{"id":114740,"date":"2017-08-29T04:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114740"},"modified":"2017-08-29T04:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:48:50","slug":"ph-pockets-two-golds-in-9-ball-pool-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/29\/ph-pockets-two-golds-in-9-ball-pool-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"PH pockets two golds in 9-ball pool singles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114755\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/800px-Nine-ball_rack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/800px-Nine-ball_rack.jpg\" alt=\"World Cup medalists Carlo Biado and Chezka Centeno dominated their respective events in billiards to power the Philippines\u2019 four-gold harvest Sunday in the 29th Southeast Asian Games here. (Photo By: SMcCandlish ,GFDL) \" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/800px-Nine-ball_rack.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/800px-Nine-ball_rack-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/800px-Nine-ball_rack-768x602.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Cup medalists Carlo Biado and Chezka Centeno dominated their respective events in billiards to power the Philippines\u2019 four-gold harvest Sunday in the 29th Southeast Asian Games here. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=3579002\">Photo By: SMcCandlish ,GFDL<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212;\u00a0World Cup medalists Carlo Biado and Chezka Centeno dominated their respective events in billiards to power the Philippines\u2019 four-gold harvest Sunday in the 29th Southeast Asian Games here.<\/p>\n<p>Biado kept his winning fashion and proved himself superior by topping the men\u2019s 9-ball pool singles event with a 9-5 blowout against Duong Quoc Hoang of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMasaya ako na nakapagbigay na naman ako ng panalo para sa ating bansa,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Biado, whose tenacity and solid shots gave him an early 4-0 advantage in the race to nine title match.<\/p>\n<p>Biado\u2019s teammate Johann Chua settled for the bronze.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Centeno started the gold harvest of the day, beating fellow Filipino tormentor Rubilen Amit, 7-6 to retain the women\u2019s 9-ball pool single crown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to win the match, I was shocked when she (Amit) scored a shot but scratched the mother ball in the side pocket,&#8221; said Centeno.<\/p>\n<p>Amit, admitting she was on course for the win with four balls remaining until the \u201cfatal error,\u201d settled for the silver.<\/p>\n<p>Centeno also beat Amit in the 2015 edition of the regional biennial meet held in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The other two golds came from Samuel Morrison who ruled the men\u2019s under 74kg Kyurogi event in taekwondo and judoka Mariya Takahashi who topped the women\u2019s above 63kg up to 70kg in judo.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing in the last few days for Team Philippines were Michael Christian who took the silver in figure skating (individual) and Arven Alcantara in men\u2019s under 68kg taekwondo.<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:30 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 27), the Philippines tallied 22-28-55 (gold-silver-bronze).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0World Cup medalists Carlo Biado and Chezka Centeno dominated their respective events in billiards to power the Philippines\u2019 four-gold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,44],"tags":[22267,22268,22269,22270,22271,1911],"class_list":["post-114740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-sports","tag-carlo-biado","tag-chezka-centeno","tag-duong-quoc-hoang","tag-johann-chua","tag-rubilen-amit","tag-vietnam","mauthors-primo-agatep","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114740","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=114740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}