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Philippine faculty basketball mourns lack of two gamers in drowning incident

June 9, 2026


Photograph: FIBA

Ateneo de Manila College introduced the passing of two members of their males’s basketball group, Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili, who drowned throughout a team-building exercise in Dipaculao, Aurora, Philippines.

The 19-year-old Baterbonia is a newly recruited participant, a standout guard-forward, and identified for his sturdy displaying in youth competitions after dominating the “Palarong Pambansa” within the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines.

Baterbonia is anticipated to compete on this 12 months’s UAAP Season 89 males’s basketball match.

Whereas 21-year-old Adili, a Nigerian international student-athlete, performed within the UAAP Season 88 males’s basketball match final 12 months.

The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, the nation’s basketball federation, launched a press release that it’s already in touch with Ateneo’s basketball officers to help.

“Because the Nationwide Sports activities Affiliation for basketball, the SBP has been in communication with the College’s basketball officers to find out what help could also be wanted, with explicit consideration given to these most affected by this tragic incident.”

The Ateneo males’s basketball program is underneath head coach Tab Baldwin, a former coach of the New Zealand nationwide group.

Baldwin can also be identified for eight seasons with the Auckland Stars, profitable 5 NBL titles, and was named NBL Coach of the Yr 4 instances.

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