2017 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference

The 2017 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference was the second conference of the Premier Volleyball League and the 2017 season. The conference started on July 1, 2017^[1] at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan. The tournament will have four new teams; two in the women's division (Adamson Lady Falcons and UP Fighting Lady Maroons)^[2] and two in the men's division (Megabuilders and Gamboa Coffee).^[3]

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Open Conference
League	Premier Volleyball League
Sport	Volleyball
Number of teams	Women's: 8 Men's: 8
TV partner(s)	ABS-CBN Sports and Action
Season MVP	W: Myla Pablo M: Lorenzo Capate Jr.
Finals champions	W: BaliPure M: Cignal
Runners-up	W: Pocari M: Megabuilders
Finals MVP	W: Grethcel Soltones M: Lorenzo Capate Jr.

Women's division

Participating teams

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Open Conference (Women's Division)
Abbr.	Team	Company	Head coach	Team captain
ADU	Adamson-Akari Lady Falcons	Adamson University	Airess Padda	Jema Galanza
BLP	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	Balibago Waterworks System, Inc.	Roger Gorayeb	Jasmine Nabor
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Tai Bundit	Alyssa Valdez
PAF	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	Hair Fairy Dry Shampoo-PAF	Jasper Jimenez	Joy Gazelle Cases
PER	BanKo Perlas Spikers	BPI Globe BanKo / BVR	Matinai Muhammad	Sue Roces
POC	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	Federated Distributors, Inc.	Rico De Guzman	Gyzelle Sy
PSM	Power Smashers	Bristol	Ernesto Pamilar	Jovie Prado
UPD	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	University of the Philippines	Jerry Yee	Tots Carlos

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Creamline Cool Smashers	7	7	0	20	21	7	3.000	669	593	1.128	Semifinals
2	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	7	5	2	14	16	10	1.600	596	564	1.057
3	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	7	5	2	13	16	11	1.455	588	598	0.983
4	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	7	4	3	13	17	12	1.417	646	620	1.042
5	BanKo Perlas Spikers	7	3	4	9	14	16	0.875	683	658	1.038
6	UP Lady Maroons	7	2	5	6	10	18	0.556	614	631	0.973
7	Power Smashers	7	1	6	6	12	20	0.600	654	707	0.925
8	Adamson Lady Falcons	7	1	6	3	7	19	0.368	539	618	0.872

Source: ^[4]
Rules for classification: 3 points = win match in 3 or 4 sets; 2 points = win match in 5 sets; 1 point = lose match in 5 sets; 0 point = lose match in 3 or 4 sets

• All times are in Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 01	16:00	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–1	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	25–17	18–25	25–15	25–22	–	93–79	P–2
Jul 01	18:30	BanKo Perlas Spikers	1–3	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	23–25	25–9	20–25	20–25	–	88–84	P–2
Jul 02	16:00	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	1–3	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	25–21	20–25	18–25	21–25	–	84–96	P–2
Jul 02	18:30	Power Smashers	2–3	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	15–25	25–22	25–20	19–25	6–15	90–107	P–2
Jul 05	16:00	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3–1	BanKo Perlas Spikers	25–21	22–25	25–19	28–26	–	100–91	P–2
Jul 05	18:30	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	1–3	Creamline Cool Smashers	19–25	30–28	19–25	29–31	–	97–109	P–2a
Jul 08	16:00	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	0–3	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	23–25	21–25	23–25	–	–	67–75	P–2
Jul 08	18:30	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3–2	Power Smashers	25–19	25–21	23–25	20–25	15–11	108–101	P–2
Jul 09	16:00	BanKo Perlas Spikers	3–1	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	25–18	25–16	21–25	25–21	–	96–80	P–2
Jul 09	18:30	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–1	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	25–19	25–22	22–25	25–12	–	97–78	P–2
Jul 12	16:00	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	3–0	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	29–27	25–16	25–22	–	–	79–65	P–2
Jul 12	18:30	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	3–1	Power Smashers	25–20	24–26	25–19	25–22	–	99–87	P–2
Jul 15	16:00	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	1–3	Creamline Cool Smashers	15–25	25–17	19–25	19–25	–	78–92	P–2
Jul 15	18:30	Power Smashers	3–2	BanKo Perlas Spikers	25–22	16–25	26–24	23–25	15–12	105–108	P–2
Jul 16	16:00	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	3–2	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	23–25	25–21	25–19	18–25	15–11	106–101	P–2
Jul 16	18:30	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	3–1	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	23–25	25–20	25–13	25–22	–	98–80	P–2 b
Jul 19	16:00	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–0	Power Smashers	25–22	25–21	25–22	–	–	75–65	P–2
Jul 19	18:30	BanKo Perlas Spikers	3–1	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	30–28	21–25	25–21	25–18	–	101–92	P–2
Jul 22	16:00	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	2–3	BanKo Perlas Spikers	26–24	25–13	13–25	22–25	11–15	97–102	P–2
Jul 22	18:30	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	2–3	Creamline Cool Smashers	25–19	25–18	18–25	17–25	14–16	99–103	P–2
Jul 23	16:00	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	3–2	Power Smashers	25–22	26–24	18–25	17–25	15–13	101–109	P–2
Jul 23	18:30	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	0–3	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	23–25	14–25	19–25	–	–	56–75	P–2 c
Jul 26	16:00	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3–1	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	25–18	25–23	19–25	25–20	–	94–86	P–2
Jul 26	18:30	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3–0	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	25–19	25–20	29–27	–	–	79–66	P–2
Jul 29	16:00	Power Smashers	2–3	UP Fighting Lady Maroons	17–25	25–21	25–23	19–25	11–15	97–109	P–2
Jul 29	18:30	Adamson–Akari Lady Falcons	0–3	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	22–25	16–25	21–25	–	–	59–75	P–2
Jul 30	16:00	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–1	BanKo Perlas Spikers	21–25	25–22	26–24	28–26	–	100–97	P–2
Jul 30	18:30	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3–0	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	25–21	25–16	25–23	–	–	75–60	P–2 d

Final round

• All series are best-of-3

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Creamline Cool Smashers	3	2	0
	4	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	2	3	3
									BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3	3
									Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	0	1
	2	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	0	3	3
	3	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	3	2	2			3rd place
									Creamline Cool Smashers	3	3
									Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	0	1

Semifinals

Rank 1 vs Rank 4

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 05	16:00	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–2	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	25–19	13–25	28–26	18–25	15–7	99–102	P–2
Aug 06	18:30	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3–2	Creamline Cool Smashers	25–19	19–25	25–16	18–25	15–13	102–98	P–2
Aug 09	18:30	Creamline Cool Smashers	0–3	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	22–25	25–27	23–25	–	–	70–77	P–2

Rank 2 vs Rank 3

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 05	18:30	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	0–3	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	20–25	19–25	21–25	–	–	60–75	P–2
Aug 06	16:00	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	2–3	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	22–25	25–16	25–23	21–25	12–15	105–104	P–2
Aug 09	16:00	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3–2	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	16–25	20–25	25–23	25–19	15–10	101–102	P–2

Finals

3rd Place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 12	16:00	Creamline Cool Smashers	3–0	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	25–16	25–21	25–19	–	–	75–56	P–2
Aug 16	16:00	Hair Fairy Air Force Jet Spikers	1–3	Creamline Cool Smashers	25–18	24–26	17–25	16–25	–	82–94	P–2

Championship

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 12	18:30	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3–0	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	25–22	25–19	25–22	–	–	75–63	P–2
Aug 16	18:30	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	1–3	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	20–25	25–19	23–25	24–26	–	92–95	P–2

Open Conference Women's Division Champions
BaliPure Purest Water Defenders Jasmine Nabor (c), Grethcel Soltones, Abigail Noval, Lizlee Ann Gata-Pantone, Maria Angelica Cayuna, Aiko Sweet Urdas, Macy Mendiola, Risa Sato, Iris Oliveros, Jorelle Singh, Jerrili Malabanan, Alyssa Eroa Head Coach: Roger Gorayeb

Philips Gold–PVL Press Corps Player of the Week
Week	Player	Reference
July 8–15, 2017	Alyssa Valdez (Creamline)	[5]
July 19–23, 2017	Kathy Bersola (Perlas)	[6]
July 26–30, 2017	Jerrili Malabanan (BaliPure)	[7]
August 2–6, 2017	Myla Pablo (Pocari)	[8]

Men's division

Participating teams

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Open Conference (Men's Division)
Abbr.	Team	Company	Head coach	Team captain
CIG	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Oliver Almadro	Ysay Marasigan
CLS	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	Cafe Lupe Hostel & Restaurant	Rodrigo Palmero	Ralph Ocampo
GCM	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	Universal Knowledge DermPharma, Inc.	Mario Mia	Sam Damian
IEM	IEM Volley Masters	Instituto Estetico Manila	Renz Ordoñez	Eden Canlas
MEG	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	One Mega Builders Construction Corporation	Dante Alinsunurin	Francis Saura
PAF	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	Philippine Air Force	Rhovyl Verayo	Jessie Lopez
PAR	Philippine Army Troopers	Philippine Army	Rico de Guzman	Benjaylo Labide
STE	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	Sta. Elena Construction and Development Corporation	Arnold Laniog	Jan Berlin Paglinawan

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cignal HD Spikers	7	6	1	18	18	4	4.500	536	441	1.215	Semifinals
2	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	7	6	1	18	20	5	4.000	593	504	1.177
3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	7	5	2	13	17	13	1.308	672	624	1.077
4	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	7	4	3	13	15	11	1.364	588	568	1.035	Fourth-seed playoff
5	Philippine Army Troopers	7	4	3	11	15	13	1.154	618	607	1.018
6	IEM Volley Masters	7	2	5	8	10	15	0.667	534	551	0.969
7	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	7	1	6	3	3	19	0.158	409	546	0.749
8	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	7	0	7	0	3	21	0.143	469	588	0.798

Source: ^[4]
Rules for classification: 3 points = win match in 3 or 4 sets; 2 points = win match in 5 sets; 1 point = lose match in 5 sets; 0 point = lose match in 3 or 4 sets

• All times are in Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 01	10:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3–0	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	25–19	25–10	28–26	–	–	78–55	P–2
Jul 01	13:00	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3–2	Philippine Army Troopers	25–22	19–25	23–25	25–22	20–18	112–112	P–2
Jul 02	10:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	25–19	25–18	25–13	–	–	75–50	P–2
Jul 02	13:00	IEM Volley Masters	0–3	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	16–25	20–25	21–25	–	–	57–75	P–2
Jul 05	10:00	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	0–3	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	17–25	20–25	13–25	–	–	50–75	P–2
Jul 05	13:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	2–3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	25–23	20–25	19–25	25–21	10–15	99–109	P–2
Jul 08	10:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–1	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	25–22	21–25	25–23	25–20	–	96–90	P–2
Jul 08	13:00	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	0–3	IEM Volley Masters	18–25	25–27	19–25	–	–	62–77	P–2
Jul 09	10:00	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3–0	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	25–23	25–11	25–16	–	–	75–50	P–2
Jul 09	13:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	2–3	Philippine Army Troopers	20–25	25–23	25–17	22–25	14–16	106–106	P–2
Jul 12	10:00	Philippine Army Troopers	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	20–25	19–25	17–25	–	–	56–75	P–2
Jul 12	13:00	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	0–3	IEM Volley Masters	22–25	17–25	13–25	–	–	52–75	P–2
Jul 15	10:00	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	1–3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	26–24	18–25	15–25	20–25	–	79–99	P–2
Jul 15	13:00	IEM Volley Masters	0–3	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	14–25	20–25	19–25	–	–	53–75	P–2
Jul 16	10:00	Philippine Army Troopers	1–3	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	15–25	25–22	21–25	23–25	–	84–97	P–2
Jul 16	13:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	25–11	25–15	25–18	–	–	75–44	Report
Jul 19	10:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3–2	IEM Volley Masters	13–25	23–25	25–20	25–22	16–14	102–106	Report
Jul 19	13:00	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3–0	Cignal HD Spikers	26–24	26–24	25–17	–	–	77–65	Report
Jul 22	10:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	0–3	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	20–25	20–25	20–25	–	–	60–75	P–2
Jul 22	13:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	25–20	25–21	25–23	–	–	75–64	Report
Jul 23	10:00	Philippine Army Troopers	3–2	IEM Volley Masters	25–23	24–26	25–21	21–25	15–11	110–106	Report
Jul 23	13:00	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	3–1	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	25–21	25–22	18–25	27–25	–	95–93	Report
Jul 26	10:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	3–0	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	25–19	25–16	25–20	–	–	75–55	Report
Jul 26	13:00	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	0–3	Philippine Army Troopers	16–25	20–25	17–25	–	–	53–75	Report
Jul 29	10:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3–2	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	25–18	25–20	23–25	26–28	15–13	114–104	Report
Jul 29	13:00	Gamboa Coffee Spikers	0–3	Philippine Army Troopers	21–25	18–25	19–25	–	–	58–75	Report
Jul 30	10:00	IEM Volley Masters	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	18–25	19–25	23–25	–	–	60–75	Report
Jul 30	13:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	3–1	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	17–25	25–20	25–15	25–22	–	92–82	Report

Fourth-seed playoff

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 02	13:00	Philippine Army Troopers	0–3	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	17–25	19–25	27–29	–	–	63–79	Report

• Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls advances to the semifinals round.

Final round

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Cignal HD Spikers	3	3
	4	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	1	0
									Cignal HD Spikers	3	2	3
									Megabuilders Volley Bolts	1	3	1
	2	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3	3
	3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	2	0				3rd place
									Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3	2	3
									Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	1	3	0

Semifinals

Rank 1 vs Rank 4

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 05	13:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–1	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	25–16	25–16	20–25	25–18	–	95–75	P–2
Aug 06	10:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	21–25	18–25	20–25	–	–	59–75	P–2

Rank 2 vs Rank 3

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 05	10:00	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3–2	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	19–25	16–25	25–20	26–24	15–10	101–104	P–2
Aug 06	13:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	0–3	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	23–25	22–25	24–26	–	–	69–76	P–2

Finals

3rd Place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 09	10:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3–1	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	25–22	25–22	23–25	25–16	–	98–85	Report
Aug 12	10:00	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	3–2	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	27–25	22–25	18–25	25–19	16–12	108–106	P–2
Aug 16	10:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	3–0	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	25–22	25–20	25–23	–	–	75–65	Report

Championship

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Aug 09	13:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–1	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	25–23	21–25	25–19	25–17	–	96–84	Report
Aug 12	13:00	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	3–2	Cignal HD Spikers	18–25	25–23	26–24	22–25	15–13	106–110	P–2
Aug 16	13:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–1	Megabuilders Volley Bolts	25–23	25–17	22–25	25–22	–	97–87	Report

Open Conference Men's Division Champions
Cignal HD Spikers Ysay Marasigan (c), Sandy Montero, Josh Villanueva, Ralph Diezmo, Bonjomar Castel, Edmar Bonono, Lorenzo Capate Jr., Rex Intal, Vince Mangulabnan, Mark Gil Alfafara, Peter Torres, Alexis Faytaren, Herschel Ramos Head coach: Oliver Almadro

Awards

Award		Women's	Men's
MVP	Finals: Conference:	Grethcel Soltones (BaliPure) Myla Pablo (Pocari) [9]	Lorenzo Capate Jr. (Cignal; both awards)[10]
Best Setter		Jia Morado (Creamline)	Vincent Mangulabnan (Cignal)
Best Outside Spiker	1st: 2nd:	Myla Pablo (Pocari) Grethcel Soltones (BaliPure)	Edwin Tolentino (Air Force) Isaah Arda (Sta. Elena)
Best Middle Blocker	1st: 2nd:	Jeanette Panaga (Pocari) Risa Sato (BaliPure)	Kim Malabunga (Megabuilders) Francis Saura (Megabuilders)
Best Opposite Spiker		Iari Yongco (Air Force)	Berlin Panglinawan (Sta. Elena)
Best Libero		Melissa Gohing (Pocari)	Sandy Domenick Montero (Cignal)

Final standings

Rank	Women's	Men's
	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	Cignal HD Spikers
	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	Megabuilders Volley Bolts
	Creamline Cool Smashers	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers
4	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls
5	BanKo Perlas Spikers	Philippine Army Troopers
6	UP Lady Maroons	IEM Volley Masters
7	Power Smashers	Gamboa Coffee Spikers
8	Adamson Lady Falcons	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers