Start of the Shakey's V-League 7th Season Conference 1

The Shakey's V-League 7th Season 1st Conference officially opened yesterday, April 11, 2010 at The Arena in San Juan City. Shakey's contribution in uplifting one of the most well loved sports by the Filipino started way back in 2004, with some of the pioneers in the collegiate volleyball that stayed up until now.

With the growing fondness of the Filipinos with this sport, the tournament itself is one of the many steps that we will take to harness potential volleyball players in the country and to reign again as volleyball superstars in Southeast Asia.

Now at its 7th season, the Shakey's V-League adopts a new format in the tournament proper. 10 teams are now participating and divided into two groups playing via the round robin format. Under this new scheme, 3 Visayan Schools join the league at this early stage of the game.

To start of the game, College of St. Benilde went up against Ateneo De Manila University wherein the latter won in 3 straight sets. With Soriano and Sontaya as their guest players, the Lady Eagles were able to pull a win against the Lady Blazers though the scores on each set was rather a close one. Player of the Game was Fille Cainglet.

In the main event, old school rivalry was rekindled as the last conference's champions UST Lady Tigresses went up against the FEU Lady Tamaraws. Winning the match in 3 straight sets, the game was relatively a breeze for the Lady Tigresses despite having only one guest player which is Mary Jean Balse. On the other hand, two new guest players for FEU, Yongco and Dela Cruz's performance was not totally a solid one as the Lady Tamaraws are under a wing of a new coach.

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Shakey's V-League 7th Season

Upon checking the league's official website, www.v-league.ph, the premier women's volleyball league in the country will now have 10 teams on its line up with three (3) Visayan Teams, namely: University of San Jose - Recoletos (USJ-R), Southwestern University (SWU) and University of St. La Salle - Bacolod.

The Visayan Teams usually come in during the quarter finals, now all is but an equal playing field in bagging the championship crown. SWU will be treated as a Metro Manila team replacing the UP Fighting Maroons who is preparing its roster for the 2nd season this July, 2010.

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) ended the 6th conference with a twin win, getting back-to-back titles, making them the winningest team in the league with 5 titles, next is DLSU with 4. DLSU has the title of the most back to back championship titles of 3.

The UAAP and NCAA schools are ever ready to step into the volleyball court once again for school pride and team honor. Excerpts from v-league.ph:

"Under the format, the 10 teams will be divided into two groups and play a one-round robin elims with the top four squads from each group advancing to the quarterfinals. The Last 8 will again be grouped into two and play a single round with the top two teams in each group clashing in a pair of crossover semis. Winners will then clash for the crown in another best-of-three affair.

Playdates are set on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 2 p.m. Games will be shown on a delayed basis the following playdate on NBN 4 although matches can be viewed live on webcast at www.v-league.ph."

V-League photo came from the internet.