Team Phl bags 2nd gold

MANAMA - Charlie Ratcliff promised nothing less than a gold medal just days before she left for the 3rd Asian Youth Games here. She kept her promise.

- By JOEY VILLAR

The 16-year-old from Calatrava, Negros Occidental was all determination and power as she overwhelmed Thailand's Nakanantaphon Khaihong with a first-round submission victory via guillotine to claim the gold in the girls' 45-kilogram modern MMA (mixed martial arts).

It was the second gold for the country after Kram Airam Carpio delivered a pencak silat mint less last Monday.

It hiked the country’s total medal haul to two golds, the same number of silvers and three bronzes, which was good for ninth overall.

One of those silvers came from Ratcliff’s 17-year-old brother Travis, who fell to Iranian Amirmohammad Hatamianafshari in the boys’ 60kg traditional MMA earlier.