PVL Invitational comes off the wraps

MANILA, Philippines — Creamline aims to reassert its mastery over the league it has dominated in recent years amid the sweeping player changes in the Premier Volleyball League as it opens its campaign against a vastly improved Chery Tiggo in the Invitational Conference inaugurals tonight at the Filoil EcoOil Arena.

For the first time in a while, the Cool Smashers, the defending champions and winners of six of the last nine conferences, have added a marquee name in Bernadeth Pons to bolster an already formidable lineup headed by skipper and the resurgent Alyssa Valdez.

Apart from Pons and Valdez, the proud franchise also boasts many-time MVP Tots Carlos, Jia de Guzman, Jema Galanza, Michele Gumabao, Ced Domingo, Kyla Atienza, Jeanette Panaga and Risa Sato. They meet the Crossovers at 6:30 p.m.

The Farm Fresh Foxies, for their part, will make their league debut against the title-contending F2 Logistics Cargo Movers at 1:30 p.m. while the equally fearsome Cignal HD Spikers and Petro Gazz Angels collide at 4 p.m.