IT’S not how you start; it’s how you finish.
Letran spiker Mikaela Lopez battled back and beat Emilio Aguinaldo College’s Yvonne Reyes to bag the title in 96th NCAA All-Star Spiking Challenge at the Victoria Sports Tower in Quezon City.
The Lady Knight finished the spiking course in 57 seconds, nipping her Lady General opponent who recorded 1:17 to settle for the silver medal.
Lopez hurdled first-round leader Cherry Quizon of San Beda University in the semifinals.
Reyes held off Arellano University’s Kimberly Gabito to advance to the finals.
In the spiking competition, there are three targets on the court and each player is given three balls to spike inside each target.
The player will declare starting position and intended target sequence, where a hit target gets one point.
Other alumni who suited up were Mapua University’s Kat Racelis, College of St. Benilde’s Marites Pablo, Perpetual Help’s Bianca Tripoli, Jose Rizal University’s Angela Bondoc, San Sebastian College’s Bamcie Belen, and Lyceum’s Czarina Orros.
The country’s oldest collegiate league plodded on with its new season with online events, with the basketball and volleyball tournaments getting cancelled.
Among the options the NCAA considered was holding its season in a bubble at the Inspire Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna
The plan did not happen due to the whopping P40 million estimated cost and without the nod from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
