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Eagle Women Chosen For WRWC Semis

Eagles head coach Pete Steinberg has made no changes toher selected players following the USA's 47-26lossto England last Thursday. While the Eagles closed theirPool B slate with a defeat, theygarnered a crucial bonus point in that matchto secure a semifinal spot as the best second-place poolteam.

Undefeated in the tournament,New Zealand enters the semifinals following three dominant wins inPoolA, including a 48-5 triumphover Canada.

For the USA, its strong defense was testedand beatenagainstEngland, and the Eagleswill have to be better in the knockout game-- a matchup in which the Americans are most certainly the underdogs.

However, by reaching the semis, the USA team has made this the most successful Women's Rugby World Cup for the Eaglessince 1998. Now they have their sights set on a berth in the final. England will play France in the other semifinal in Belfast.

Reserves 16. Samantha Pankey 17. Hope Rogers 18. Nick James 19. Abby Gustaitis 20. Kristine Sommer 21. Kayla Canett-Oca 22. Tess Feury 23. Jess Wooden

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By ABS-CBN Sports on Aug 22, 2017 02:21 PM

Amid the frenzied celebration on the court that followed the Purest Water Defenders capture of the Premier Volleyball League Open Conference championship against the Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors recently, the top honcho of BaliPure announced that his Mabalacat, Pampanga-based company is keeping the present team for the next season and the seasons after that.

Panlileo was ecstatic and breathless as he made the announcement to this writer, bursting into laughter next as he watched Risa Sato gather the scattered confettis in her hands to release it again in the air.

This, our first title since joining the commercial league last year, is further motivation for us to keep maintaining a team in the PVL, said the mild-mannered top honcho of the Mabalacat, Pampanga-based water supplier and bottler of purified water. We have always said and I am saying it again that our company will always field a team in any tournament organized by Sports Vision. We are in this for the long term.

An equally jubilant Gil Cortez, BaliPure team consultant, was telling sportswriters elsewhere on the court that he felt vindicated in his previous claim that it was the foreign guest players of the Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors who had beaten them in the finals of the opening competition of the new PVL this year, the Reinforced Conference.

He had asserted then that his team carried the strongest local lineup. That heart-stopping Wednesday night, the Water Defenders, powered by the never-say-die Grethcel Soltones, proved his boast right.

Sobrang super

Talagang buwis-buhay ang nilaro ko sir, said Soltones. Talagang ibinigay ko sa Game 3 ang lahat ng best ko. Ganoon din ang mga teammates ko.

Sobrang super happy po was all Sato could say when asked how she felt about BaliPures first championship.

Gel Cayuna, an eleventh-hour recruit from Far Eastern University, was having that top-of-the-world feeling. Nagpapasalamat po ako at nakasali ako sa pinaka-solid na team sa PVL. Masayang-masayang-masaya po ako.

Towards the end of the court celebration, libero Lizlee Ann Pantone opted to stay away from the raucous group, watching the spontaneous proceedings on the mounted TV screen teary-eyed. Masaya lang po kaya medyo naiiyak ako.

Up in the gallery Jerry Malabanan and his three younger daughters were watching the ever modest Jerrili, his firstborn, let her hair down in elation over winning her first championship in the Philippines since coming home for good from California in 2013 to be able to play collegiate volleyball here with the FEU Lady Tamaraws in the UAAP.

We lived for this moment when Jerrili would win her first title with any local team, said the senior Malabanan, who brought in a group of 44 at Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan City to watch the deciding match. The family is very proud of her.

No sooner had Grethcel hammered in the final point that broke the backs of the Lady Warriors than Jerrilis mom phoned her dad from Placentia, California, to let the family know that she watched the whole knockout game with their relatives via The Filipino Channel starting at six in the morning.

I wish I were there to share with you that moment we have been waiting for, Malabanan quoted her wife Liberty as telling him.

Mrs. Malabanan is the only one in the family who stayed behind in the US to continue her office work for a maritime company.

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The 25-year-old custodian will play in the AFC Cup knockouts later this month for Bengaluru FC

Federation Cup champions Bengaluru FC are to face DPR Korean side 4.25 SC on April 23rd in the first of the two legs of the AFC Cup knockout rounds.

On Wednesday, they released a 25-member squad list which had been registered for the AFC Cup.

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However, with the club having signed goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu on August 16th, the question on everyones mind is whether the player would be allowed to ply his trade in the said competition.

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The answer is in the affirmative and this is thanks to the shrewd planning on behalf of the club.

The last date to register players for the AFC Cup tie was August 6th. Not known to many Gurpreets name was included in the 26-player list submitted.

The catch was that the JSW-owned club had to submit the contractual documents including the International Transfer Certificate (ITC) at least seven days before the first leg of the AFC Cup knockout game, ie, by midnight on August 16th.This is was what the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) had demanded from Bengaluru FC.

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Following the breakdown of the potential move to Portuguese club Boavista FC, Bengaluru FC moved swiftly in the market to directly deal with Stabaek FC. The Norwegian club had problems of their own as they had to sign Gurpreets replacement, John Alvarage from Sweden before the end of the transfer window with the deadline being August 16th.

On Wednesday, Bengaluru FC officials had alerted the concerned authorities at the AFC, All India Football Federation (AIFF) and the Norwegian FA to act swiftly in order to ensure that they get the ITC and that his contractual obligations are processed just in time. In fact, the ITC was submitted at 11:30 pm IST, just 30 minutes prior to the expiry of the deadline.

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The Blues have been plotting the move for Gurpreet for the last six weeks or so and have finally managed to rope him in. He will participate in the first training session with the rest of the team on Friday.

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Each legislative session thousands of bills and amendments are introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Only a fraction become law, and an even smaller portion receive wide media coverage.

These bills impact the lives of people living in Pennsylvania every day.

Each week The Sentinel will highlight one bill that has not received widespread attention.

Beginning around 2013, media reports began cropping up about teens playing the knock-out game.

The reports typically showed a youth punching an unsuspecting bystander with the intent of knocking them unconscious.

The incidents reportedly had devastating consequences including at least two deaths being allegedly linked to the unproved attacks.

However, little evidence is available to support the claim of the knockout game being a widespread trend.

Rep. Dan Moul, R-Adams County, has introduced a bill to increase the penalty for anyone caught playing the knockout game.

News reports indicate that these attacks are unprovoked, Moul wrote in a co-sponsorship letter. Serious injury can result, as can death. The person is often rendered unconscious. The teens target a person who is unaware that the blow is about to come.

Under House Bill 140 it would be a third degree felony, punishable with up to 10 years in prison, to intentionally, knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury or serious bodily injury to another by striking another in the face or on the head with a hand or fist, without provocation, whether or not the victim is rendered unconscious.

It is currently illegal to walk up to a stranger and punch them in the head or face.

This offense would likely be categorized as misdemeanor simple assault, felony aggravated assault or criminal homicide, with a main difference being the severity of injury.

The bill could effectively make a felony out of what would typically be classified as misdemeanor simple assault if the offender strikes the victim in the face or on the head with a hand or fist, without provocation.

On top of the new felony classification, Mouls bill would allow juvenile defendants to be charged as an adult and processed through the adult court system rather than the juvenile system.

Currently Pennsylvania law allows for, and at times requires, charges against a juvenile be filed in adult court for more serious offenses.

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June Mar Fajardo has been joining Gilas practices in Lebanon with minimal pain in the strained calf that has ruled him out of Gilas' lineup in the first three games. Jerome Ascano

GILAS Pilipinas could play with a complete lineup in its knockout quarterfinals game against rival South Korea in the 2017 Fiba Asia Cup.

Big man June Mar Fajardo disclosed he's ready to play against the dangerous Koreans in the 11:30 p.m. match up at the Nouhad Nawfal Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon.

The 6-foot-10 San Miguel Beer center continued to practice with the team, and while there is still some pain in his strained calf muscle, Fajardo thinks his recovery is all in the mind.

"Getting better. Actually makakalaro na ako," said the three-time PBA MVP in the reality series Kwentong Gilas.

"Ok naman. May discomfort lang. Pero parang sa utak lang na may sumasakit."

Gilas Pilipinas resident therapist Dexter Aseron assured Fajardo is ready to go, having personally seen his progress from the injury since the team departed from Manila to the Lebanese capital more than a week ago.

"Maganda yung progression niya from injury. Its getting stronger everyday, hopefully he gets to play kahit for a few minutes," said Aseron on the eve of the match against South Korea.

Two others in the injury list in Christian Standhardinger and Calvin Abueva are also likely to play, according to Aseron.

The long-time national team therapist said he expects Standhardinger to be close to 100 percent fit again after missing Gilas' last game against Qatar due to severe stiff neck and shoulder injury.

On the other hand, Abueva, who sprained his ankle in the team's 90-84 win over the Qataris, still has some swelling on his injured foot, but which Aseron described as manageable.

"He's (Abueva) feeling better pero may konting swelling pa. Hopefully we get the swelling down more," said Aseron, who had been busy the past few days attending to injured players in the team.

"Well do some strengthenining pa before the game (against Korea)."

While coach Chot Reyes was happy seeing the team practiced with everybody accounted for going to its most important outing in the Asian spectacle, he said the coaching staff made the practice just a bit light in order not to further aggravate the health concern of the players.

"We were sharp mentally today. It's hard to push them anymore than we did (Tuesday), 60 to 70 percent. We didnt want to take the risk of another guy sufferring another pulled muscle or twisted ankle," said the Gilas mentor.

"We didnt want to take the risk of another guy going down."

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