War Is Coming At MOA Arena

The much awaited first round matchup between NCAA's biggest rivals - San Beda College and Colegio de San Juan de Letran - will happen on the 24th of August to be held at the state-of-the-art SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

The clash, which falls on a Saturday will end the first round of action in Men’s Basketball. As of this writing, the Letran Knights are still undefeated with a 7-0 mark while the Red Lions are at solo second with a 7-1 mark. Letran still has to face the dangerous Perpetual Help Altas on August 15 before facing four-peat seeking San Beda.

A tweet on the social network site Twitter from Fr. Vic Calvo of Letran confirmed the news. ” @victor88calvo — LCvsSBCaug24venueMOA5pm…”

The time of the said match was moved to 6pm.

Due to the demand of supporters from the two schools, the NCAA decided to move the venue of the game to a bigger venue. The game would have been played at the regular venue at the Filoil Flying V Arena.

In a text message from NCAA Season 89 Mancom Chairman Dax Castellano, he also confirmed that the venue for the August 24 games will be at the Mall of Asia Arena.

In the final memo given out by the NCAA Management today, August 14, the schedules for the last two days of the first round of eliminations will be as follows:

August 22, 2013 Thursday at San Juan Arena

4:00 pm — Mapua vs. EAC (Juniors)

6:00 pm — Mapua vs. EAC (Seniors)

August 24, 2013 Saturday at the SM MALL OF ASIA ARENA, Pasay

12nn — Arellano vs. JRU (Juniors)

2pm — San Beda vs. Letran (Juniors)

4pm — Arellano vs. JRU (Seniors)

6pm — San Beda vs. Letran (Seniors)

source: NCAA.org.ph