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MetroVanIndependent.com
August 2015
Sports
Migrante's 2015 Champs Team Budget.
Team Budget is Migrante’s 2015 Basketball Champions
New Westminster, British Columbia —
Team Budget played its very best on
the court and won the Championship of
the Men’s Friendship Basketball League
organized by Migrante BC.
Team players with Coach Ben Lopez
and corporate sponsor Bob Akehurst from
Budget posed proudly with their medals
and trophy to the loud cheers of their
families and friends. The second place
went to Team D’ Hipers and third place to
Team Black Riders.
Ronald Ordinario of Migrante BC’s
Spor ts and Recreation Commit tee
declared, “This Friendship League definitely
had a good line up of basketball teams.
Team Budget‘s getting the championship
today was made sweeter by the supportive
presence of their Budget sponsor in the
audience. Migrante thanks all the teams
who joined the League.”
The final and championship round of
the Migrante Basketball League on July
18th was the culmination of 12-weeks
of Sunday basketball games held at the
Glenbrook Middle School gymnasium since
April 26, 2015.
Ten (10) teams competed in the League
-- Barako (with coach Kristian Asuncion),
Stallion (with coach Teddy Oropel), Lakay
(with coach Mario Orenzo), Black Riders
(with coach Gerole Billedo), Flight (with
coach Roldan Baculi), Kingcrest Cavs
(Rodolfo Dumaliang), Budget (with coach
Ben Lopez), Shots Fired (with coach JR
Valdez), Dark Knights (with coach Mark
Salgado), and D’ Hipers (with coach Jayson
Caruso).
The My thical Five medals were
awarded to Eric Publico and Patrick, both
of Team D’Hipers, Matthew Goroza and
Gerard Bautista of Team Budget, and
Darwin Coleta of Team Black Riders for
their valuable contributions to their teams.
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First Filipino NHL player nets eight goals in 2014-2015 season
By Alex Mino
Mathew Dumba, the first hockey player
with Filipino descent to have ever played in
the National Hockey League (NHL) made
his presence felt against grizzled veterans
last season.
Dumba, who has a Pinay mother
and a German-Romanian father tallies
a respectable eight goals in the regular
season on his sophomore year.
Not only that, the Minnesota Wild skater
had a surprising two-goal performance in
the tough playoff second round match
against the eventual 2014-2015 Stanley
Cup champions, the Chicago Blackhawks.
“To get a chance to play against
Chicago in the playoff and contribute to
the team means a lot to me,” he says.
Dumba, who was born in Regina,
Saskatchewan, also landed in eighth place
overall among the 30 teams in the power
play rankings.
The 21-year-old skater learned to skate
at age three and his family later moved to
Calgary, where he began playing minor
hockey for the Crowchild Minor Hockey
Association.
The 6-0 tall defenseman also played
minor hockey for Calgary Bronx from 20072009 and Edge Mountaineer High (20092010) when he was in secondary school,
before moving up to the Western Hockey
League.
He had split stints in the WHL with the
Red Deer Rebels from 2009-2013 and with
the Portland Winterhawks from 2013-2014.
Dumba was the 1st round 7th overall
draft pick of Minnesota Wild in the 2012
NHL Entry Draft, where he stayed for one
year with the affiliate of Minnesota, the
Houston Aeros (2012-2013) in the AHL.
He has a very aggressive approach to
the game and can rush up the ice with the
puck with aplomb and can provide huge
open-ice hits that change the momentum
of the game.
One thing his coach Mike Yeo likes
about him is the electric skating ability he
possesses. However, he needs to play a
little more control in order to maximize his
vast all-around potential in the National
Hockey League.
Mathew Dumba.