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Dasma shocks reigning champ Quezon; Neophyte Pasay ekes past Negros

Published Sep 22, 2025 03:29 pm

At A Glance

  • Dasmariñas City Monarchs pulled the rug from under reigning champion Quezon Tangerines with a big 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 win to open the 2025 Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association (MPVA) in style over the weekend at the Dasmariñas City Arena.
Dasmariñas City Monarchs pulled the rug from under reigning champion Quezon Tangerines with a big 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 win to open the 2025 Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association (MPVA) in style over the weekend at the Dasmariñas City Arena.
Cheered on by a roaring homecrowd, the National U-backed Monarchs escaped with the slimmest of margins in each of the set of the close duel with Celine Marsh and Vange Alinsug joining forces.
Marsh fired 16 points including five in the clincher while Alinsug had 11 points for Dasma represented by two-time reigning UAAP champion and three-time Shakey’s Super League titlist (SSL) NU in a new era without the multi-awarded duo of Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon.
Providing coverage for them was Myrtle Escanlar with eight points while Alexa Nichole Mata and Minierva Maaya chipped in six apiece for the NU-powered Monarchs under new mentor Regine Diego.
Diego, a former PVL mentor with the defunct F2 squad, replaced Sherwin Meneses in the offseason with the MPVA, founded by also MPBL chairman Manny Pacquiao, serving as her first hurrah with the Lady Bulldogs.
And the Lady Bulldogs were quick to impress at the expense of the Tangerines, who for their part are being backed by four-peat NCAA champion College of St. Benilde Blazers under the watch of seasoned mentor Jerry Yee.
Zam Nolasco scored 17 points to serve as the lone bright spot for Quezon, which did not absorb a defeat in the last MPVA season until its 10th game against Biñan with a sizzling 9-0 start.
Quezon had a 17-2 overall record last year marked by a 2-0 sweep of Biñan in the best-of-three championship of the upstart volleyball league backed by Mikasa, Asics, Spurway Enterprise, Gerflor, Smart Communications and XIV Apparel.
In the first game, newcomer Pasay City Lady Voyagers hacked out a gritty 25-23, 13-25, 25-17, 23-25, 15-8 win over the Negros ICC Blue Hawks behind Iari Quimson and Florize anne Papa.
Quimson and Papa rifled in 13 points each while Euricka Eslapor added 12 points. Angel Mae Antipuesto had nine while Jozza Mae Cabalsa and Aiko Urdas contributed eight apiece in Pasay’s balanced onslaught.
Andrea Caparal scored 17 while Angeliz Cosme and Gelah Lopez added 13 and 12 points, respectively, in a losing cause for Negros that’s out to avenge its seventh-place finish last season.
All games of the MPVA are accessible live and on-demand on Puso Pilipinas Live: https://www.pusop.com/
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