Eya Laure (left, picture above) chases down each ball within the stretch and comes up massive for Chery Tiggo, ending with 26 factors, together with the game-winning ace. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Eya Laure sees battling seasoned groups as an excellent expertise as Chery Tiggo approaches the tailend of the elimination spherical of the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino convention and the battle for playoff berths heats up.
Veteran groups are what the Crossovers have left on their schedule, and so they simply gave themselves the steam they want after crossing out one other formidable aspect in Cignal on Tuesday, 17-25, 25-19, 21-25, 25-22, 16-14, at PhilSports Enviornment in Pasig Metropolis the place Laure led a dogged comeback.
“We’re nonetheless a younger workforce, studying,” Laure stated after a sterling 26-point night time. “Proper now we’re simply absorbing the great issues we are able to get. We’ll deliver these to our subsequent video games and miss the dangerous issues.”
The Crossovers gained the final two units, claiming their seventh win in eight matches after erasing match level at 14-13 with Laure on the firing finish. Her second ace wrapped up the marathon two-hour and 13-minute match.
It was the fifth straight win for Chery Tiggo, which missed center blocker Imee Hernandez, who has a feared ACL tear and would most definitely be out when the Crossovers shut out towards F2 Logistics on Nov. 25, powerhouse Creamline on Nov. 28 and Choco Mucho on Dec. 2 in Iloilo.
That’s a back-breaking stretch that definitely gained’t make the Crossovers’ journey to the semifinals straightforward.
However with the present success that they’re experiencing—and the best way they’re taking part in—it appears achievable.
“What we’re imparting [to the players] like within the earlier video games is the never-say-die angle. I informed them that till nobody has reached 25 (factors), it’s not over,” stated KungFu Reyes, who is looking the photographs in lieu of head coach Aaron Velez. Cignal’s 5 sport successful streak was additionally halted because the HD Spikers dropped to 6-3.
Chery Tiggo additionally drew 18 factors from Princess Robles, with Mylene Paat and Cza Carandang chipping in with 11 factors every as Jas Nabor had 21 glorious units.
In the meantime, Petro Gazz snapped a protracted shedding streak with a 25-22, 19-25, 25-16, 26-24 win over a hard-fighting Farm Recent aspect to remain mathematically within the hunt to play previous the classification part.
The Angels, although, can be pounded by quite a lot of stress of their final two video games in the event that they hope to maintain their shot at a semifinal berth.
“The stress will at all times be there, so we simply need to be aware of that. We are able to’t say that there isn’t a stress,” coach Timmy Sto. Tomas stated.
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“We now have to acknowledge that and we’ve got to work round that stress. It’s the identical day by day, we’ll carry on working laborious.”Petro Gazz had a 62-49 assault benefit towards the Foxies, who dropped to a 1-8 card. INQ