FEU Woman Tamaraws have a good time throughout a win over the top-seeded NU Woman Bulldogs of their UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball Last 4 match.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines–Far Japanese College confirmed up with one of the best model of itself and by no means seemed this good.
Working the chance of ending their season utterly, the Woman Tamaraws virtually outperformed themselves by downing the Nationwide College Woman Bulldogs, 25-23, 25-17, 25-23, on Saturday night time to maneuver a step nearer to the UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball finals.
“It’s not but accomplished. There’s another sport that we have now to win,” mentioned Chenie Tagaod after main her group in erasing NU’s twice-to-beat benefit of their make-or-break face-off on the Sensible Araneta Coliseum.
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One other victory come Wednesday will elevate the Woman Tamaraws to a championship showdown in opposition to the survivor between the College of Santo Tomas Tigresses and the La Salle Woman Spikers within the different Last 4 pairing.
“Proper now, we’re on Cloud 9. However we shouldn’t overlook that it’s not but over. We’ve to maintain our toes on the bottom as a result of there’s extra work to do,” mentioned FEU coach Manolo Refugia.
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Tin Ubaldo was the lynchpin that held them collectively, working the Woman Tamaraws offense fluidly with 16 wonderful units other than 4 assaults, one block and an ace whereas Tagaod and Jean Asis have been the recipients principally of Ubaldo’s generosity with 12 factors and 11 apiece.
“We’re tremendous wanting to be within the finals. Our efficiency again in Season 84 and final 12 months have turn into our inspiration,” mentioned Ubaldo.
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The Woman Tamaraws positioned final amongst eight groups two years in the past and missed the semifinal bus in Season 85 previous to pulling off the unthinkable of defeating the Woman Bulldogs, a squad they haven’t crushed the previous six conferences since Season 84.
“Each sport I’ve been eager about these two seasons that we didn’t do properly. I don’t need to return and expertise the sensation,” mentioned Ubaldo.
FEU Woman Tamaraws’ Chenie Tagaod reacts throughout a UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball Last 4 match in opposition to the NU Woman Bulldogs.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
As for the Woman Bulldogs, who swept the opposition within the second spherical, the meltdown was an entire heartbreak contemplating they need to make the most of the leverage that they possessed within the semifinals.
Bella Belen tried to resuscitate her group within the third set and completed with 12 factors whereas Vangie Alinsug and Alyssa Solomon chipped in eight assaults every.
However what harm them most have been the unforced errors that hounded the Woman Bulldogs all night time lengthy. That they had 25 errors in comparison with FEU’s 20 with a big chunk carried out by Solomon.
Tagaod summoned her prowess late within the first set, pulling out the Woman Tamaraws from a impasse at 20 by smashing the alternative ground for them to grab command.
Tagaod’s energy strike adopted by an ace put them inside two factors of sealing the opening body.
However Erin Pangilinan made certain the Woman Bulldogs gained’t surrender similar to that, deflecting Faida Bakanke’s blow and driving a down-the-line assault of her personal.
A service error by Solomon within the subsequent sequence didn’t assist in any respect and Gerzel Petallo made certain this one could be theirs to take with an uncontested smash off a mixture play.
The Woman Bulldogs’ errors, together with Solomon’s six errors, clearly received into them as they fell early within the second set.
Jean Asis scored on a push whereas Solomon’s cross went too large and Abe Pono dedicated a service error for a seven-point FEU benefit.
Asis additional racked it up, dropping one other bomb to the opposite aspect and tallying an ace earlier than errors utterly engulfed the Woman Bulldogs.
Manner forward 24-16 and on the lookout for that killer, Ubaldo tossed it excessive for Bakanke, who soared above her blockers and punched down a strike that ended the set in a a lot simpler style.
Because the Woman Bulldogs appeared to have misplaced the need to battle within the third set, the underdog Woman Tamaraws raced swiftly forward, 7-0, constructed on good blocks and good placement assaults.
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Belen chopped away on the deficit because the Woman Bulldogs pulled inside 22-21 on Cham Maaya’s ace with Solomon and Alinsug likewise chipping in.
However it was visibly not Solomon’s night time after she dedicated one other service blunder earlier than Bakanke capped it off with an imposing crosscourt strike that rolled off Belen’s arms earlier than dropping inside
