MONTHS AFTER the brawl that made headlines all over the country, the NCAA management committee has finally broken its silence and recommended a season-long ban on San Beda Red Lions head coach Frankie Lim and San Sebastian volleyball head coach Roger Gorayeb for their respective roles in the melee that happened on the San Beda campus during the NCAA volleyball tournament.
The recommendation has been forwarded to the other members of the NCAA board and will be reviewed by chairman, Ramon Cercado of Perpetual Help. A decision is expected to be reached early next week.
Lim and Gorayeb engaged in a heated verbal exchange that led to a violent fracas during an NCAA volleyball game at the San Beda gym. Gorayeb and a female San Sebastian volleyball player, Mae Crisostomo, were hurt during the incident.
The veteran volleyball coach was in the middle of the melee, while Crisostomo was hurt after trying to pacify male San Beda basketball players. The incident started after San Beda’s Nigerian center Ole Adeogun heard chants by male San Sebastian volleyball players that he perceived as a racial slur. But the spikers denied the charge, saying they were misheard and that they were only shouting a standard volleyball warm-up chant that was not directed at Adeogun. /Correspondent Jonas Panerio