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Fil-Canadian joins RP Youth team
Source : Staff   
Friday, 08 August 2008 11:36

A high-leaping Filipino-Canadian is the newest addition to the Nokia Philippine Youth team that will compete in the FIBA Asia Junior Men Championship on Aug. 28 to Sept. 5 in Tehran, Iran.

Matthew Wright, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard who starred for the Martin Grove high school team in Toronto, arrived Tuesday and immediately braced himself for the 18-under squad’s final tune-up competition next week.

“He’ll add ceiling to the team,” said national mentor Franz Pumaren of Wright, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student who topscored in 18 of the Groves’ 26 recent games.

The young nationals will compete against Lithuania, China and Chinese Taipei in the Manila Youth Invitational basketball championship on Aug. 14 to 17 as a run-up training to Iran.

Lithuania will banner three 7-footers, including FIBA-Euro Youth championship Most Valuable Player Donatas Motiejunas.

Led by Norbert Torres, another Filipino-Canadian, the Philippines qualified to the Iran joust after ruling the Southeast Asian Basketball Association Junior Men Championship in Kuala Lumpur last May.

The Philippines, which last won the Asian junior crown in 1982, is in Group C along with the United Arab Emirates, Chinese Taipei and Lebanon.

Defending champion China, Japan, India and Hong Kong are in Group A; Kazakhstan, Jordan, Korea and Saudi Arabia in Group B; and host Iran, Syria, Uzbekistan and Malaysia in Group D.
 
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