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Boracay Dragons – Champions Once Again!

By Mel Lozano

Boracay Island was the scene of high flying action when the 7th Boracay Beach Ultimate Open took place there last March 21-22, 2009.

This year, 16 teams with players from Manila, Boracay, Iloilo, Hong Kong, Canada, Cambodia, Thailand, Switzerland and Great Britain descended unto  Boracay’s famous white sand beaches to outbid, outplay and outlast the 5-time reigning Boracay Open champions, Boracay Dragons A (Team Boracay). Read more…

Boracay Open 2009

By Mel Lozano

photo: Marco Malaca

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. Read more…