IT WAS a low-key, almost uneventful year that ended on a high, emphatic and successful note.
With the Philippine Basketball Association struggling to recover its old clout under new commissioner Noli Eala and the sporting community shaken by the failed assassination attempt on outspoken athletics president Go Teng Kok, Philippine sports hungered for a positive development that finally came when it was least expected.
Campaigning without fanfare in the World Tenpin Bowling championship in Malaysia last September, Cecilia Yap, Liza del Rosario and Liza Clutario captured the gold medal in the ladies’ trios with a record-breaking performance that recalled the country’s long list of triumphs in the sport.
