By Jerome Lagunzad
Games Today
(Bacoor Sports Center)
4:15 p.m. – Sta. Lucia vs Generika-Ayala
7 p.m. – Cocolife vs Cignal
Friends will turn into foes tonight as spiker Honey Royse Tubino leads Cocolife’s bid against her former team Cignal in the 2018 Chooks to Go-Philippine Superliga (PSL) Grand Prix at the Bacoor Sports Center.
After teaming up with Jovelyn Gonzaga and Rachel Anne Daquis in powering the HD Spikers to the Invitational Conference title last year, Tubino packed her bags in the off-season to join some familiar faces at the Asset Managers’ camp.
Assistant coach Kungfu Reyes and former Philippine Army teammates like Nerissa Bautista, Jane Gonzales, Mary Jean Balse-Pabayo and the returning Tina Salak have welcomed Tubino with open arms, giving Cocolife some firepower.
But new mentor, Serbian Moro Branislav, is tempering the expectations on the Asset Managers side bolstered by American Taylor Milton and Serbian Sara Klisura, the league’s record-holder in scoring after erupting for 41 points for Foton in the Grand Prix last year.
“All teams have also upgraded their respective rosters so it’s going to be very tough for us,” he said. “We just have to prepare hard and be ready. This Grand Prix, for my opinion, will never be easy. This is going to be a war.”
