De La Salle Zobel Junior Archers

[boyscout]

And just one silly question: I kind of like the old moniker of "Bengals", why the moniker change...? I grew up knowing Lasalle GREENHILLS as the high school Green Archers, so it gets a little confusing for me at my age... :-X*

A history o the monikers used by the different La Salle High Schools

De La Salle-Santiago Zobel's varsity team was first officially known as the "Green Bengals," with its mascot being the Battlin' Bengal. This identity was designed and proposed by Brother Raymond Bronowicz FSC, who was the first Brother-Director of the school at that time. He decided that the school should adopt its own unique identity per the practice of the different De La Salle schools at that time: La Salle Green Hills were the Rangers and De La Salle Lipa were the Dragons then the Stallions. The adoption of a new mascot was not welcomed by the studentry since a majority came from the grade school in the main campus in Manila and they were used to being referred to as the "Junior Archers."

In 1997, the Board of Trustees of the school, led by its then President-Mr. Lamberto de Ocampo, elected to officially call De La Salle Zobel's varsity team as the Junior Archers.
[edit]History with the UAAP

The Junior Archers, together with the De La Salle Green Archers, joined the UAAP in 1986, when De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU) picked De La Salle Zobel to be its representative in the Junior (High School) division. De La Salle Zobel was chosen, in spite of La Salle Green Hills being DLSU's junior representative in the NCAA from 1968 to 1981, because DLS Zobel was then designated as DLSU's official grade school and high school. De La Salle University-Manila's High School was phased out in 1968 while its grade school was phased out in 1984.

From the time that the Junior Archers joined the UAAP in 1986 until it won its very first basketball championship in Season 68 (2005-06), the Junior Archers' achievements was considered to be moderate at best.[1] The team never finished last, but outside of 1993, when the Junior Archers made it to the finals, but it never finished in the top two as well.

During UAAP Season 68 (2005-06), the Junior Archers won its first UAAP Junior Basketball title when it swept the UPIS Junior Maroons, 2-0. It was also De La Salle's first EVER Junior title in either the NCAA or the UAAP since 1955, when the De La Salle Green Robins of the then existing De La Salle College High School in Taft Avenue, Manila led by De La Salle basketball great—Kurt Bachmann, won 1955 NCAA Junior Basketball championship.

After its year-long suspension in UAAP Season 69 (2006-07) due to the ineligibility scandal that rocked the whole Lasallian community, the Junior Archers, together with their seniors counterparts the De La Salle Green Archers, won the "double championship" in men's basketball the next season. The Junior Archers swept the defending champions Ateneo de Manila Blue Eaglets to claim their second juniors basketball title in three years.
[edit]History with the WNCAA

The De La Salle Lady Junior Archers have been the WNCAA Junior Division Champions for eight straight years, from 1993 to 2000 and again in 2004.[2]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLSZ_Junior_Archers

[Sam Miguel]

^^^ Thank you for the information Boyscout, this was really very good reading. I had almost forgotten all about the Rangers moniker.

[bigfreeze_bibby]

It will be the battle of the unbeaten teams this Saturday as the Junior Archers eked out a 72-55 decision win over the UST Tiger Cubs to stay clean with a 6-0 slate. Both the Junior Archers and the Blue Eaglets will enter Saturday's game as the lone unbeaten teams in UAAP juniors basketball competition. Now if only the UAAP bigwigs can change the game schedule so that La Salle fans won't get torn in splitting their schedules in watching both the juniors and seniors game.

As you all know, the juniors game against Ateneo is scheduled at 3pm in BEG while the seniors will have their game at 4pm in Araneta against the UE Red Warriors. Both games will be played this Saturday. I am still hoping that the game sched for the juniors will be changed to allow La Salle fans to see the DLSZ-AHS juniors game.

[Joescoundrel]

Lasalle Zobel leaned on their deeper bench in the third period to turn back UST 72-55 in UAAP juniors action last weekend. Big men 6-foot-2 Juffy Andaya and 6-foot-3 Anton Sevilla came off the bench to spark an 11-0 run together with the outside shooting of guards Nico Elorde and Luigi Dela Paz to break open a close game 48-32 and never looked back. UST actually opened up strong in the first period going up 11-4 on the inside play of 6-foot-3 center-forward Kyle Neypes and 6-foot swingman Argyle Jimenez.

JImenez however picked up his third personal foul in early in the second period and quickly lost his rhythm. Pointguard Storm Riva came off the UST bench and tried to pick up the slack but Elorde, Dela Paz and the two towers combine of 6-foot-2 power forward Gwayne Capacio and 6-foot-3 center Ikey Herrera buily some momentum for the Junior Archers and just pulled away from the Tiger Cubs. UST swingman Carlo Aytona and 2-guard Marco Gonzalez tried to rallye the Tiger Cubs in the fourth period but simply came short.

[atenean_blooded]

Zobel's hot shooting late in the third and early in the fourth allowed them to pull away and beat the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eaglets, 77-74. Quite interesting was how both squads' style of play seemed to be mirror images of one another, only this time Zobel's hot outside shooting gave them the points they needed to weather a late rally and pressure defense by the Blue Eaglets.

Congratulations!

[Joescoundrel]

Jun Santos and Nico Elorde came alive with their outside shooting late in the third period and Lasalle Zobel hung on for the 77-74 win against Ateneo De Manila. Santos and Elorde busted a close game wide open with three straight treys and Luigi Dela Paz found his rhythm to build enough of a cushion for Zobel against Ateneo late in the third and midway through the fourth periods.

[Fried Green Tomato]

We heard it's another great game in the tradition of all dlsu-admu games.

Too bad at masyadong magaling gumawa ng uaap sched... ang galing-galing talaga!

Congrats to both teams! We may had the upper hand this time but it's still a long long way to go.

But i have this gut feel that we're going to see a DLSU-ADMU FINALS.... juniors & seniors!

... walang uusog! :D

[eustacia]

Is Boris Aldeguer still the head coach for the Junior Archers? If he is, well he's had a very good track record the last few years!

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Congrats Junior Archers

[Sam Miguel]

^ I had this impression that Coach Boris is now with Magnolia Beverages full time ... ?