Mancom Pushed Season Ban For Lim, Gorayeb

The NCAA management committee has recommended a season-long ban on San Beda basketball coach Frankie Lim and San Sebastian volleyball coach Roger Gorayeb for their respectives roles in a melee at the San Beda campus last year.

A member of the committee told InterAKTV that the recommendation has been passed to other members of the NCAA board and is up for review by chairman Ramon Cercado of Perpetual Help.

The committee member said that there were suggestions Lim and Gorayeb be given lifetime suspensions.

“We don’t have that kind of sanction in our rules and regulations,” said the member. “Recommendations have been made for a season-long ban on them, but certain issues were raised for further review.”

The same committee member said that the decision by the board is “expected to be reached after Valentines Day.”

Lim and Gorayeb engaged in a heated verbal exchange that led to a fracas during an NCAA volleyball game at the San Beda gym.

Gorayeb and a female San Sebastian volleyball player, Mae Crisostomo, were hurt during the incident.

The veteran volleyball coach was in the middle of the melee, while Crisostomo was hurt after trying to pacify male San Beda basketball players.

The incident started after San Beda’s Nigerian center Ole Adeogun heard chants by male San Sebastian volleyball players that he perceived as a racial slur. But the spikers denied the charge, saying they were misheard and that they were only shouting a standard volleyball warm-up chant that was not directed at Adeogun.

source: Interaktv