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Joey Villar

@JoeySVillar

Writes sports for The Philippine STAR. Husband. DAD. Chess master in my dreams. Fantasy Basketball nut. Basher-blocker. Sportswriter forever!

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Letran joined CSB (8-0) and LPU (6-2) in the Final Four.
Interestingly, if CSB beats LPU, CSB will move straight to the best-of-3 finals while LPU, Letran and a fourth team go through a stepladder, knockout semis. If LPU wins, regular Final Four.

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And all the thanks should go to Oliver Almadro, who transformed this amazing Letran squad to a legitimate contender that it is now.

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In the NCAA, Letran will make its first Final Four stint since making it that far in 2012. It eventually made the finals before losing to University of Perpetual Help.

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If Choco and Chery win by straight sets, there is a chance Petro Gazz could slide to No. 4 and gets eliminated and Chery and Creamline fights one last time for a finals slot.

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There is a scenario that may forge a three-way tie for the second and last finals seat if Choco Mucho wins and Chery Tiggo repeats over Creamline.

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If both Choco Mucho and Creamline win, it will be Sister Act II in the PVL finals.

Sibling rivalry sequel.
Family wars you may call it.
Philippine volleyball fandom's dream.
Haters' nightmare.

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A win for Choco Mucho will propel it straight to the finals for the second straight conference.
And there is big hope that the franchise could finally nail the big one this time.

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For those asking, there is no PVL game today.
It is set tomorrow (Sunday) at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
It will be Creamline vs Chery Tiggo at 4 p.m. and Choco Mucho vs Petro Gazz at 6 p.m.
It will be a do-or-die game for Creamline, Chery Tiggo and Petro Gazz.

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The league will decide with finality Sunday or Monday but PVL commissioner Sherwin Malonzo have already informed all PVL managers of the decision to adjust Celso's role in a letter Friday.

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In that game, Petro Gazz challenged in that particular play anyway, this time for block touch. But there was obviously no block touch that resulted to the Angels burning their last challenge for the set that they could have used in that block touch call assessed on Aiza.

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Palou also said the other contested call, the overreaching, was correct and can't be challenged anyway because it was a judgment call. The Philippine Star

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On that contested call on the block touch, Palou said
Celso 'could have made the challenge himself' even if Petro Gazz no longer has a challenge left. The Philippine Star

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Was officially told by PVL president Ricky Palou just now that first referee Bobby Celso and the second ref and one lines judge who were involved that controversial call in the third set 'will not officiate for now' until a final decision is rendered. The Philippine Star

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While CSB remains the NCAA's women's volleyball yardstick, San Beda's Angel Habacon has taken over Kat Santos as the league's face. I mean, Angel is electric.

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I remembered Tweeting here that this could be the conference Choco Mucho could win its breakthrough PVL title.
I think it still stands.

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