IBC-13 airs NCAA cheerleading competition live

Saturday, March 9, 2013 · 10:41 am

The Altas Perps Squad of the University of Perpetual Help System Dalta seeks to defend its title at the NCAA Cheerleading Competition Saturday at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

The event will be broadcast live on IBC-13 starting at 4PM.

The exciting cheerleading competition concludes the successful 88th Season of the NCAA which joined forces with IBC-13 at the beginning of the season.

“We are thankful to the NCAA for partnering with us. The league brought audiences thrilling sports action not just in basketball but also in other sports. If our viewers think this season was action-packed enough, they should watch out for what’s in store for them next season,” Sports5 manager Vitto Lazatin said.

The Altas Perps Squad is eyeing a four-peat of the competition and a historic seventh title in the past decade. The Las Pinas-based school has been dominating the competition for the past decade.

“For sure, every team naghahanda for us. But we’ll do our best to defend our title and whatever happens, may the best team win,” JR Sison, Perps Squad team captain said.

Hoping to dethrone them are the Mapua Cheerping Cardinals, who have been runner-up in the past two stagings of the competition.

The other teams participating in this annual event are the: CSB Pep Squad, San Beda Red Corps, Golden Stags Cheerleading Squad, EAC Generals Pep Squad, Arellano University Chiefs Squad, LPU Pirates Pep Squad, JRU Bombers Pep Squad and from 88th Season host school, the Letran Cheerleading Team All Stars.

IBC-13 whose tagline Where the Action Is!, is the number 3 network in the Philippines where the NCAA games are shown. It also airs various sports programs like the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), National Basketball Association (NBA) and United Football League (UFL).