Shooters score in Australia  Reprinted from The Guidon 30 June 1997 FOR ATENEO Rifle Pistol Team member Jeff Jongko (V BS CE) and Alvin Chingcuanco (IV AB IS) competing in the ARAFURA Games held in Darwin, Australia, from May 10 to 17, was a great experience.      Winning has hardly on their minds, garnering first prize in their different grades even less so.  But it happened, and it was not just a stroke of beginner's luck.  "It was almost like a gift of God," Jongko said.      Jongko won the gold with 543 points in men's air pistol grade B, edging out Wes Matthew by a measly point.  Malaysian Mohd Shahrul Mohd Dahan took the bronze with 539 pts.      Chingcuanco, likewise, bagged top honors in the men's air pistol grade D with 486 pts, another close call to 467 pts amassed by Joe Holloway of Papa New Guinea.  Fellow Atenean Jeff Yu (IV BS Bio) settled for 4th place overall, 20 pts below 3rd placer Fred Ruzsicska's 464 point total.      In the Women's Division, Joy Yap (V BS MIS) took the bronze in the grade C air pistol event with 313 points, behind Lee Lee Chiu's 360 and Australian Christine 355 pts.      Darlene Dy (BS LM '97) competed in the women's air pistol grade D with a 306 to land her in the medal count with a silver.      "It [winning] was unexpected.  Just being there was good enough.  I was very thankful and happy," Dy shares.      "Hindi ko ini-expect na mananalo sila dahil hindi nila kilala and kalaban," said coach Danny Flores who failed to go the event.      The games, joined by 4,200 participating athletes from 26 Asia-Pacific countries including the Philippines, heralded the first time the the air pistol shooting event was included.  The shooters hope to return to the next ARAFURA games two years from now.  Johanna Zulueta Sidelines Shooters continue streak at PNSA (21 November 1997)    Ateneo Rifle Pistol team members bagged numerous awards in the October edition of the Philippine National Shooting Association monthly rankings at the Amoranto Stadium, October 19.     Veteran shooter Carvin Medina (AB DS '96) led the Men's Pistol with a score of 563.  Bobby Gonzalez, Ronnie Robles and Jeff Jongko (V BS CE)  followed closely with scores of 555, 554 and 549 respectively.  Five other Atenean shooters scored higher than 500.     Jose Moises Salonga (III AB Eco) was top gun in the Men's Air Rifle with a score of 553.  Alan Cabredo came nest with a 538.     In the Ladies' Pistol, Pia Irlandia (III BS MCT) fired a 334, while Cristina Flores (III AB MEco) shot a 342 on Women's Air Rifle.  Lloyd Manaloto  Shooting Perfectly (9 October 1997)    While Filipinos trekked to Luneta for the much talked of anti-charter change rally, the Philippine National Shooting Association had other things in mind.  It held its monthly classification shoot at the Amoranto Stadium, September 21, 1997.     Once again the Ateneo shooting team gave no mercy.  Joy Salonga (III AB Eco) seized the top slot in Men's UIT air rifle.  His score of 540 surpassed by far Jeff Yu's (IV BS Bio) 501 and Alex de Jesus's 491.     Carvin Medina (AB DS '96), meanwhile finished with a 547 in Men's UIT air pistol, giving him third place.  He fell behind National Champion Karolino Gonzales and veteran shooter Ronnie Robles who garnered a 564 and 557, respectively.  Jun Jorge (IV BS Bio) and Kevin Perez (II BS Bio) filled in 4th and 5th slots with a 545 and 534 respectively.      On the ladies side, it was Agnes Espinosa who climbed to the top with a 340, edging out Pia Irlandia (III BS MCT) by a mere 5 points and Joy Yap (V BS MIS) by 9.  The Ladies UIT air rifle event was no contest for Cheryl Ann Velasquez (III BS ME) scored a 365, beating Christina Flores' (III AB MEco) score of 343.      Sixth, 10th and 12th rankings were how Ateneo fared in the Big bull local air rifle event.  Patrick Chuasoto (BS Mgt '89) gained 6th with a 540.  Serina Aidasani Trigger Happy (14 August 1997)     Five Ateneo Rifle Pistol Team shooters ranked among the top ten during the close of the July edition of the Philippine National Shooting Association (PNSA) Monthly Classifications at Amoranto Stadium, July 27.      Leading the charge, Carvin Medina (AB DS '96) scored a 546 to take third place overall in Men's Pistol.  Jeffrey Jongko (V BS CE) and Jun Jorge (V BS Bio) shot identical 530s to clinch the sixth and seventh place spots.  Rounding up the men's efforts, Willy Cayetano (IV BS CS) placed tenth with a score of 500.      Joy Yap (V BS MIS) placed second in Women's Air pistol while Roslyn Reyes (II BS LM) took the second spot in Women's Rifle.      Ateneo's dominance of the sport at the college level may soon be challenged by other schools. Yap asserts, "More schools are getting interested."  Lloyd Manaloto ARPT: A Tradition of Winning Reprinted from The Guidon, 21 June 1990     "After every struggle, a victory."  Impressive enough?  Not quite, as far as the Ateneo Rifle Pistol Team is concerned, after every struggle is a series of victories"  Hogwash you say?       Maybe not.       In 1983, the Citizen's Military Training Shooting Team got women shooters to participate in the CMT Interschool Competition.  One of the Melissa Rosario, took it from there and pioneered the ARPT.  Conceived as a shooting team separate from and distinct from the CMT Shooting Team, Melissa sought Varsity status for it in 1984.  It was to be granted only two years later.       That year, 1986, the ARPT bagged the overall championship in the Ateneo Open, the University of the Philippines Open and the National Rifle and Pistol Association Interschool competition.  Consequently, the team finally gained varsity status, and rightly so.       If it was under then president Miel Moraleda’s term that the team earned official school recognition, it was in the term of Kathy Khoo who found the "AiRPorT Club members" a "home" in 1987.  It simply was a pelota court converted into a modest shooting range.  Ingenuity? Or a case of Third World blues?  Take your pick.       In 1988, then president Bunnee Gamboa plunged the team into a massive recruitment campaign and made the ranks swell from a rag-taggish seven to a platoonish 54.  That same year under the superb tutelage of team coach Danny Flores, Donna Vallar blitzed the national shooting scene and soon found herself in the Philippine National Team.  She has since been in the SEA Games twice.  Small wonder that the ARPT duplicated its 1986 feat in the UP Open and bagged the Air Safari title for the first time.       Staying true to what was fast shaping up as a winning tradition the AiRPorT club members repeated their win in the Air Safari Competition the following year.  It also managed to place a still formidable 2nd and 3rd Overall in the National Shooting Open Ladies Pistol and Ladies Rifle, respectively, Cecile Litonjua, ‘89-’90 president, thus kept the team’s winning ways going.       Enter Yvonne Dayrit, the team’s incumbent president, upon whose shoulders now rests the task of steering the ARPT to even greater heights.       As a final remark, lest the ARPT members be misconstrued as a bunch of pseudo-military amoks who blasted away at the competition every possible chance they get, let me just say that there is more to them than just rifles and pistols.  There’s "Gotcha" war games at Antipolo, or Shooting the Rapids in Pagsanjan, or swimming in Bamboo beach and Puerto Galera, or simply cooling off in Baguio or Tagaytay.  These are outings that foster camaraderie and unity among its members. Or maybe even more…      So the next time  you read about the ARPT, don’t give it that dumb look.  It could be hazardous to your health.      Take a bow guys.  Jigs Carlos, ARPT PRO 1990