SISTER teams Creamline and Choco Mucho clash in a no-holds-barred duel in a day of affection, both seeking a key win to enhance their respective drives in the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference back at the Smart Araneta Coliseum today.
While the Cool Smashers look solid with back-to-back lopsided wins to launch their title-retention drive despite the absence of their skipper, Alyssa Valdez, the Flying Titans have a lot of recovering to do, coming off a crippling shutout loss to the resurgent Petro Gazz Angels last Thursday.
Cignal and Akari clash in the other game in a battle of teams out to come out of the doldrums and revive their hopes in the 9-team single round robin eliminations of the season-opening conference of the league organized by Sports Vision.
The HD Spikers, third placers last year, dropped a pair of straight-set defeats to the Chery Tiggo Crossovers and the Cool Smashers and so did the Chargers, who succumbed to the Flying Titans and the F2 Logistics Cargo Movers.
The HD Spikers are expected to bank on their experience to check an early skid with coach Shaq delos Santos hopeful to finally draw the best from Ces Molina, Chay Troncoso, Rachel Anne Daquis, Roselyn Doria, Jerrili Malabanan, Riri Meneses and playmaker Gel Cayuna.
Akari has shown big improvement despite bowing to the Cargo Movers. New recruit Dindin Manabat is again fancied to lead the Chargers with the seasoned campaigner confident to further inspire the likes of Janine Marciano, Trisha Genesis and Princess Madrigal as they try to break their early spell.
