NU Woman Bulldogs star Bella Belen in motion within the UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball event. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — Bella Belen is on observe to win her third UAAP MVP award after main the Season 87 girls’s volleyball event statistical rankings on the finish of the primary spherical whereas Kennedy Batas might be Ateneo’s first MVP since Marck Espejo within the males’s race.
After main Nationwide College to an ideal 7-0 file, Belen is on tempo to affix an elite membership as a three-time MVP winner together with the likes of Alyssa Valdez of Ateneo from Seasons 76 to 78 and Far Japanese College’s Monica Aleta from 2000 to 2002.
The 2-time UAAP MVP led the race with 159.600 factors after the primary spherical. She wasn’t within the prime 5 scorers with 107 factors off 84 assaults, 17 aces, and 6 blocks, however she was the highest server with 0.68 aces per set, sixth in digs with 2.60 per set, and fifth in receptions with a 33.58 % effectivity charge.
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Belen, who turned girls’s volleyball’s first rookie MVP in Season 84 in 2022, vows no let-up within the second spherical regardless of dominating their first seven video games.
“Because it’s already the second spherical, all groups will regulate. We’ll be extra acquainted with one another. So we have to step up much more. We now have to do higher than we did within the first spherical, and I do know we will with the assistance of our coaches and teammates,” stated Belen in Filipino after surviving Finals rival College of Santo Tomas in 5 units on Sunday at Good Araneta Coliseum.
Near Belen’s MVP bid is La Salle’s rising star Shevana Laput after tallying 157.692 statistical factors after the Woman Spikers’ 5-2 marketing campaign in Spherical 1.
The third-year Woman Spiker led the Finest Reverse Spiker race with 274 factors, forward of NU star Alyssa Solomon, who had 214 factors, and UST Tigress Reg Jurado (185) after main La Salle to a 5-2 first-round end.
Belen can also be on observe to profitable her third Finest Exterior Spiker award, main the place with fellow former rookie MVP Angel Canino with 303 and 267 factors, respectively.
Shaina Nitura, who lately set the scoring file of 38 factors and topped all scorers with 170 factors within the first spherical, was third within the MVP race with 145.556 SPs, and might be a runaway winner of the Rookie of the 12 months as her closest competitor was La Salle setter Mikole Reyes, who’s twenty third in statistical factors.
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Canino (141.538) and Vange Alinsug (130.000) have been within the prime 5 of the MVP race. Rounding out the highest 10 Solomon (126.000), final 12 months’s prime rookie Angge Poyos (120.345), Jurado (113.103), NU’s Shaira Jardio (106.400), and Lams Lamina (101.600).
La Salle’s Lilay Del Castillo led all center blockers with 181 factors, as Ateneo’s AC Miner is on tempo of profitable the second Finest Center Blocker with 171 factors.
FEU’s Tin Ubaldo is forward of the aggressive Finest Setter race with 192 factors, adopted by Season 84 Finest Setter Lamina (173) and UST’s Season 86 Finest Setter Cassie Carballo (164).
Jardio topped the Finest Libero within the first spherical with 205 factors, main Adamson’s Juris Manuel (197) and UST’s two-time Finest Libero Detdet Pepito (189).
Ateneo’s Ken Batas.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Within the males’s division, an Ateneo Blue Eagle leads the MVP race for the primary time since Espejo gained his fifth and final in 2018 as Batas garnered 160.370 SPs — the perfect scorer with 142 factors, fourth in spiking effectivity at 45.52%, fourth in aces with 0.37 per set, and eighth in digging with 1.44 per set.
Batas can also be favored to win the Finest Reverse award with 230 factors after main Ateneo to a 4-3 file.
UST rookie JJ Macam is second within the SP rankings with 148.750 — additionally main the Rookie of the 12 months race–adopted by FEU’s Mikko Espartero (147.917), La Salle’s Noel Kampton (145.000), and UST’s Popoy Colinares (140.833).
Macam heads the Finest Exterior Spiker desk with 281 factors, adopted by Espartero (259) and Kampton (226).
Within the Finest Center Blocker race, Colinares leads with 245 factors, adopted by Ateneo’s Jettlee Gopio (194).
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UST’s Dux Yambao leads the Finest Setter class with 196 factors, whereas La Salle senior and reigning Finest Libero Nard Guerrero is in a good battle to maintain his throne, topping the race with 210 factors and main FEU’s Vennie Ceballos (201).
