DLSZ, CKSC, CEU keep WNCAA titles
MANILA, Philippines – De La Salle Zobel, Chiang Kai Shek College and Centro Escolar University swept their best-of-three finals rivals to retain their respective titles in the 47th WNCAA basketball tournament at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum last weekend.
DLSZ turned back St. Paul College Pasig, 58-45, to nail a seventh straight championship in the midgets division; CKSC dumped DLSZ, 68-40, for back-to-back juniors crown; while CEU picked up its sixth straight seniors plum with an 82-42 rout of Philippine Women’s University.
In volleyball, DLSZ notched two more championships while San Beda College Alabang seized the seniors trophy – all via two-game sweeps, too.
The midgets DLSZ squad beat St. Scholastica’s College, 25-14, 25-18, and its juniors crew downed CKSC, 25-12, 25-14, 25-19. SBCA blasted CEU, 25-23, 25-20, 25-27, 26-28, 15-12.
DLSZ upped its total first semester title haul to four after ruling the junior futsal finals while PWU bagged the seniors title.
Anicka Chabelia Castaneda was named junior MVP.
Meanwhile, action in the country’s first and only tri-level league for women will resume next year with the staging of the badminton, cheerdance, cheerleading, poomsae, softball, swimming, taekwondo and table tennis events.
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