BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Is Arnold Van Opstal out of the Green Archers’ lineup?

Is AVO out of the Green Archers’ lineup?
by rick olivares

When the De La Salle Green Archers take to the San Juan Arena on April 18 when the Filoil Flying V Premier Cup tips off, they will be without a familiar face in the middle – Arnold Van Opstal.

In the line-up submitted by third year head coach Juno Sauler, he listed holdovers Matt Salem, Julian Sargent, Jason Perkins, Jeron Teng, Prince Rivero, Thomas Torres, Kib Montalbo, Darryl Pascual and Abu Tratter; transferees Joshua Torralba from Emilio Aguinaldo College as well as Larry Muyang and Renzo Navarro from San Sebastian College; and rookies Jayboy Gob from La Salle Greenhills, Andrei Caracut from San Beda High School, and Jollo Go from Hope Christian High School.  

When I asked DLSU assistant coach Paolo Sauler, he merely said that was the lineup submitted to him.

Van Opstal is currently practicing with Sinag, the junior national team that will compete in a few weeks in the Southeast Asian Basketball Association this April and the Southeast Asian Games in June. Both tournaments will be held in Singapore. He is joined by former teammates Almond Vosotros and Norbert Torres. Curiously, Rivero and Teng are also with Sinag.

The 6’9” Van Opstal, who has one more playing year left, manned the slot for La Salle during its UAAP Season 76 title run. Van Opstal isn’t the only one who isn’t on the Green Archers’ lineup. Guards Robert Bolick moved to San Beda while Terrence Mustre transferred down the block to Adamson.

Posted by Rick Olivares

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 6:38 PM

    Didn't a article in a sports website clarify this? According to the article, it is confirmed that Van Opstal will use his final playing year.

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