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Mycah Go and Carl Berdal pen the perfect NCAA swan song as Season 100 Finals MVPs, with the CSB Lady Blazers and Arellano Chiefs each achieving league volleyball history to cap a momentous centennial year
MANILA, Philippines – Though it fought valiantly in the NCAA’s centennial season, the Letran volleyball program went home to Intramuros runners-up twice over as the Benilde Lady Blazers and Arellano Chiefs copped the Season 100 women’s and men’s volleyball titles at their expense on Wednesday, June 11.
Over at the women’s side, the mighty Lady Blazers handed graduating captain, the PVL-bound Mycah Go a perfect send-off, routing the Lady Knights in the finals Game 2, 25-19, 25-22, 25-19, to complete the series sweep and a title four-peat at the Playtime FilOil Centre in San Juan City.
Wing spikers Cristy Ondangan and Clydel Catarig led another balanced, championship-level effort with 13 and 11 points, respectively, while Go — completing a golden trifecta as champion, MVP, and Finals MVP — bows out of the NCAA with 9 points after scoring 12 in the four-set Game 1 win.
Go, now a two-time league MVP, further boosts her stock in the PVL ranks as she joins a highly intriguing ZUS Coffee young core that includes last year’s No. 1 draft pick Thea Gagate, former Rookie of the Conference Sharya Ancheta, this year’s No. 5 pick AC Miner, and overlooked star middle Riza Nogales.
Benilde’s four-peat for its fifth overall title marks the first four-in-a-row championship stretch in NCAA women’s volleyball since the legendary San Sebastian Lady Stags won six in a row for 23 golds total from Season 81 to 86 (2006-2011).
The Lady Knights, meanwhile, exit the season with their heads held high after they snapped the Lady Blazers’ six-year, 43-game winning streak before finishing the elimination round as the second seed with a 15-3 record.
Rookie of the Year Vanessa Sarie paced the season-ending loss with 12 points as partner-in-crime Judiel Nitura scored 11.
In the men’s division, the Arellano immortalized its name in the history books after downing Letran in a series sweep, capped with a 24-26, 25-21, 25-15, 25-17 Game 2 conquest for its first men’s volleyball championship since joining the NCAA in 2009.
AC Guinto led the comeback win after a first-frame setback with 17 points and 20 excellent receptions, while the graduating Carl Berdal powered his way to Finals MVP honors — also the first in school history — with 16 points and 6 digs.
With 24 excellent sets, veteran playmaker Adi Villados helped five Chiefs to double-digit scoring, the other three being Jiwen Sinuto with 14, Anfernee Curamen with 12, and Jake Pangilinan with 10.
Arellano’s title win marks the first time in 10 years that an NCAA men’s volleyball program won a breakthrough championship — not since Season 90 titlist Emilio Aguinaldo College, which also joined the NCAA in 2009 alongside Arellano.
John Derrick Bautista paced the loss for Letran with 15 points, Christer Lou Ambrosio added 12, while Dave Lardizabal and Vince Himzon scored 11 apiece. – Rappler.com
