La Salle Woman Spikers’ Thea Gagate within the UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball match.–UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–La Salle would have not one of the publicized epic rivalry with Ateneo after the defending champions dumped their arch nemesis, 25-12, 25-12, 25-18, as shortly as potential on Sunday evening within the UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball match.
The Woman Spikers have been merely all enterprise on the Sensible Araneta Coliseum, preferring to get the Blue Eagles out of the way in which swiftly in a straight-set victory that additional heated up the situation on the high of the standings.
Thea Gagate battered Ateneo with an assortment of hits, tallying 16 factors for a 71-percent attacking effectivity on high of six blocks whereas Shevana Laput likewise imposed herself within the center with correct strikes.
SCHEDULE: UAAP Season 86 volleyball second spherical
With their eleventh win of the season, the Woman Spikers compelled a three-way tie with co-leaders Nationwide College and College of Santo Tomas after 13 video games.
It should all come to a head on Saturday when La Salle and UST wrap up the elimination part after the NU-Far Jap College showdown on Wednesday.
“We performed a well-polished sport. There have been lapses within the third set, however we have been capable of recuperate. Hopefully, we will keep the efficiency in opposition to UST,” stated La Salle coach Noel Orcullo.
The 2 main groups from among the many Woman Spikers, the Tigresses and the Woman Bulldogs after the 14-game preliminaries earn a vital twice-to-beat edge within the Last 4.
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“It (twice-to-beat benefit) received’t be given to us. We’ve got to earn it by specializing in each level and staying within the system come Saturday,” stated Gagate.
The primary two units appeared dim for the Blue Eagles and that hardly modified within the final and ultimate body regardless of combating neck and neck early on.
Laput unloaded a back-row hit and Gagate discovered a vacant spot down the center for an 11-7 La Salle benefit.
The Blue Eagles tried a comeback with Yssa Nisperos and AC Miner exhibiting the way in which solely to get annoyed by Laput on the web.
Laput efficiently deflected Ateneo’s assault twice after an off-the-block strike and the Woman Spikers put themselves ready to once more seize the set.
Gagate’s block on Nisperos, who overcooked her spike within the ensuing play introduced La Salle nearer to match level earlier than Laput’s push to a gaping gap closed it out for good.
Angel Canino sat her fifth sport in a row attributable to an injured arm. Final yr’s rookie-MVP hammered a wide range of spikes throughout the Woman Spikers’ pre-game warmup, however wasn’t fielded.
“The progress of her restoration is nice. Hopefully, she might return both in opposition to UST or within the semifinals,” stated Orcollo.
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The Blue Eagles fell to their ninth defeat in 13 video games and might solidify a fifth-place end of their ultimate sport of the season reverse the Adamson Woman Falcons on Wednesday.
