomsae Team event in taekwondo (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR<\/strong>\u2014 The Philippines on Saturday night captured the men\u2019s basketball crown, demolishing Indonesia with a 94-55 final score in the ongoing 29th Southeast Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>As of 9:25 p.m. Saturday, Philippines tallied 18-25-47 (gold-silver-bronze) output.<\/p>\n<p>Judoka Kiyomi Watanabe and the taekwondo jins troika &#8211; Dustin Jacob Mella, Raphael Enrico Mel and\u00a0 Rodolfo Reyes, Jr. &#8212; started Philippines\u2019 gold medal count when they ruled their respective events with finesse.<\/p>\n<p>Watanabe topped the women\u2019s judo-above 57kg up to 63 kg while judokas Dustin, Enrico and Reyes dominated the men\u2019s Poomsae Team event in taekwondo.<\/p>\n<p>Lawn bowls double specialist Marcelino Pancho and Angelo Morales kept their top form but just enough for second place that towed the initial four silver production of Team Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The other silver medalists are Ana Patrimonio in the tennis singles match, swimmer James Deiparine in the 50m breaststroke and in the men\u2019s team equestrian (dressage\/jumping \u2013 show jumping).<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines needs to increase its gold production to improve its sixth place finish in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Among the day\u2019s bronze medalists are\u00a0 Jazmine Alkhaldi in swimming (200m freestyle) judokas Shugen Nakano (above 66kg up to 73kg) and Keisei Nakano ( above 66kg up to 73kg) in judo, Asuncion Bruce and Annie Knight (lawn bowl-pairs),Ruben Gonzales Jr\/Denise Dy (tennis-mixed- doubles).<\/p>\n<p>Also contributing\u00a0 a bronze for the Philippines are Patrick Daniel in cycling (BMX), Clinton Kingsley in athletics (110m hurdles), Jocelyn Ninobla and\u00a0 Faye Juvenile and Rinna Babanto in taekwondo (women\u2019s poomsae-team),Rodolfo Reyes, Jr also in taekwondo (poomsae-individual) and\u00a0 Mark Griffin in wakeboard event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u2014 The Philippines on Saturday night captured the men\u2019s basketball crown, demolishing Indonesia with a 94-55 final score in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[20599,2889,22041],"class_list":["post-114285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-29th-southeast-asian-games-seag","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-mens-basketball","mauthors-primo-agatep","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}