Published October 12, 2025 4:14pm<\/p>\n
Updated October 12, 2025 4:14pm<\/p>\n
There is no clear timeline yet on the return of Allen Liwag to the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde bench as the reigning MVP continues his recovery from dengue amid their ongoing NCAA Season 101 run.<\/p>\n
Liwag has missed the Blazers’ last two games against Letran and JRU, both of which saw the Taft crew still come out victorious as they pulled off a 95-80 win over the Knights and 73-65 victory against the Heavy Bombers on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He still has a dengue. His platelets are a bit low so I don’t know when he’ll be back. I hope soon. I hope he’ll be there next game, but probably not because he hasn’t really been going up in a few days,” Benilde head coach Charles Tiu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But I think the rest of the guys, hopefully, by Arellano [game], we’ll be complete na. Si Allen lang ang question mark.”<\/p>\n
Despite Liwag’s absence, the rest of the Blazers have been stepping up as they now seized the solo lead in Group B with a 3-1 card, winning their last three games since bowing to San Beda in the opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Against a very dangerous JRU, the Blazers leaned on the tandem of Justine Sanchez and Raffy Celis, who combined for 15 of their 18 fourth quarter points to star in the hard-fought eight-point win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Benilde also outrebounded JRU with 49 rebounds against the 31 of the Heavy Bombers despite missing Liwag, the best defensive player from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it was exactly what Tiu wanted from his team.<\/p>\n
Tiu, though, hope to have Liwag back soon as they take a one-week break before facing Arellano University next Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I keep telling them that everybody says we have a deep team, so we have to go and show it with or without Allen,” Tiu added.<\/p>\n
“We have to find a way to win, it\u2019s just more chances for guys to step up and play and so far, they\u2019ve been rising to the challenge.”<\/p>\n
\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 12, 2025 4:14pm Updated October 12, 2025 4:14pm There is no clear timeline yet on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[123589,402,123590,398,400,84726,401,99],"class_list":["post-218869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-allen-liwag","tag-basketball","tag-benilde-blazers","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-season-101","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}