The competition continues for Team Philippines in the Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 in 2023 on Thursday, September 28 in Hangzhou, China.
The country has sent 396 athletes from 40 sports to compete in this year’s continental meet.
TEAM PHILIPPINES SEPTEMBER 28 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Alex Eala settles for bronze after tough match vs higher-ranked foe
FINAL: Alex Eala ends her impressive #AsianGames campaign with a bronze medal after falling to the No.1 seed Zheng Qinwen of China in three sets, 1-6, 7-6(5), 3-6. | @LanceAgcaoilINQ pic.twitter.com/3kr2BOntzp
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PH Blu Girls advance to Asian Games softball super round
The Blu Girls finish second in Group B with a 2-1 record and will face the two best teams of Group A in the super round. | @jonasterradoINQ
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FILE–Justin Brownlee during Gilas’ open practice.—MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
Gilas Pilipinas smoothened the gaps in its game in the third quarter and then kept it together down the stretch to escape Thailand, 87-72, for an unbeaten start in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Justin Brownlee and CJ Perez were big once again for the Philippines with the beloved naturalized ace top scoring with 22 points, 15 rebounds and five assists while the latter chipped in 16 off the bench in the contest at Zhejiang University.
Asian Games men’s basketball: Gilas Pilipinas vs Thailand
#GilasPilipinas keeps on missing gimmes. Japeth Aguilar finally gets one to fall. 82-70, in favor of the Filipinos with 1:23 left. #AsianGames | @sonrdINQ
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68-50 in favor of #GilasPilipinas as this contest with Thailand enters the final period. #AsianGames | @sonrdINQ
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Perez scores from point-blank range. 66-47 for the Filipinos as the Thais call for time. #GilasPilipinas have broken this game wide open. #AsianGames | @sonrdINQ
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CJ Perez converts on the break, gives the #GilasPilipinas its biggest lead of the game, 53-43, after trailing Thailand by as many as 10 points.
Perez now has 10 points—again as a spark off the bench. #AsianGames | @sonrdINQ
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FILE– PH Blu Girls. Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines
The Philippine Blu Girls will have to win in order to secure a spot in the Super Round after being handed a 7-0 loss by host China after five innings on Wednesday in the women’s softball competitions of the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Fielding woes and silent bats coupled with the timely hitting by China at Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Center sent the Blu Girls to an even 1-1 record going into the final game of Group B against South Korea on Thursday.
Wushu sanda artist Arnel Mandal bags the Philippines’ first silver medal in the Asian Games 2023. –JUNE NAVARRO
HANGZHOU, CHINA—Arnel Mandal will bring home a silver medal for Team Philippines in wushu, the country’s first at the Asian Games here.
The former Filipino world champion threw volume punches and aggressively clinched in a drastic bid to take down China’s Jiang Haidong and yet these efforts weren’t enough.
After a pair of two-minute rounds, Jiang’s hand was raised by the referee in a 2-0 gold-medal triumph in the men’s 56kg sanda.
JUST IN:Arnel Mandal gives Team PH 1st silver medal after losing to China’s Jiang Haidong in sanda’s men’s 56kg finals in the Asian Games. #AsianGames | @junavINQ pic.twitter.com/HtbEmkX2DU
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Philippines’ Kayla Noelle Sanchez competes during the women’s 100m freestyle swimming heat at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
HANGZHOU, China—So far, swimmer Kayla Noelle Sanchez hasn’t delivered with her first four events as a National in the 19th Asian Games resulting in two individual national records and helping the women’s 4X100meter (m) freestyle relay team to a new Philippine standard.
A medal in the regional meet remains conspicuously missing with the two-time Olympic medalist left with shots in one more individual race and two relay races.
Sanchez simply hasn’t lived up to the hype surrounding her acquisition of Philippine citizenship last year.
Margielyn Didal did not finished her turns during the finals of Street Style Skateboarding competition of the 19th Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, China.PSC/POC Media Pool
HANGZHOU, China—Margielyn Didal got dethroned in the worst way in her defense of the Asian Games skateboarding gold medal Wednesday, forcing the fiery 24-year-old to focus on a bigger target: A second straight Olympics stint.
Ranked 40th in the world and still inside the top 44 that will make it to Paris next year, Didal—after finishing dead-last in the eight-strong finals field of the women’s street event here—will shoot to improve on her position to assure herself of a slot. And a big chunk of doing that has a lot to do with her health.
Photo: Asian Games Pool
The Philippines’ path to a medal in the 19th Asian Games men’s basketball tournament goes through a Thailand side reeling from a hapless thrashing in its first game.
But coach Tim Cone has been in this game long enough to know that is hardly a reason for Gilas Pilipinas to let its guard down.
“No doubt, Thailand is our ‘danger game.’ We simply cannot look past them to (get to) Jordan. We have to take care of business,” he told the Inquirer on the eve of the Thursday duel at Zhejiang University’s Zijingang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China, that gets going at 11 a.m. (Manila time).
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