By Waylon Galvez
It’s a go.
The NCAA Policy Board has approved the proposal of the Management Committee to resume the games in the remaining sports in NCAA Season 95 starting March 16.
Arellano U’s Peter Cayco, NCAA ManCom chief
According to NCAA ManCom chairman Peter Cayco, majority of the Policy Board members gave their approval already to restart games in volleyball, football, lawn tennis, soft tennis and girls’ volleyball.
Events in track and field are set between March 16 to 21, while the 15-under basketball will be played April 25 and beach volleyball on April 29.
The league’s cheerleading competition will be held as scheduled on March 30.
The NCAA called off games in different sports because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), halting the elimination round games in both volleyball and football.
University of Perpetual Help System Dalta earned an outright finals berth in men’s volleyball after sweeping the elimination round with a 9-0 card, leaving Emilio Aguinaldo College, Arellano University and either College of Saint Benilde, San Beda or Mapua in the stepladder playoffs.
The women’s side will determine if there would be a stepladder playoffs pending the last elimination game between the CSB Lady Blazers and Arellano Lady Chiefs.
“There is still a deciding game between College of St. Benilde and Arellano University, so we still don’t know if it’s a stepladder like in the men’s or a regular crossover playoffs,” said Cayco.
“As for the junior’s volleyball, we’ll have to fit that into our schedule without conflicting the other schedule of the men’s and women’s games.”
Last February 13, the NCAA decided to postpone all events in senior’s division after the Commission of Higher Education issued a directive to “avoid attending, participating in, and organizing events that draw a huge number of attendees” due to COVID-19.
A week before that, the league has called off games in the junior’s division following a similar order from the Department of Education.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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