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Philippine Superliga unravels 2 tournaments

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Fourteen teams will take part in the Philippine Super Liga when it unravels two sets of tournaments at the end of the month.

There will be eight contenders for the crown, including the Petron Blaze Spikers when the the sixth season of the Philippine Super Liga All Filipino Volleyball Conference gets going on Oct. 30 at the FilOil-Flying V Sports center in San Juan.

Six squads, led by three UAAP teams, will fight it off for the top honors in the first-ever staging of the Collegiate Grand Slam 2018 at the Ynares Sports Center on Nov. 3.

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“It will be full of action among the best teams of the PSL,” said PSL president Ian Laurel during a presentation yesterday at the Club Filipino in San Juan.

League officials said they are proud to be a finalist of the prestigious Sports Industry Awards Asia 2018. The PSL is the only entry in the women sports category, with the winner known in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov. 30.

“It is a distinction for us. We are proud of it because it validates and strengthens the work, the hard work that we have done in the past years. It inspires us to face the challenges that we make, and the challenges in front of us,” said PSL Chairman Philip Ella Juico.

The Blaze Spikers get their campaign for another crown going when they meet Coco Life Asset Managers at 4:15 p.m., while the Smart Giga Hitters clash with Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors at 2 p.m.

Later, the F2 Logistics Cargo Movers are set to do battle with the Cignal HD Spikers at 7 p.m.

In the opening games of the collegiate spikefest, the University of the Philippines Lady Maroons take on University of the East at 12 noon, while Colegio San Agustin plays the University of Santo Tomas at 2 p.m.

The teams involved in the All Filipino Conference will meet in the round robin first round before they play according to rank, distributed into two pools in the second round.

From there, the best five squads in each pool will clash in the quarterfinals and seek slots to the semifinals.

The finals will be a best of three series between the two winners of the semifinal round.

On the other hand, the top four teams in the collegiate division will seek slots to the gold medal finals’ match.

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