Canossa, Kings’ Montessori bag bronze

MANILA, Philippines — Canossa Academy (Lipa City) needed four sets while Kings’ Montessori won in three frames to claim the boys and girls bronze medals, respectively, in the Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) Under-18 Championships yesterday at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

Canossa Academy staved off Angatleta Orion (Bataan), 25-16, 25-23, 21-25, 25-20, and Kings’ Montessori beat De La Salle-Lipa, 25-19, 25-18, 25-14, to make the podium of the championships organized by the PNVF headed by Ramon “Tats” Suzara.

Kings’ Montessori captured the girls’ bronze medal behind the hard-hitting performances of Kriska Gindap and Paula Palma.

The eventual champs disposed of their opponents in only 87 minutes.

In Saturday’s classification matches, De La Salle-Lipa bagged fifth place after a 25-20, 26-24, 13-25, 25-20 win over Hermosa Volleyball Club while Philippine Christian University defeated Taytay, 25-21, 27-25, 25-23, to finish in seventh spot.

De La Salle-Zobel, on the other hand, scored a 23-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-4, 15-12 win over Gracel Christian College to finish fifth and Canossa Academy trounced San Juan Institute of Technology-Batangas, 22-25, 25-18, 26-24, 25-17, to end up seventh in the women’s contest.

The gold medal matches between University of Santo Tomas and National University in the girls’ division and VNS-Savouge and Umingan in the boys’ side were played late Sunday.