The Tigresses have a good time a hard-earned win over the Girl Maroons. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Adamson and College of Santo Tomas took the lengthy highway to shut out their elimination spherical schedules with victories in Season 85 of the UAAP ladies’s volleyball match.
And it’s about to get tougher for each the Girl Falcons and Growling Tigresses of their respective quests transferring ahead.
Adamson downed Far Jap College, 25-22, 28-26, 25-15, 25-17, on Sunday to seal No. 3 rating, earlier than Santo Tomas carved out a 25-21, 25-20, 22-25, 19-25, 15-6 victory over the College of the Philippines as each take successful emotions forward of the Remaining 4 that begins on Wednesday at Good Araneta Coliseum.
The Girl Falcons and Tigresses might be clashing with higher-ranked foes within the semifinals, with Adamson tangling with defending champion Nationwide College (NU) and fourth-ranked Santo Tomas colliding with No. 1 La Salle.
They should beat these powerhouses two straight instances to advance to the title collection and it’s a problem the lower-ranked groups aren’t about to again out of.
“This is a chance for greatness. We gained a set or two (towards NU within the elimination spherical), so it means we’ve got an opportunity,’’ stated Adamson coach Jerry Yee, who misplaced each matches with the Girl Bulldogs within the eliminations.
‘Need to play proper’
“We all know we are able to combat, we simply must play proper,’’ stated Yee, whose strong core of hitters in Trisha Tubu, Lucille Almonte, Kate Santiago and center blocker Lorence Toring will play pivotal roles.
Beating defending champion NU twice will catapult the Girl Falcons again to the Finals for the primary time since Season 70, the place they misplaced within the title collection to Far Jap.
That season was additionally the best end within the elimination spherical for the Girl Falcons previous to this one the place they compiled a 10-4 file.
“We had been simply off towards them within the second spherical, stated skipper Louie Romero of a 25-22, 25-19, 25-27, 22-25, 15-10 loss final March 1. “We’ve got to play solidly as a group if we wish to win.”
“We by no means anticipated to be right here. We’ll put together arduous and ensure to execute nicely. It’s going to be now or by no means,’’ stated Romero.
Santo Tomas is answerable for La Salle’s solely lack of the season and group chief Eya Laure is all pumped up after a sterling 28-point effort towards the Girl Maroons.
“We’ve got an ongoing rivalry with La Salle and it’s fairly motivating. We all know that they’ll come ready,’’ stated Laure, the match’s main scorer. “La Salle is La Salle. Whereas they’ve a powerful system in place, we’ll simply proceed to match it with our personal system.”
Absent stars
“We’ll convey the teachings that we’ve discovered after this sport reached 5 units,” stated Santo Tomas coach Kungfu Reyes, whose prices additionally closed out at 10-4 however misplaced within the quotient to attract La Salle. “These items we’ll treasure going into the Remaining 4.’’
Laure scored the Tigresses’ last 5 factors, because the squad made do even with out Bernadette Pepito, who was out resulting from dehydration and Filipino-Italian Milena Alessandrini, who needed to sit out due to a nagging knee harm.
Each, although, are anticipated again come Wednesday.
Regina Jurado contributed 15 factors to the Tigresses’ trigger, Imee Hernandez and Renee Peñafiel added 14 and 11 factors, whereas gutsy setter Cassie Carballo had 20 glorious units. Xyza Gula had 22 digs and 11 receptions.
“A number of the gamers stepped up within the absence of those that weren’t capable of play,” Laure added. “They embraced their roles and accepted the problem.’’ INQ
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