Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Shakey’s girls volley national tourney kicks off Thursay By Henry C. Villalva
NEGRENSE volleyball enthusiasts will once again be treated to intense volleyball competition when the 2007 Shakey’s Girls Volleyball League (GVL) Tournament of Champions reels off on July 19 to 21 at the University of St. La Salle college covered court.
Opening ceremonies in this tournament featuring the regional champions from various parts of the country is slated on Friday, July 19, at 9:30 a.m., according to USLS varsity sports director Roger Banzuela, president of host Negros Occidental Volleyball Association (NOVA) and past president of the
Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF).
Negros Occidental will be represented by USLS-Integrated School which recently captured the provincial title of this age-group developmental seried by defeating La Carlota City’s Doña Hortensia Salas Benedicto National High School in the playoff, 25-17, 16-25, 25-19, 25-18 to top the six-team provincial qualifying tournament also held at the USLS covered court.
The other teams who saw action in the Negros Occidental eliminations were last year’s titlist Doña Monserrat Lopez Memorial High School of Silay City, St. Benilde School-La Salle, Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod and La Consolacion College-Main.
Iloilo will be represented in this year’s national finals by Central Philippine University while Metro Manila will be represented by Hope Christian Academy which defeated University of Santo Tomas in the National Capital Region qualifying series finals.
University of Southern Philippines topped the Cebu regionals and earned the right to see action in the July 19-21 national competition here for its second
consecutive stint in the nationals.
“This tournament is an honest attempt by the PVF to discover promising young talents from the grassroots particularly in the provinces in the hope of finding future talents for our national women’s team,” Banzuela told Sun.Star Bacolod in an earlier interview.
Games in the Shakey’s Tournament of Champions will be open to the public for free.
