UST Tigresses’ Eya Laure goes for a kill within the UAAP Season 85 girls’s volleyball match. –UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–College of Santo Tomas needed to scrape previous College of the East in a marathon first set earlier than prevailing, 30-32, 25-18, 25-16, 25-14, on Saturday on the UAAP Season 85 girls’s volleyball.
Eya Laure closed out the win with a ruthless kill by way of the blocking Riza Nogales that capped an 18-point, 14-attack efficiency for the Tigresses’ third consecutive victory.
“We’ve got to work on our depth on the courtroom. We have been at all times reminded to not sustain with the depth of our opponents and goal to only do higher,’’ mentioned Laure, who added six digs and three blocks to her stat line.
The Tigresses ended the primary spherical with a 5-2 file, giving them the much-needed encouragement getting into the ultimate section of the match.
Regina Jurado labored arduous on the internet with 13 factors, together with 10 assaults, Filipino-Italian Milena Alessandrini was likewise on assault mode with 12 factors and two service aces, Cassie Carballo had 15 wonderful units whereas libero Bernadett Pepito gamely registered 14 digs and 18 receptions.
“It is a huge morale booster going into the second spherical. We simply must maintain our recreation and proper our lapses throughout follow,’’ mentioned UST coach Kungfu Reyes.
The Tigresses have been in complete management early within the first set, rushing away 17-9 and thriving on the Woman Warriors’ miscues.
UST Tigresses within the goes for a kill within the UAAP Season 85 girls’s volleyball match. –UAAP PHOTO
The tendency to take it simple engulfed them, nonetheless, allowing the UE to creep in and worn out the deficit by way of the heroics of Janeca Lana, KC Cepeda and Vanessa Bangayan.
Lana’s push and a block by Riza Nogales on the power-striking Xyza Gula knotted the depend at 22 and what got here subsequent was an extended change of assaults and errors on each side earlier than Cepeda imposed herself.
Cepada hammered the UST protection with back-to-back kills because the Woman Warriors accomplished their dizzying comeback.
Desirous to rapidly retrieve their satisfaction, the Tigresses once more took command on the onset of the second set, however this time they made certain no collapse will hit them once more.
Two successive errors by Cepada and Alessandrini’s down-the-line assault opened a 22-15 benefit for UST that Jurado punctuated with a pair of authoritative strikes.
They grew to become calmer over the following two frames, beginning out sturdy once more on each events with Imee Hernandez and KC Galdones taking cost within the third with a down-the-line assault and a block off Lana at match level.
The Tigresses can’t be denied within the final set with Alessandrini conserving them safely forward with a wide range of assaults earlier than Hernandez and Laure utterly dashing the hopes of the Woman Warriors for a breakthrough win.
Lana scored 13, together with 12 assaults, KC Cepada had 12 markers and Vanessa Bangayan contributed 10 assaults, 11 digs and 13 receptions for the Woman Warriors, who misplaced all of their matches within the first spherical.
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