The Philippines’ best high school cagers gather for the
inaugural Seaoil High School All-Star Game
by rick olivares
Thursday, March 1, 2012.
National Sports Grill, Greenbelt 3
Makati City
After nearly six months of basketball. Three separate days
of tryouts, the final 30 players from a pool of over 100 basketball players
from all over the country, were chosen to participate in the inaugural Seaoil
High School All-Star Game.
Patterned after the McDonald’s All-American Game, this
historic event aims to showcase high school kids from all over the Philippines
to big college programs.
While the bulk might seem to come from Manila, many of
them still come from the provinces but were already snapped up by the top
basketball schools.
Five of these top high school players – Xavier’s Jeron
Teng, Chiang Kai Shek’s Kevin Baytan, La Salle Greenhills’ Thomas Torres,
Mapua’s JJ Alejandro, and San Beda’s Giboy Babilonia (San Beda) – were present
at the press conference for the Seaoil High School All-Star Game (that will be
played this Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 11am at the Ynares Center in Pasig City).
“Malaking karangalan para sa akin at sa Mapua na kasama
ako rito,” said Alejandro, the sweet-shooting swingman who is on his way to NU
for college. “Alam ko na malaking tulong ‘to sa career ko.”
“I feel happy and proud to be chosen to be a part of this,”
chipped in Torres who will be going to La Salle Taft for college. “I will get
to play with the best high school players in the country and at the same time
test my skills. It’s going to be a good and memorable experience.”
“Hopefully, many of these kids who have not been given
athletic scholarships will be given on after this game,” added National
Basketball Training Center Training Director Alex Compton. “And hopefully, this
event will become really big in a few years’ time.”
In the American game’s equivalent, every US NCAA champion
save for the 2002 Maryland Terrapins, had in its lineup at least one player in
the McDonald’s game. Time will tell if this transfers to the Philippine
version.
Seaoil High School All-Stars
Light Team
coached by Brit Reroma
Francis Abarcar (San Beda)
John Boo (DLSZ)
Kim Cinco (UPIS)
JJ Alejandro (Mapua)
Daryl Nazareno (San Beda)
Ian Carlo Valdez (Mapua)
McJour Luib (Letran)
Ariel Basas Jr. (Mapua)
Kevin Baytan (Chiang Kai Shek)
Brian Ilarde (UST)
Ralph Tansingco (NU)
Tomas Ramos (Ateneo)
Julius Cadavis (Sacred Heart School-Cebu)
Paolo Jabines (Pilgrim Christian College-CDO)
Randolph Toriño (Southern City
College-Zamboanga)
Seaoil High School All-Stars
Dark Team
coached by Olsen Racela
Thomas Torres (LSGH)
Paul Nieles (Chiang Kai Shek)
Jeron Teng (Xavier)
Jason Ligad (St. Jude)
Kyle Suarez (Ateneo)
Gabriel Reyes (DLSZ)
Ralph Napa (NU)
Van Adam Abatayo (San Beda)
Richie Villaruz (LSGH)
Gideon Babilonia (San Beda)
Antonio Bonsubre (San Beda)
Edric Estacio (FEU)
Janmer Gabito (St. Joseph School-Bacolod)
Paul Razel Rubin (Sun Yat Sen
School-Iloilo)
Dave Wilson Yu (Sacred Heart
School-Cebu)
ENTRANCE TO THE GAME IS FOR FREE!!!
Additional reading:
The drive of Coco Jabines Watch this kid from Cagayan de Oro compete in the All-Star Game.
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