Roosterman No. 11

Patrick Antonio top performer of 2011Roosterman No. 11; January, 2012Winning the World Slasher Cup isdream come true to every cocker.Winning back-to-back in one year is a feat beyondexpectations. But Patrick Antonio achieved it in2011. Didn’t he?Antonio won the WSC January edition solo.His entry, Sagupaan B50, notched eight wins in arow for a perfect 8 points and simply steamrolledthe opposition. Then in the June edition, his roosterstook over in representing Spartan DR 1 in thefinals. Going into the finals, Spartan DR 1, with registeredowner Rey Briones fielding his own warriorshad already scored an unblemished 4-win-slate. Inthe ensuing finals, it was Antonio who took thecudgel for Spartan DR 1 scoring 3 wins against a lossfor a total of 7 points enough for a tie for the titlewith two other entries.The other two champions were Gov. ItoYnares fielding Boy Jiao fowl and Rikki Reyes.The big question was: Did cocking Idol PatrickAntonio score his 5th World Slasher Cup victoryto tie the record 5 crowns held by Jun Santiago?This was the whole story:After Spartan DR-1 of WSC June, 2003 championRey Briones barged into the finals with 4straight wins, the Philippines cocking idol who waseyeing to tie both a sweep of the WSC titles in a yearand the 5-WSC crown-record of Jun Santiago, camein the finals fielding his roosters for the Spartan entry.Spartan DR I took early lead with a win vs.Octagon in fight no. 8. In fight no. 9, PANIQUI-CAT– drew with "OLIVER WRN to keep within strikingdistance with 4.5. Liberator Rachel Mitzki JU duplicatedthe Spartan‘s feat by trouncing AB Jaya BM ofBoy Marzo. in fight 25. After the first round in thefinals, Spartan DR-1 and Liberator of James Uy werethe only remaining teams with 5-0 perfect slates.While the two Panique-CAT teams had 4.5 pts.In fight 35 Thunderbird dealt the PaniqueCAT group its first loss in 12 fights. Going into thisfight Panique CAT had 5 wins and a draw while PaniqueCAT-1 had 4 wins and a draw.Fight 37 saw Liberator suffered its first losswhen it bowed to Alyssa Jordan while Spartanscored its six straight win in fight 38 to take sololead.Spartan, again fielding a Sagupaan cock,bagged the championship with still a fight to go bywinning its 7th assignment against AB Jaya BM ofBoy Marzo. Spartan, however, bungled the shot atsolo champion when it lost its last fight against PaniqueCAT-1.Meanwhile, the other co-champions, NCABig Event of Ynares and PR Knights Rian of Reyes,rallied from 3-1 standing going into the finals with 4straight victories.In fight no. 60 Antipolo JSF bowed to 333Berjaya Group and lost all hope for as possible tiefor the championship. Antipolo was going for its 7wins in eight fights.AS Nowitski of Alan Siaco also lost its lastfight and missed a share of the title..6