Boracay Open 2009

By Mel Lozano

Photo by Marco Malaca

(The Boracay Open 2009 was held on March 21 and 22.)

For those of you who missed all the action in Boracay, shame on you. But here’s what happened –

Team Boracay (formerly known as Boracay A) won 15-7 against Dragon Lovers (Team USA plus our own Vicmar “Master” Tirambulo) to take their 6th consecutive Championship title. Last point came from a super lead pass from Jude to Wendell, lay-out catch at the endzone.

But the real nail-biter was the Saturday play-off game between these two top teams, wherein Boracay was down 7-10 with only minutes to go before timecap. Panoy threw two consecutive 2-point bombs to Xtian to win 10-11. Amazing.

POOL A

Champions — Team Boracay
Runner-up — Dragon Lovers
3rd place — Boracay Dragons

MVP Male — Xtian Guerrero, Team Boracay (absoultely unbelievable showing on the sand)
MVP Female – Sarah “Slider” Blythe, Dragon Lovers

Mythical 4
Ben Wiggins, Dragon Lovers
Scott Berens, Dragon Lovers
Jeffrey Rodriguez, Boracay Dragons
Karen Vicente, Team Boracay

Best Defense — Junthir Flores, Team Boracay (who made 2 double happiness points and was truly hard to shake off)
Best Offense — Panoy delos Santos, Team Boracay
Best Lay Out — Lolo Wendell Simbulan, Team Boracay

POOL B

Champions — Hong Kong Junk
Runner-up — So Mandy

Mythical 4
Onyok Regencia, Dragon Katol (who was apparently in Pool A! Hahaha!)
Kristin Franke, Hong Kong Junk
Kevin aka Ricky Hatton, Castaway
and another dude from Hong Kong

Spirit Award — Dragon Lovers, who displayed such excellent Spirit of the Game by calling their own fouls!

Party Award — Lauren from Bangkok, Castaway
Most Kissable Award — Vicmar, Dragon Lovers
Best in Costume Awards — Janine and Scott from Dragon Lovers

With a win against their toughest opponent yet, Team Boracay is poised to do real well at their next beach competiton — Paganello! Let’s all wish our Boracay boys all the best and hope they cream the competition there.

See you all next year!

Some footage of the final can be seen here.

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