Philippine ladies’s volleyball group within the SEA Video games 2023. –SMM VOLLEYBALL PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine ladies’s volleyball group was despatched crashing again to earth by reigning silver medalist Vietnam, 20-25, 17-25, 19-25, absorbing its first defeat in Group B within the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games on Wednesday at Indoor Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tran Thi Thanh Thuy remained to be a thorn within the facet of Philippines as she sparked the Vietnamese’s comeback within the first set and nailed the killer blows within the final two units to maintain her group unbeaten in two video games to advance to the semifinal spherical.
Mylene Paat and Tots Carlos led the way in which for the Filipino Spikers, who took a 14-9 lead within the first set earlier than Thuy ignited Vietnam’s run to tie the sport.
Kat Tolentino stopped the bleeding with a back-row kill however nationals dedicated 4 consecutive errors that gave the Vietnamese a 23-20 lead earlier than Thuy’s assault and Doan Thi Xuan’s set-clinching block stole the opening body.
Thuy joined palms with Xuan and Nguyen Thi Trinh to dominate the second set and produce their momentum within the third with a 20-14 unfold. The Philippines refused to surrender because it scored 4 consecutive factors together with back-to-back blocks from Dell Palomata and Carlos to chop it right down to 20-18.
MUST WIN VS SINGAPORE
Philippine ladies’s volleyball group within the SEA Video games 2023. –SMM VOLLEYBALL PHOTO
Thuy drilled 4 of Vietnam’s final 5 factors to seal their second win, becoming a member of Group A’s Thailand, which holds a 2-0 report, within the semifinals.
The Filipinos gun for the final semifinal berth in Group B once they tackle Singapore on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Nationwide group coach Jorge Souza de Brito fielded a special set of starters with Tolentino and Celine Domingo having extra enjoying time on this recreation, following a 25-5, 25-5, 25-5 rout of Cambodia final Tuesday.
Palomata and Jema Galanza, who shone of their first win lower than 24 minutes in the past, noticed restricted motion.
Alyssa Valdez remained on the sidelines for the second straight recreation within the SEA Video games. She hasn’t performed a recreation since her proper knee harm final December.
Setter Jia De Guzman celebrated her twenty eighth birthday with a loss.
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