OTHER than to gain more experience and meet new friends, Leslie Gaite had no other expectations when she joined the 6-legged Amit Cup, the country’s first all-women billiards tournament.
A criminology student at the Philippine College of Criminology, Ms. Gaite ended up with more as she ruled the event with a close 9-8 victory over Carmille Lumawag from Bacolod City in the recently held finals held at the Marboys Billiards Cafe in BF Parañaque.
Both Mmess. Gaite and Lumawag though breezed through in the semifinals as they posted similar 7-2 victories over their respective opponents, Cheeya Navarro and Phoy Andal en route to the finals.
Three-time world champion and multi-titled Rubilen Amit, who initiated the series as part of her advocacy to discover new female players and grow billiards in the distaff side, spending efforts and personal money, was happy about the turn out, “in our final leg, there were 58 entrees, some of them repeaters as they wanted to qualify but most of them were new faces in the spirt,”
The top 16 players who earned the most points after the fifth legs qualified to the one day finals of the series sponsored by Scarab with PSC Commissioner Bong Coo also providing assistance to Ms. Amit in this grassroots program.
Next on tap for Ms. Amit is the second season of the series set to start in June.
