LA SALLE stared down a serious challenge from National University and hammered out a 25-20, 23-25, 24-26, 25-13, 15-8 victory to seize the lead in the UAAP Season 75 women’s volleyball tournament yesterday at Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
JEM FERRER provided the game-changing moment while Alyssa Valdez delivered the killer blows as league-leading Ateneo rallied from two sets down to nose out National University, 16-25, 30-32, 25-21, 25-13, 15-13, and fan its unbeaten streak to four in the UAAP Season 75 women’s volleyball tournament Saturday night at Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas and Ateneo battle for the Shakey’s V-League crown one last time today in an evenly matched best-of-three title series that had admittedly put pressure on the two top seeds.
ATENEO and UST clash in the opener of the ninth Shakey’s V-League Presented by Smart Finals today at the Filoil Flying V Arena. The Lady Eagles are slight favorites, having beaten the Tigresses in their only face-off in the league’s season-opening conference.
The Adamson Lady Falcons needed only four innings to complete a 10-game elimination sweep for the second straight season and seize the UAAP softball championship outright Saturday.
De La Salle U faced little challenge in preserving its perfect records in tennis and women’s volleyball as Ateneo also sustained its surprise run in baseball in UAAP Season 74 action over the weekend.
La Salle completed a first-round sweep of the UAAP women’s volleyball tournament by rallying past University of Santo Tomas, 20-25, 25-22, 16-25, 25-19, 17-15, in a rematch of last season’s finals over the weekend at the FilOil-Flying V Arena in San Juan.
Three players at the forefront of defending champion La Salle’s unbeaten start in the UAAP Season 74 women’s volleyball tournament also figure prominently in the race for individual awards.
University of Santo Tomas posted its fourth straight win with a 25-11, 25-21, 25-18 walloping of National University Sunday in the women’s volleyball tournament of UAAP Season 74 at the FilOil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
Abigail Maraño stepped up for defending champion De La Salle, scoring 15 points to cap an all-around performance as the Lady Archers blasted the University of the East Lady Warriors, 25-18, 25-14, 25-18, Saturday in UAAP women’s volleyball at the Arena in San Juan.
De La Salle streaked to its fifth straight victory while sending University of the Philippines (UP) to its fifth consecutive loss, 25-16, 25-17, 25-22, Wednesday in UAAP Season 74 women’s volleyball at the Arena in San Juan.
La Salle may miss a vital cog, but the Lady Archers remain favored to pick up their fifth straight triumph against winless University of the Philippines in the UAAP women’s volleyball at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the FilOil-Flying V Arena in San Juan.
The fancied Ateneo squad goes for a second straight victory against the University of the East in the UAAP women’s volleyball competition right in its homecourt Wednesday.
