NU rules BVR women’s side with repeat over Alas girls
SANTA ROSA, Laguna—National University’s Vilmarie Toos and Honey Grace Cordero outlasted Alas 1’s Sunnie Villapando and Gen Eslapor, 21-13, 21-23, 15-11, to capture the women’s title in the Beach Volleyball Republic (BVR) Nuvali Open late Sunday night at Nuvali Sand Courts.
Toos and Cordero completed a perfect 6-0 campaign, including a win over the same Alas pair on opening day, to secure the championship.
Villapando and Eslapor, members of last year’s Southeast Asian Games gold medal team playing together for the first time, forced a deciding set after erasing two attack errors and extending the match with a Villapando kill in the second frame.
But the NU tandem regained control in the third set, building leads of 8-3 and 13-8 before Toos delivered the title-clinching hit.
The victory marked Cordero’s first BVR on Tour title since winning the Sipalay leg in 2023, while both Toos and Cordero claimed their first championship together in the circuit.
In the men’s division, Alas 1’s Ronniel Rosales and Ranran Abdilla also finished undefeated, sweeping Amigo’s Wayne Dionela and Rancel Varga, 21-13, 21-19, to clinch the title.
