Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Vince Hizon

Lighting a Fire

Right before the first round of UAAP Season 77 ended the Adamson Soaring Falcons had hit rock bottom. They were winless through six games, they suffered an embarrassing defeat scoring only 25 points against the eventual champions, and they allowed themselves to be at the receiving end of the bonfire inducing halt to the years-long UP Fighting Maroons’ losing streak. But when it looked like the Falcons were ready to give up on themselves, the alumni and the Adamson community did not. Monday night, right after a fire was lit in the Sunken Garden in UP Diliman, the Soaring Falcons were called to a special practice. Then head coach Kenneth Durmendes didn’t meet them that night, instead it was assistant coach Vince Hizon and team manager Gilbert Cruz who were waiting for them in the gym. “Nobody is happy with what is happening,” said Falcons team manager Gilbert Cruz as he addressed the team that Monday evening. To his right, the Season 77 Soaring Falcons who have gone on a six game...