MANILA, Philippines?After serving a one-year suspension, Philippine Christian University will rejoin the coming NCAA season by participating in five or six events before taking an indefinite leave next year to ?clear its ranks.?

PCU athletic director Art Alombro Tuesday said the school hopes to also field a senior basketball team if it can get clearance for certain members of the Dolphins crew who saw action in recent pre-season tournaments.

?We are trying our best to follow whatever guidelines the NCAA gave us to follow,? said Alombro. ?But the response is very good, especially among the students.?

Alombro said PCU will definitely field teams in basketball, volleyball, tennis, table tennis and chess. But the school will again skip football, taekwondo and swimming.

?We are very happy to be back and we will work on the things the NCAA told us to work on,? he said.

PCU needs to apply, like all other prospective members, to regain its old place in the league after making sure all its athletes have complied with NCAA regulations during its leave of absence.

The Dolphins were suspended last year after the NCAA discovered that the school fielded ineligible players in its junior basketball team during the 2006 season.

Alombro said that PCU is appealing for the league?s understanding in the case of some senior cagers who might be declared ineligible by playing in the Unigames and the Mayors? League.

?We hope the NCAA will reconsider because there are just invitational games and that after we got suspended we didn?t have any tournaments to play in, except for those two,? he said.

The Dolphins were runners-up to the powerhouse San Beda College Red Lions in 2006.