LAOAG CITY, Philippines — Who else however the fancied bets from the Huge Metropolis.
Nationwide Capital Area, as anticipated, cruised to its 18th straight basic championship with a whopping 237-medal harvest on the shut of the 2025 Palarong Pambansa yesterday on the Ferdinand E. Marcos Memorial Stadium right here.
The Metro Stars collected 117 gold, 70 silver and 50 bronze medals general in each secondary and elementary divisions for a runaway victory since taking the lead on Day 1.
Calabarzon (Area IV-A) claimed second place with a 47-68-66 tally, solely three golds forward of Western Visayas (Area VI) that accomplished the rostrum with a 44-54-58 haul.
NCR’s last gold got here from the secondary ladies’ volleyball as UAAP champion Nationwide U-Nazareth College regained the crown and denied Bacolod Tay Tung (Western Visayas), 25-12, 25-14, 25-8 a three-peat feat.
That win made it up for NCR’s letdown within the secondary boys’ basketball, one of many Video games’ centerpiece occasions, following a shocking quarterfinal exit of NUNS towards Western Visayas’ St. Roberts Worldwide Academy of Iloilo, 76-67.