La Salle’s Thea Gagate towards Ateneo within the UAAP Season 86 ladies’s volleyball match.–UAAP PHOTO
Trying again on the defeat they absorbed by the hands of the College of Santo Tomas (UST) Tigresses, the La Salle Girl Spikers wished they might have put their peak and size to nice use.
“We weren’t capable of maximize our power. Our center one way or the other acquired restricted in that recreation,’’ mentioned La Salle coach Ramil De Jesus.
If the Girl Spikers have their manner, that’s not going to occur anymore.
The defending champions intend to impose their dimension benefit over the remainder of the sphere for the rest of the UAAP Season 86 ladies’s volleyball match.
They started on Saturday night time, unlocking their 6-foot-2 center blockers in a 25-12, 25-22, 25-19 rout of rival Ateneo at SM Mall of Asia Enviornment.
Thea Gagate punched in 15 factors whereas Shevana Laput added 13 within the win that gave the Girl Spikers a 3-1 (win-loss) file.
Angel Canino had 10 factors, Julia Coronel tossed 16 glorious units and La Salle started cleansing up the mess the crew was in a five-set defeat to the smaller however faster Tigresses in a earlier match.
“Our timing was off again then, we had been disorganized. We managed to appropriate these errors and will be capable of maintain it in our succeeding video games,’’ mentioned De Jesus.
La Salle’s win saved it tied with Nationwide College at second place. The Girl Bulldogs notched their third win in 4 video games by crushing free-falling College of the Philippines, 25-17, 25-16, 25-17.
Lyann De Guzman led the Blue Eagles with 15 factors, together with 13 assaults, and had one block and an ace as they dropped one other recreation, their third in 4 matches following a breakthrough win over College of the Philippines.
thirteenth straight defeat
It was the Blue Eagles thirteenth straight defeat by the hands of the Girl Spikers since La Salle defeated them in Sport 1 of their championship collection in Season 79 again in 2017. However De Jesus isn’t counting.
“I’m probably not trying on the rivalry (towards Ateneo). Each recreation for us is massive regardless who we face,’’ mentioned De Jesus. “It simply so occurred that we get pleasure from a protracted successful custom over Ateneo.’’Gagate, Laput and Canino took turns establishing La Salle’s dominance over its rebuilding rivals. Canino scored on a robust cross-court kill and Laput wrapped up the primary set with an ace.
“We actually made massive changes the previous week since that (UST) loss and I’m comfortable to see that we utilized them on this recreation,’’ mentioned Canino, final season’s rookie-MVP.
The Blue Eagles stormed again within the second set with De Guzman serving to her squad tie the sport at 21.
However Laput once more tallied an ace and Canino scored on a kill to place the Girl Spikers up, two units to none, and take the struggle out of their rivals.
La Salle cruised within the third set with Gagate nailing a kill and a block to seal the victory. INQ
