Six-time senior defending champion Centro Escolar University and reigning junior titlist Chiang Kai Shek College won their opening assignments, but De La Salle Zobel, eyeing an eighth consecutive midgets crown, fell in the 48th Women’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (WNCAA).
CEU walloped league rookie University of Makati, 79-34, on Saturday at the Philsports Arena in Pasig, while CKSC trounced St. Scholastica’s College, 106-45, the following day at Assumption Makati gym.
St. Paul College Pasig, meanwhile, stunned DLSZ, 57-55, also on Saturday.
Also winning their opening junior matches were San Beda College Alabang against St. Stephen’s High School, 63-32; St. Paul over Angelicum College, 70-53; Saint Jude Catholic School against host Poveda College, 45-32; DLSZ against Miriam College, 95-41; and La Salle College Antipolo over Assumption College, 98-20.
Miriam joined St. Paul on top of the midgets leaderboard after dominating Saint Jude, 73-24.