St. Benilde mounts title drive in WNCAA today

St. Benilde launches its title-retention bid today when it goes up against Lyceum at the start of the 33rd WNCAA-Adidas season with the basketball competition at the Philsports Arena.

The Blazers, also last year’s overall champions in the collegiate division, meet the Lady Pirates in the featured seniors match at 1 p.m.

The 33rd WNCAA-Adidas, the country’s first and only existing tri-level league, will carry the theme "Kababaihan Kaakbay Tungo sa Paghubog ng Sambayanan." Assumption College, last year’s high school division champion, is this year’s host.

Opening-day hostilities begin at 10 a.m. with the presentation of the 2002-2003 WNCAA-Adidas executive board led by five-time president Vivian Manila of St. Scholastica’s College.