Action in the Negros Island Beach Volleyball Tour Sunday. –BVR PHOTO
MANILA< Philippines–Uswag Ilonggo 1’s MJ Ebro and Honey Grace Cordero and Madekind Naturals’ Erjane Magdato and Jennifer Cosas emerged as women’s co-champions in the Negros Island Beach Volleyball Tour Sunday at Center Mall in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.
With most of the matches pushed to three sets on the final day of the tournament, the tournament officials decided to declare two champions as the duel between Ebro and Cordero, and Magdato and Cosas was cut short due in the third set to darkness. The match ended with both teams tied at 8-8.
Uswag Ilonggo 2’s Gelimae Villanueva and Kyla Gallego completed the podium finishers, securing third place in the two-day main draw organized by Beach Volleyball Republic.
The pairs of Ebro and Cordero, and Magdato and Cosas will wait for another exciting leg of Negros Island Beach Volleyball Tour to settle who will reign the ultimate champion.
In the men’s division, Asian Volleyballista’s Rancel Varga and Dominique Gabito took the championship after NU Boysen 1’s James Buytrago suffered serious cramps and could not play in the title match.
Buytrago and Pol Salvador, who overcame a one-set deficits to beat NU Boysen 2’s Jhon Cabatuan and Jeffer Guerrero, 12-21, 21-11, 15-10 and NOBVC’s Philip Sugaton and Peter Sugaton, 20-22, 24-22, 15-13, in the do-or-die matches prior to the championship, settled for second place.
The Sugaton twins finished third.
Varga and Gabito went undefeated in four matches in the two-day tournament. They went straight to the Finals following a 21-7, 21-11 romp of the Sugatons.