Revealed Might 31, 2025 1:21pm
Up to date Might 31, 2025 1:21pm
The De La Salle-School of Saint Benilde males’s and ladies’s groups purpose for his or her respective finals spots when the NCAA Season 100 volleyball Remaining 4 opens on Sunday on the Filoil Centre in San Juan.
The four-peat in search of Girl Blazers will tackle Mapua College at 2:30 p.m., whereas the top-seeded Blazers will go towards Colegio de San Juan de Letran at 12:00 p.m. Each the boys’s and ladies’s groups are armed with a twice-to-beat benefit.
The Girl Blazers are coming off a second spherical sweep within the event and completed on high of the standings with a 16-2 card.
For Benilde ladies’s staff head coach Onyok Getigan, the lengthened tourney allowed the staff to regulate after absorbing two losses within the first spherical.
“Malaking bagay ‘yung haba ng liga so naka-adjust kami, nakikita ‘yung lapses, then kung sino ang dapat mag-step up, nag-step up talaga,” Getigan mentioned final Might 25.
Benilde nonetheless has veteran Mycah Go in its arsenal, together with the league’s high blocker in Zam Nolasco and high setter Chenae Basarte. The Taft-based squad additionally leads by way of spiking, serving, and setting.
The Girl Cardinals, in the meantime, are returning to the Remaining 4 after lacking it final season.
Mapua completed the elimination spherical with back-to-back losses to get an 11-7 file, sufficient for a ticket to the semis.
Mapua head coach Clarence Esteban has the likes of high scorers Raissa Ricablanca, Freighanne Garcia, and Alyanna Ong as they hope to push Benilde to the restrict, identical to what they did within the first spherical the place they received towards the Taft-based squad.
Within the males’s division, the Blazers are hoping to return to the finals — a feat they final achieved in 2019.
The Benilde males’s staff completed on high of the standings with a 14-4 card, however fell brief towards Lyceum of the Philippines College of their ultimate prelims match final Friday.
Head coach Arnold Laniog mentioned his gamers’ mindset will probably be actually essential, particularly as their conditioning has been examined as a result of lengthy tourney.
“‘Yung haba ng event na first time na nangyari, two rounds, nagkakaroon ng upset sa second spherical. Dulo na to eh, ‘yung conditioning ang laki ng bearing. On the similar time, ‘yung thoughts setting, centered ka talaga, particularly sa preparation,” Laniog mentioned.
“It is extra on need ng staff, ‘yung need natin kailangan manaig talaga. Sa coaching pa lang, maramdaman na natin na could gusto tayong marating sa sport.”
Benilde may have the likes of Rocky Roy Motol, Jacob Agassi Herrera, and James Harold Marasigan to depend on.
Letran, then again, has received its final three video games to formally safe a Remaining 4 spot and completed the elimination spherical with a 12-6 card.
The Knights, who additionally defeated Benilde within the first spherical, may have league high spiker Vince Himzon, Bembem Bautista, and John Wayne Araño of their second straight Remaining 4 look.
The opposite brackets within the Remaining 4, Letran vs Arellano within the ladies’s aspect, and Mapua vs Arellano within the males’s division, will face off on Tuesday.
—JKC, GMA Built-in Information