The room, through a triumph of a bitter rival, the hours before Wednesday, obtained a ticket for the Final Four of the UAAP women’s volleyball display case.
And the Lady Spikers made sure that involuntary help from the University of Santo Tomas would not waste, eliminating a victory of 25-19, 21-25, 22-25, 25-18, 15-4 on Adamson University while they and the growled tigresses remained alive for hunting for the second semi-final premium.
Santo Tomas was easier, ensuring that the University of the Philippines was not so dangerous in a bombing of 25-20, 25-21, 25-18 earlier, before the room catches up to 9-4, which would make the most crucial weekends this day of season 87.
The room was to dig deeply before repelling the super recruit Shaina Nitura and the Lady Falcons. Subsequently, the striker of Superstar Angel Canino had only beautiful words for whom could be his apparent heir.
“This kid is so qualified. She is so unstoppable,” Canino in Philippin said on the heels of a 21-point double-double and 23 receptions that fueled the Lady Spikers fight at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. “But at the same time, our preparations included the stop. We are happy that our fourth and fifth blocking blocking has worked. ”
“As disappointing as it is that we had to do it in five sets, it just shows our grain and our desire to win,” added Shevana Laput, who collected 21 points for the room.
It was a completely different story for the tigresses, which faced a team that has experienced one of its longest victories sequences in years before eliminating the combat chestnuts from the semi-final.
“We have achieved what we have targeted from the first day, which we clearly specified during the press (pre-season) Con: arriving in the Final Four,” said Santo Tomas head coach Kungfu Reyes, in Philippin.
Solid net defense
The most beautiful recruit of last season, Angge Poyos, showed the way with 19 points which spent nine excavations and five receptions. Em Banagua achieved a performance to remember against the best blocking team of the tournament, with eight refusal for banner La Défense de Santo Tomas Net.
“You can’t go to the final without going to the Final Four,” he continued. “We are on the right track, and that’s where the real version begins.”
This version begins on Sunday in a gigantic duel with the champion in national reigning U, because another victory could give the tigresses at least one eliminatory series for n ° 2 and the second privilege of twice compared to the Final Four.
The room, on the other hand, will come up against the Far Oriental U on Saturday in another match with high issues, because the Lady Tamaraws also seek to close with a victory and perhaps avoid finishing fourth which would require a confrontation with the Lady Bulldogs and to beat them twice in the semi-finals.
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“This is what we are going to do: stick to the plan, take up the rigid area and execute everything we have prepared,” said Reyes about the Sunday Mammoth with the Lady Bulldogs 11-2.
The veteran Detdet Pepito anchored the back line of the UST with 23 excavations and eight receptions, while Regu Jurado represented 13 attacks, with Mabeth Hilongo shredding in six of his own points with 15 receptions.
