NU Woman Bulldogs’ Bella Belen throughout a UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball Finals sport towards La Salle Woman Spikers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Nationwide College star Bella Belen received her third MVP in her ultimate UAAP enjoying 12 months whereas Adamson’s Shaina Nitura was the runaway Season 87 Rookie of the 12 months after a record-breaking debut.
Belen has joined an elite membership as a three-time MVP winner together with the likes of Alyssa Valdez of Ateneo from Seasons 76 to 78 and Far Japanese College’s Monica Aleta from 2000 to 2002.
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The fourth-year Woman Bulldog garnered 96.23 Statistical Factors, approach forward of runner-up Nitura, who had 74.26 SPs to grow to be Adamson’s first Rookie of the 12 months within the girls’s volleyball Remaining 4 period.
Nitura set a brand new league-high in scoring with a complete of 371 factors in two rounds regardless of lacking the Remaining 4 with a 6-8 file.
Belen, the first-ever rookie MVP within the girls’s division, completed fourth in scoring with 246 factors whereas rising as probably the most environment friendly attacker with a 37.76 % success fee.
Belen was additionally high the service class with 30 complete aces, averaging 0.57 per set. Protection remained a part of her power as she positioned fifth in digging (2.79 per set) and third in reception (44.44 % effectivity).
The 22-year-old Belen received her third MVP in 4 seasons after making historical past as UAAP girls’s volleyball’s first-ever Rookie MVP in Season 84 and reclaiming the crown final 12 months earlier than profitable their second title in Season 86.
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Now in her final dance, Belen appears to be like to efficiently defend NU’s throne once they look to comb La Salle in Recreation 2 of the best-of-three finals on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Area.
Belen was one of many Finest Outdoors Spikers of the season for the third time with rival and fellow former rookie MVP Angel Canino, who received her second since Season 85 two years in the past.
Canino, the Season 85 MVP, ranked second in scoring with 264 factors whereas putting fourth in spiking (35.78 % success fee), ninth in blocking (0.45 per set), and seventh in reception (41.64 effectivity).
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Lams Lamina additionally received her second Finest Setter award with 185 factors after standing out in her place in Season 84. Finalist La Salle had three particular person awardees, as Shevana Laput earned the Finest Reverse Spiker with 275 factors and Lyka De Leon received the Finest Libero with 210 factors
Laput and De Leon grew to become La Salle’s first Finest Reverse Spiker and Finest Libero, respectively, because the league shifted to honor the gamers by place in 2019.
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Amie Provido grew to become the most recent Finest Center Blocker after Thea Gagate as she completed with 179 factors in her posion. College of the Philippines star Niña Ytang earned her third straight Finest Center Blocker award with 166 factors.
