MANILA, Philippines — Pride and bragging rights will be there for the taking as college basketball’s most compelling rivalry in Ateneo and La Salle get it on one more time tonight at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

The highly-entertaining, but fiercely competitive match dubbed `Blue vs. Green: Dream Game 2012’, is set at 6 p.m., and features a Green Archers side of coach Franz Pumaren and Blue Eagles squad of coach Norman Black both reinforced by current and one-time PBA players.

The two bitter school rivals fought to a 90-90 standoff the last time they fought for a good cause in 2008, although the Eagles put one over the Archers in 2005 when Enrico Villanueva hit the game-winning three-pointer, 88-85, in a match best remembered for the fracas that broke out between Villanueva and Joseph Yeo.

Girl's Volleyball

University of the East and De La Salle-Zobel (DLZ) take on separate rivals today as they kick off their respective campaigns in the Shakey’s Girls Volleyball League NCR leg at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City. The UE and DLZ tossers are two of the fancied bets in the league with the former clashing with the MGC New Life Christian Academy side at 10 a.m. in Pool B action and the latter colliding with equally tough Elizabeth Seton School side at 11 a.m. in Pool A.

Colegio San Agustin (CSA) and St. James College-Malabon (SJM0, meanwhile, clash at 9 a.m. in a duel of opening day losers in Pool B while Rizal High School (RHS) likewise tries to recover lost ground as it tangles with St. James College-Paranaque (SJP) in Pool A at 8 a.m.

Tablenet winners

Walden Ledesma and Gerald Cristobal of Metropolitan Table Tennis

Association (METTA)-La Salle conquered the 2012 Spincity Invitational Tandem Table Tennis Tournament over the weekend at the Spincity Club in San Pedro, Laguna. Ledesma, the son of national player Ting Ledesma, and Cristobal played true to form to outlast Makati’s Rainier Manlapaz and Erwin Reyes, 2-1, in the final round of the one-day event. Ledesma and Cristobal won at least two games in the elimination round to make it to the top eight.

WNCAA champs

Miriam College and Rizal Technological University ran away with three crowns each while San Beda College Alabang bagged two titles in the recent four-event sportsfest of the 42nd WNCAA held at the SBCA grounds.

Miriam retained its midgets and juniors taekwondo titles and unseated De La Salle Zobel in midgets badminton to up its total season haul to four championships, including the junior volleyball plum last year. RTU remained seniors champion in table tennis and taekwondo and ruled swimming to add to its earlier wins in senior volleyball and senior futsal. San Beda likewise kept its midgets and seniors swimming crowns.

Boxing Show

As a tribute to the late super-flyweight boxer Karlo Maquinto, the weekly Rod Nazario’s In This Corner will air one of the memorable bouts in the short career of the fallen fighter from Iloilo tonight over PTV-4.

The six-round match, held last November in Tejeros Convention Center, in Rosario, Cavite, will see Maquinto slugging it out with Zoren Pama. It will be aired from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and presented by Ginebra San Miguel, San Miguel Beer, Purefoods, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), and Petron.

Maquinto, fighting out of Baguio-based Shape Up boxing gym, died last Friday due to cardio-respiratory arrest after lapsing into deep coma following his drawn fight with Mark Joseph Costa just last week.

He was 21, with a ring record of 6-0-1, four by knockouts. The Maquinto-Pama encounter serves as the preliminary to the main bout featuring Vergel Puton against Larry Abarra. The Puton-Abarra match is set for six round in the featherweight class.