PHNOM PENH – Four Filipino pencak silat aces settled for bronze medals after losing their semifinal matches in the tanding competitions of the 32nd Southeast Asian Games Tuesday at the Chroy Changvar Convention Center.

Angelone Abardo Virina, competing in the female Class A division (45k to 50kg), sustained a 26-57 loss to Indonesia’s Nadhrah Binte Sahrin and bowed out of the gold medal match.

Rodgielyn Parado suffered the same fate in Class C (55-60kg) at the hands of Thi Cam Nhi of Nguyen of Vietnam 23-29.

It was a similar scenario in the male division, where Gregmart Benitez (Class C) and Ian Christopher Calo (Class E or 65 -70kgs) yielded to their opponents.

Thailand’s Phiraphon Mittasan shut the door on Benitez 20-0 while Indonesian Tito Hendra Kurnia sent off Calo 45-21.

The four joined the silver-winning men’s artistic ganda double tandem of Alfau and Almohaidib Abad and the third-placer women’s artistic regu team of Franchette Elman, Sharia Jizmundo and Jessapituan dela Cruz in Team Pencak Silat’s honor roll.

Four more tanding fighters are seeing action in the semifinals in Angel-Ann Singh (Female Class D), Dines Dumaan (Male Class A), Denmark Abduradad (Male Class D) and Joash Cantoria (Male Class H).

They shoot for a finals seat against Indonesia’s Atifa Fismawati, Vietnam’s Van Thong Bui and Duy Tuyen Nguyen, respectively.