FutBulakenyos wins CLFL inaugural championship

MALOLOS CITY—It is now final, FutBulakenyos Football Club is the inaugural season champion of the Central Luzon Football League (CLFL).

During a brief awarding ceremony at Trader’s Hotel in Subic Bay Freeport on Saturday night, the Bulakenyos was handed the Sinukuan perpetual trophy which will be at stake again in the season.

This came after FutBulakenyos prevailed in a Saturday’s double header against Pampanga FC 9-1 at the Remy Field  in Subic Bay Freeport and kept its unblemished 6-0 win-loss record.

The Bulakenyo’s relentless charge was led by Larry Ramos who scored six goals, the highest individual score in a any game during the CLFL inaugural season that started last May 20.

A Bachelor of Science in Sports student at the Bulacan State University (BulSU), Ramos received the Golden Boot Award during the awarding ceremonies.  He scored a total of 12 goals in six games.

FutBulakenyos’ coach Emmanuel Robles said the game has no bearing in the championship as they clinched it as early as July 1 when they scored a come from behind 3-2 victory against  Lighthouse Amihan FC, also at Remy Field.

“We already made history as the inaugural champion of the CLFL, but we want to show everybody every game, whether it is non-bearing game, we still have to play our best,” Robles said.

The said game went on despite heavy rainfall, leaving some player sliding on the rain drench field.

In the second game, the much younger Lighthouse Amihan FC of Olongapo City defeated Tarlac FC 7-3.

Like in the previous games, Lighthouse Amihan stack up goals and Tarlac FC tried to answer them but was successfully deflected.

Lighthouse Amihan’ Edriel Tagaan was chosen as the Best Goal Keeper of the inaugural season of the CLFL.

For the next season of the CLFL, a Futsal competition is being organized.

John Bayarong of the Lighthouse Amihan said at least 10 teams are expected to join in the Futsal competition.

He said the Futsal or indoor football fits well into rainy season of the CLFL.

The CLFL was conceive in January when Bayarong, Robles and Christian De Ocampo of Tarlac FC in Olongapo City.

They said there is a need to organize a local football league in order to further popularize the sports to discover and develop new athletes.  (Dino Balabo)

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Bulacan looking for effective flood control and waste management

by Ramon Efren R. Lazaro

CITY OF MALOLOS – Floods and the mounting problems on garbage disposals have made the provincial government of Bulacan to focus on the proper technologies that could minimize the bad effect of climate change in the province.

A technical presentation on the environmental protection and dike (EPAD) system for flood control and waste management was made on Tuesday to Gov. Wilhelmino Sy Alvarado and some provincial officials and environment and risk reduction management personnel by Nelson Huerva of Starke Industries Corp. at the official residence of the governor inside the capitol compound in Malolos.

It has been noted that floodwater has been inundating many parts of the province particularly during the rainy season because the river system in the province have been clogged by enormous volumes of garbage and water lilies.

Huerva presented their suction dredger-amphibious excavator-EPAD system that can be used to clear the river system of its garbage and sedimentation.

The Bulacan officials were updated on the technologies being applied in the EPAD system that could make dikes stronger and at least 80 percent cheaper compared on concrete dikes usually being used in coastal areas and river embankment.

EPAD-constructed dikes, Huerva explained are much stronger and versatile compared to concrete dikes that are susceptible to scouring and at the same time entails less cost for its construction.

With this announcement, Alvarado said that it is recommendable that the technology be introduced to fishpond operators so that their dikes could withstand the scouring of seawater particularly in the coastal villages of Tibagin and Pugad in Hagonoy town, but first the technologies must pass the standard of the country’s research center.         

Huerva also explained that the said technologies are being applied on the construction of dikes for coastal landfills in other countries like the one that they have done to the waste transfer station in Penang , Malaysia , their EPAD supply to Singapore and to the 45 waste transfer stations in Shanghai , China .

Obando Mayor Orencio Gabriel explained that these are precisely what his town need, where a sanitary landfill is being constructed by Eco Shield Development Corp.

Raffy Tecson of Eco Shield explained that they are using the same technology in their landfill.

Alvarado said that Eco Shield should go on a massive information dissemination to inform the public of what modern technology can provide to make its project safe adding that “naunahan ng masamang haka-haka ang paggawa ng sanitary landfill sa coastal area ng Obando. Dapat malaman ng mga tao na may tamang technolohiya para masiguradong ligtas ang nasabing proyekto.”