Defending champion National University weathered a late third set surge by De La Salle University to draw first blood, 25-16, 25-12, 27-25, in the 2024 Shakey’s Super League Collegiate Pre-season Championship best-of-three finals Friday night, Nov. 22, at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. Games Sunday: (Rizal Memorial Coliseum) 1 p.
m. --- UST vs FEU (bronze medal match) 5 p.m.
--- NU vs La Salle (Finals Game 2) Defending champion National University weathered a late third set surge by De La Salle University to draw first blood, 25-16, 25-12, 27-25, in the 2024 Shakey’s Super League Collegiate Pre-season Championship best-of-three finals Friday night, Nov. 22, at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The Lady Bulldogs displayed grace under pressure to foil the Lady Spikers’ attempt to drag the contest to a fourth set and zero in on completing a three-peat under new coach Sherwin Meneses.
Reigning Most Valuable Player Alyssa Solomon took over in the third set where she scored seven of her game-high 14 points to bring NU to within a win away from a grand slam after its conquest of the National Invitationals last July in the league supported by Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, GCash, Chery Tiggo, F2 Logistics, Peri-Peri Charcoal Chicken, Potato Corner, R and B Milk Tea, Grab Philippines, and Summit Water. Bella Belen added 10 markers while Vange Alinsug added seven points capped by a perfectly timed offspeed attack to ice the one-hour, 46-minute revenge victory over the Lady Bulldogs’ second r.