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Palarong Pambansa: Ilustre goes 7 of 7 in swimming

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Karl Cedrick Basco, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/sports/04/29/palaro-2017-042817.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Maurice Sacho Ilustre of De La Salle Zobel. <cite>Photo by Karl Cedrick Basco, ABS-CBN News</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><h3>NCR basketball, volleyball teams eye title defense</h3>ANTIQUE – 21-0 in 3 years.For third straight year, no swimmer has beaten National Capital Region’s star swimmer Maurice Sacho Ilustre in the Palarong Pambansa swimming pool after the De La Salle Zobel tanker swept all his 7 events in the 60th edition of the games at San Jose de Buenavista, Antique Friday.Reigning UAAP MVP Ilustre capped his Palaro journey with golden performances in 200m freestyle and 4x100 meter freestyle secondary boys and finished Palaro 2017 with 7 gold medals, the same output he achieved in the past two years.Ilustre clocked 1:56.44 in the 200m freestyle, more than 6 seconds ahead of silver medalist Keane Ting also from NCR (2:02.76) and Western Visayas’ Moises Bito-Onon (2:05.55). The seven-time Palaro athlete also clinched the gold in relay in dominating fashion after his team touched the wall first at 3:42.98 time.“It feels really good. I was able to repeat it, 7 out of 7. It is not just me who can do it. Everyone can do it,” Ilustre said. “If you do your best you’re gonna get your goals.”Meanwhile, another Zobel swimming champion Nikki Pamintuan also topped all her six events in this year’s Palarong Pambansa after winning her last 2 events in the competition. Pamintuan grabbed the gold in the 200m freestyle secondary girls with a time of 2:10.29 and in the 4x100 freestyle, finishing the race at 4:12.00 mark.Pamintuan also broke the record in the 200m free during the preliminaries after tallying a time of 2:10.14, erasing 19-year-old record set by Althea Lim in 1998.Ilustre and Pamintuan were also hailed the best swimmers of the competition, the third for the former.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li>READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/04/28/17/nag-iisang-atleta-ng-batanes-bumiyahe-ng-higit-2-araw-makarating-lang-sa-palarong-pambansa">Nag-iisang atleta ng Batanes, bumiyahe ng higit 2 araw, makarating lang sa Palarong Pambansa</a></li></ul>Meanwhile, Western Visayas secondary boys’ basketball team continued to surprise the tournament after a 79-61 shocker over the Southern Tagalog at the jampacked EBJ Gymnasium to set gold medal match against the defending champion National Capital Region.NCR booked yet another finals ticket after pummeling Central Visayas, 72-45, to move just a win away in completing title-retention bid.The Big City delegates in volleyball secondary girls’ also dominated the Central Luzon Region in the semifinals of the Palarong Pambansa, 25-20, 25-6, to reach the gold medal bout yet again.CALABARZON clinched the other Finals berth, trouncing the host team Western Visayas, 25-18, 25-19 in the other semifinal match at the St. Anthony College Gymnasium.In athletics, CALABARZON’s secondary girls’ runners shattered the standing record in 4x400 meter run set in 2016 after winning the event with a new best time at 3:54.37, beating the defending champions and then record-holder Eastern Visayas (3:55.69). Taking the bronze was the Negros Island Region (4:01.03).Francis Obiena of NCR also set a new Pole Vault record after tallying a 4.30m mark to beat his own best number he did in 2016 (4.06m).The NCR finished the penultimate day of the Palaro 2017 with 56 additional medals, 24 of which were gold, to raise their total medal haul at 93 golds, 63 silvers, and 43 bronze.CALABARZON now sits on the second spot in the overall race after amassing a total of 37 golds along with 56 silvers and 53 bronze. Western Visayas slid to third with 36-25-37 gold-silver-bronze. Rounding up the Top 5 performing regions are Region 12 (26-22-34) and Cordillera Administrative Region (26-18-20).Meanwhile, MIMAROPA has arrested its six-day gold medal drought after winning two golds in Day 6 of the games.For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/" target="_blank"> ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.

For third straight year, no swimmer has beaten National Capital Region’s star swimmer Maurice Sacho Ilustre in the Palarong Pambansa swimming pool after the De La Salle Zobel tanker swept all his 7 events in the 60th edition of the games at San Jose de Buenavista, Antique Friday.

For third straight year, no swimmer has beaten National Capital Region’s star swimmer Maurice Sacho Ilustre in the Palarong Pambansa swimming pool after the De La Salle Zobel tanker swept all his 7 events in the 60th edition of the games at San Jose de Buenavista, Antique Friday.

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Palarong Pambansa: Ilustre goes 7 of 7 in swimming

Karl Cedrick Basco,

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Published Apr 29, 2017 04:28 AM PHT

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