{"id":161053,"date":"2018-04-22T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161053"},"modified":"2018-04-22T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T04:26:10","slug":"ncr-nails-palaros-last-gold-as-de-guzman-beats-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/22\/ncr-nails-palaros-last-gold-as-de-guzman-beats-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"NCR nails Palaro&#8217;s last gold as de Guzman beats Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161054\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Badminton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161054\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Badminton.jpg\" alt=\"The St. Paul Pasig shuttler recovered from blowing an early Set 3 lead to defeat the Pila native, 21-16, 11-21, 24-22, in the secondary girls\u2019 badminton singles finals at the Vigan City Convention Center. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Badminton.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Badminton-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Badminton-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The St. Paul Pasig shuttler recovered from blowing an early Set 3 lead to defeat the Pila native, 21-16, 11-21, 24-22, in the secondary girls\u2019 badminton singles finals at the Vigan City Convention Center. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VIGAN, Ilocos Sur\u00a0&#8212; Mica de Guzman survived a three-set classic against Chuchi Alvarez to give the National Capital Region (NCR) the final gold medal of the 2018 Palarong Pambansa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Paul Pasig shuttler recovered from blowing an early Set 3 lead to defeat the Pila native, 21-16, 11-21, 24-22, in the secondary girls\u2019 badminton singles finals at the Vigan City Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>De Guzman actually rallied back from 10-15 down in Set 1 to take the match lead only to lose steam down the stretch in Set 2 as Alvarez forced the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>Banking on back-to-back aces early on, de Guzman raced to an 11-3 advantage in the final set. But Alvarez slowly came back and even drew close to stealing the win after taking a 20-19 lead.<\/p>\n<p>De Guzman stayed poised come crunch time and eventually sealed the win on extra points, finishing the game with an ace at just the left corner.<\/p>\n<p>De Guzman&#8217;s win made up for her team&#8217;s loss to the Alvarez-led Calabarzon quartet in the secondary girls team tie finals held at the same venue on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NCR racked up three golds in the secondary division, also ruling the boys singles and the mixed doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Calabarzon also has three badminton golds in the high school level as the team also won in the boys team tie and the boys doubles.<\/p>\n<p>The lone other gold in the secondary division ended up in the hands of Western Visayas, as Mia Maguilimotan and Ellana Tan won the girls doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Western Visayas was actually the big winner in the elementary division, walking away with five golds.<\/p>\n<p>The team won in both the two elementary team ties, both the two singles, and the girls\u2019 doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bernal and Christian Dorega of Central Luzon spoiled Western Visayas&#8217; fun on Saturday when they defeated Brendan and Christopher Anglo in the boy doubles finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal actually struck another gold for Central Luzon as he led the mixed doubles team to victory against the pair from the Davao region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIGAN, Ilocos Sur\u00a0&#8212; Mica de Guzman survived a three-set classic against Chuchi Alvarez to give the National Capital Region (NCR) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[49630,20933,21638,18492],"class_list":["post-161053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2018-palarong-pambansa","tag-badminton","tag-gold-medal","tag-national-capital-region","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161053","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=161053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}