2017 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference

The Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Reinforced Open Conference was the first conference of the Premier Volleyball League (28th conference of the former Shakey's V-League). The Conference started on April 30, 2017^[1][2] and concluded on June 13, 2017. All elimination round games were played at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan while the semifinals and Finals games were held at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig.

2017 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference
League	Premier Volleyball League
Sport	Volleyball
Number of teams	Women's: 6 Men's: 6
TV partner(s)	ABS-CBN Sports and Action
Season MVP	W: Alyssa Valdez M: Alnakran Abdilla
Finals champions	W: Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors M: Cignal HD Spikers
Runners-up	W: BaliPure Purest Water Defenders M: Philippine Air Force Air Spikers
Finals MVP	W: Myla Pablo M: Lorenzo Capate Jr.

The women's tournament was supposed to feature the use of foreign reinforcements, however, they were initially unable to play due to difficulty in securing their international transfer certificates (ITC) from the FIVB.^[3][4][5][6] On May 17, 2017, Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. (LVPI) confirmed that the FIVB has approved the ITC requests for the imports.^[7] The imports began to play on May 18, 2017.^[8]

Women's division

Participating teams

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Reinforced Open Conference (Women's Division)
Abbr.	Team	Company	Head coach	Team captain	Import
BLP	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	Balibago Waterworks System, Inc.	Roger Gorayeb	Grethcel Soltones	Jennifer Brooke Keddy Jeng Bualee
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Tai Bundit	Alyssa Valdez	Laura Schaudt Kuttika Kaewpin
PSM	Power Smashers	None	Ernesto Pamilar	Jovielyn Prado	Amporn Hyapha Kannika Thipachot
PAF	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	Philippine Air Force	Jasper Jimenez	Joy Cases	Patcharee Sangmuang
PER	Perlas Spikers	Beach Volleyball Republic	Jerry Yee	Dzi Gervacio	Rupia Inck Naoko Hashimoto
POC	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	Federated Distributors, Inc.	Rommel John Abella	Gyzelle Sy	Edina Selimovic Michelle Strizak Krystal Rivers

Foreign players

Team	Player	Height	Country
Air Force	Patcharee Sangmuang	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	Thailand
BaliPure	Jennifer Brooke Keddy	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	United States
BaliPure	Jaroensri Bualee	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	Thailand
BanKo Perlas	Rupia Inck	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	Brazil
BanKo Perlas	Naoko Hashimoto	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	Japan
Creamline	Kuttika Kaewpin	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)	Thailand
Creamline	Laura Schaudt	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	United States
Pocari Sweat	Edina Selimovic (replaced)	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pocari Sweat	Michelle Strizak	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	United States
Pocari Sweat	Krystal Rivers	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	United States
Power Smashers	Amporn Hyapha	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Thailand
Power Smashers	Kannika Thipachot	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Thailand

Format

• Preliminaries

• Double round robin preliminary
• Top two teams (ranks 1 and 2) after the preliminary round will automatically enter the semifinals round.

• Quarterfinals

• The bottom four teams after the preliminary round will play a single round robin to determine the two teams (as ranks 3 and 4) that will advance to the semifinals round.

• Semifinals

• Teams will compete in a best-of-three series as follows: Rank 1 vs Rank 4 and Rank 2 vs Rank 3.

• Finals

• Best-of-three series for the Final and Bronze matches.

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	10	7	3	21	25	16	1.563	919	876	1.049	Semifinals
2	Power Smashers	10	6	4	17	21	17	1.235	859	843	1.019
3	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	10	6	4	17	21	17	1.235	814	817	0.996
4	Perlas Spikers	10	5	5	16	22	20	1.100	921	925	0.996
5	Creamline Cool Smashers	10	4	6	14	21	22	0.955	944	919	1.027
6	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	10	2	8	5	10	28	0.357	796	873	0.912

Source: ^[9]
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

Match results

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

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Apr 30	15:00	PAF	1–3	BLP	25–21	19–25	19–25	21–25	–	84–96	P2
Apr 30	17:00	PSM	3–0	POC	25–9	25–22	25–21	–	–	75–52	P2
Apr 30	19:00	CCS	1–3	PER	25–23	22–25	19–25	21–25	–	87–98	P2
May 02	16:00	BLP	3–1	PSM	17–25	26–24	25–23	25–22	–	93–94	P2
May 02	18:30	PER	2–3	PAF	24–26	21–25	25–23	25–19	13–15	108–108	P2
May 04	16:00	PAF	0–3	CCS	23–25	16–25	22–25	–	–	61–75	P2
May 04	18:30	BLP	3–0	POC	25–23	25–22	25–14	–	–	75–59	P2
May 06	16:00	PER	3–2	PSM	29–31	24–26	25–19	25–23	21–19	124–118	P2
May 06	18:30	POC	3–0	PAF	25–22	25–14	25–22	–	–	75–58	P2
May 09	16:00	PER	0–3	POC	19–25	19–25	19–25	–	–	57–75	P2
May 09	18:30	PSM	3–2	CCS	25–23	21–25	25–17	20–25	15–13	106–103	P2
May 11	16:00	PAF	0–3	PSM	23–25	20–25	22–25	–	–	65–75	P2
May 11	18:30	CCS	1–3	POC	25–15	18–25	24–26	19–25	–	86–91	P2
May 13	13:00	BLP	2–3	PER	25–22	25–22	22–25	16–25	12–15	100–109	P2
May 13	16:00	POC	3–0	PSM	25–21	25–20	25–16	–	–	75–57	P2
May 13	18:30	PAF	2–3	CCS	21–25	26–28	25–23	25–12	12–15	109–103	P2
May 16	16:00	CCS	1–3	BLP	24–26	25–17	23–25	26–28	–	98–96	P2
May 16	18:30	POC	3–2	PER	25–17	25–17	22–25	18–25	15–3	105–87	P2
May 18	16:00	BLP	2–3	POC	25–18	25–21	24–26	25–27	13–15	112–107	P2
May 18	18:30	PER	3–0	PAF	25–23	26–24	25–13	–	–	76–60	P2
May 20	13:00	PSM	0–3	PER	25–27	24–26	19–25	–	–	68–78	P2
May 20	16:00	PAF	0–3	BLP	17–25	12–25	17–25	–	–	46–75	P2
May 20	18:30	POC	1–3	CCS	25–21	18–25	20–25	13–25	–	76–96	P2
May 21	16:00	PER	2–3	BLP	21–25	23–25	25–16	27–25	10–15	106–106	P2
May 21	18:30	CCS	2–3	PSM	25–17	22–25	18–25	25–18	10–15	100–100	P2
May 23	16:00	PSM	3–1	PAF	25–23	16–25	25–20	25–23	–	91–91	P2
May 23	18:30	BLP	3–2	CCS	20–25	25–19	19–25	25–18	15–7	104–94	P2
May 25	13:00	PAF	3–2	POC	25–19	24–26	25–27	25–21	15–6	114–99	P2
May 25	16:00	PSM	3–0	BLP	25–20	25–23	25–19	–	–	75–62	P2
May 25	18:30	CCS	3–1	PER	25–19	25–20	23–25	25–14	–	98–78	P2

Quarterfinals

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3	3	0	7	9	4	2.250	284	260	1.092	Semifinals
2	Creamline Cool Smashers	3	2	1	6	8	5	1.600	272	253	1.075
3	Perlas Spikers	3	1	2	3	5	8	0.625	265	263	1.008
4	Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers	3	0	3	2	4	9	0.444	251	296	0.848

Source: ^[9]
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

Match results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
May 27	16:00	POC	3–2	PAF	21–25	25–23	19–25	25–14	15–10	105–97	P2
May 27	18:30	PER	2–3	CCS	16–25	25–9	25–17	13–25	13–15	92–91	P2
May 30	16:00	CCS	2–3	POC	23–25	21–25	25–21	25–18	11–15	105–104	P2
May 30	18:30	PAF	2–3	PER	26–24	15–25	28–26	20–25	8–15	97–115	P2
Jun 01	16:00	CCS	3–0	PAF	25–16	26–24	25–17	–	–	76–57	P2
Jun 01	18:30	POC	3–0	PER	25–23	25–15	25–18	–	–	75–56	P2

Semifinals

• All series are best-of-3

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	3	2	3
	4	Creamline Cool Smashers	1	3	0
									BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	1	3	1
									Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3	2	3
	2	Power Smashers	2	3	0
	3	Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors	3	2	3			3rd place
									Creamline Cool Smashers	3	3	–
									Power Smashers	0	1	–

Rank 1 vs Rank 4

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 03	16:00	BLP	3–1	CCS	22–25	25–23	25–14	25–21	–	97–83	P2
Jun 06	18:30	CCS	3–2	BLP	24–26	25–18	18–25	25–16	16–14	108–99	P2
Jun 08	16:00	BLP	3–0	CCS	25–18	25–13	25–16	–	–	75–47	P2

Rank 2 vs Rank 3

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 03	18:30	PSM	2–3	POC	23–25	19–25	25–23	25–22	12–15	104–110	P2
Jun 06	16:00	POC	2–3	PSM	26–24	25–22	18–25	23–25	13–15	105–111	P2
Jun 08	18:30	PSM	0–3	POC	19–25	22–25	21–25	–	–	62–75	P2

Finals

3rd Place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 10	16:00	CCS	3–0	PSM	25–20	25–18	25–15	–	–	75–53	P2
Jun 13	16:00	PSM	1–3	CCS	20–25	11–25	25–20	19–25	–	75–95	P2

Championship

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 10	18:30	BLP	1–3	POC	25–22	22–25	22–25	24–26	–	93–98	P2
Jun 13	18:30	POC	2–3	BLP	15–25	24–26	26–24	26–24	13–15	104–114	P2
Jun 15	18:30	BLP	1–3	POC	25–20	17–25	17–25	19–25	–	78–95	P2

2017 PVL Reinforced Open Conference Women's Division champions
Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors

Team roster

Shola Alvarez, Jessey de Leon, Michelle Strizak (I), Melissa Gohing, Sarah Espelita, Jeanette Panaga, Maricar Nepomuceno, Elaine Kasilag, Gyzelle Sy (c), Krystal Rivers (I), Edina Sellimovic (I), Fille Cainglet-Cayetano, Desiree Dadang, Gayle Valdez, Myla Pablo

Head coach

Rommel Abella

Men's division

Participating teams

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Reinforced Open Conference (Men's Division)
Abbr.	Team	Company	Head coach	Team captain
CLS	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	Cafe Lupe Hostel & Restaurantbox	John Patrick de Guzman	Ralph Ocampo (Mapúa)
CIG	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Oliver Allan Almadro	Ysay Marasigan (Ateneo)
IEM	IEM Volley Masters	Instituto Estetico Manila	Ernesto Balubar	Rence Ordoñez (Letran)
PAF	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	Philippine Air Force	Rhovyl Verayo	Jessie Lopez (FEU)
PAR	Philippine Army Troopers	Philippine Army	Rico de Guzman	Benjaylo Labide (FEU)
STE	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	Sta. Elena Construction and Development Corporation	Arnold Laniog	Jan Berlin Paglinawan (NU)

Format

• Preliminaries

• Single round robin preliminary

• Semifinals

• Top four teams after the preliminary round will enter the semifinals round.
• Teams will compete in a best-of-three series as follows: Rank 1 vs Rank 4 and Rank 2 vs Rank 3.

• Finals

• Best-of-three series for the Final and Bronze matches.

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	5	4	1	12	12	3	4.000	367	332	1.105	Semifinals
2	Cignal HD Spikers	5	4	1	11	12	7	1.714	444	388	1.144
3	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	5	3	2	8	11	8	1.375	431	403	1.069
4	IEM Volley Masters	5	2	3	7	8	10	0.800	401	407	0.985	Fourth-seed playoff
5	Philippine Army Troopers	5	2	3	6	8	11	0.727	397	424	0.936
6	Cafe Lupe Sunrisers	5	0	5	1	3	15	0.200	343	429	0.800

Source: ^[9]
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

Match results

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

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Apr 30	10:00	PAR	3–2	IEM	25–19	23–25	20–25	25–21	16–14	109–104	P2
May 02	13:00	STE	3–2	CLS	21–25	20–25	25–14	25–18	15–12	106–94	P2
May 04	10:00	PAF	0–3	STE	18–25	20–25	22–25	–	–	60–75	P2
May 04	13:00	IEM	0–3	CIG	19–25	16–25	22–25	–	–	57–75	P2
May 06	09:00	CLS	0–3	PAR	20–25	18–25	19–25	–	–	57–75
May 09	13:00	CIG	3–1	CLS	23–25	25–19	25–16	25–23	–	98–83
May 11	13:00	STE	1–3	IEM	25–22	23–25	26–28	22–25	–	96–100	P2
May 13	13:00	IEM	0–3	PAF	23–25	22–25	20–25	–	–	65–75	P2
May 16	13:00	PAR	2–3	CIG	27–25	12–25	25–21	17–25	8–15	89–111	P2
May 18	13:00	PAF	3–0	PAR	25–22	25–20	27–25	–	–	77–67	P2
May 20	10:00	CIG	0–3	PAF	28–30	19–25	21–25	–	–	68–80	P2
May 23	13:00	CLS	0–3	IEM	14–25	17–25	21–25	–	–	52–75	P2
May 25	10:00	PAF	3–0	CLS	25–16	25–22	25–19	–	–	75–57
May 27	13:00	STE	3–0	PAR	25–17	25–19	25–21	–	–	75–57	P2
May 30	13:00	CIG	3–1	STE	25–14	17–25	25–19	25–21	–	92–79	P2

Fourth-seed playoff

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 01	13:00	PAR	3–1	IEM	25–16	21–25	25–15	25–23	–	96–79	P2

• Philippine Army Troopers advances to the semifinals round.

Semifinals

• Ranking is based from the preliminary round.

• All series are best-of-3

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	1	3	3
	4	Philippine Army Troopers	3	0	2
									Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	1	2	–
									Cignal HD Spikers	3	3	–
	2	Cignal HD Spikers	1	3	3
	3	Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	3	0	1			3rd place
									Philippine Army Troopers	1	3	–
									Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls	3	0	–

Rank 1 vs Rank 4

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 03	10:00	PAF	1–3	PAR	23–25	22–25	25–21	20–25	–	90–96	P2
Jun 06	13:00	PAR	0–3	PAF	17–25	18–25	20–25	–	–	55–75	P2
Jun 08	10:00	PAF	3–2	PAR	24–26	21–25	25–20	25–21	15–9	110–101	P2

Rank 2 vs Rank 3

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 03	13:00	CIG	1–3	STE	20–25	26–24	22–25	28–30	–	96–104	P2
Jun 06	10:00	STE	0–3	CIG	17–25	19–25	22–25	–	–	58–75	P2
Jun 08	13:00	CIG	3–1	STE	27–25	24–26	25–18	26–24	–	102–93	P2

Finals

3rd Place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 10	10:00	PAR	1–3	STE	25–18	23–25	22–25	18–25	–	88–93	P2
Jun 13	10:00	STE	0–3	PAR	24–26	18–25	19–25	–	–	61–76	P2

Championship

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jun 10	13:00	PAF	1–3	CIG	25–18	22–25	16–25	19–25	–	82–93	P2
Jun 13	12:00	CIG	3–2	PAF	17–25	27–25	27–25	16–25	15–10	102–110	P2

2017 PVL Reinforced Open Conference Men's Division champions
Cignal HD Spikers

Team roster

Sandy Montero, Joshua Villanueva, Ralph Diezmo, Bonjomar Castel, Edmar Bonono, Lorenzo Capate Jr., Rex Intal, Ysay Marasigan (c), Vince Mangulabnan, Mark Gil Alfafara, Peter Torres, Alexis Faytaren, Herschel Ramos

Head coach

Oliver Almadro

Awards

Award		Women's [10]	Men's [11]
MVP	Finals: Conference:	Myla Pablo (Pocari Sweat) Alyssa Valdez (Creamline)	Lorenzo Capate Jr. (Cignal) Alnakran Abdilla (Air Force)
Best Setter		Jasmine Nabor (BaliPure)	Vincent Raphael Mangulabnan (Cignal)
Best Outside Spiker	1st: 2nd:	Alyssa Valdez (Creamline) Grethcel Soltones (BaliPure)	Mark Gil Alfafara (Cignal) Fauzi Ismail (Air Force)
Best Middle Blocker	1st: 2nd:	Risa Sato (BaliPure) Jeanette Panaga (Pocari Sweat)	Jayvee Sumagaysay (Army) Gregorio Dolor (IEM)
Best Opposite Spiker		Mary Dominique Pacres (Power Smashers)	Edward Camposano (Sta. Elena)
Best Libero		Melissa Gohing (Pocari Sweat)	Rence Melgar (IEM)
Best Import		Michelle Strizak (Pocari Sweat)	—

Final standings

Rank Women's Men's Pocari Sweat Lady Warriors Cignal HD Spikers BaliPure Purest Water Defenders Philippine Air Force Air Spikers Creamline Cool Smashers Philippine Army Troopers 4 Power Smashers Sta. Elena Wrecking Balls 5 Perlas Spikers IEM Volley Masters 6 Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers Cafe Lupe Sunrisers

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