Delos Santos on crucial loss to UST: It wasn’t for us

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Far Eastern University head coach Shaq Delos Santos didn’t take long in explaining his team’s disappointing loss to University of Santo Tomas Saturday in the UAAP Season 79 women’s volleyball tournament.

Both the Golden Tigresses and the Lady Tamaraws were in dire need of wins if they wamted to go the semifinals and UST took that all-important win in four sets, 17-25, 25-17, 26-24, 25-21, and improved to 7-4.

“We were just off today, everything we expected to happen in the game never happened,” said Delos Santos as his team slipped to 5-6 and stayed at sixth seed with the elimination round winding down.

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“I guess the win wasn’t for us.”

FEU had a chance to extend the match to a fifth set after scoring six straight points to cut a 24-15 deficit to 24-21.

EJ Laure, though, had other plans and scored her 20th point and stopped the Lady Tamaraws’ advance.

Delos Santos said the Lady Tamaraws he saw on the floor didn’t come out like they wanted to win such a crucial game heading into the Final Four.

“I know if they want to play well but that wasn’t the team we saw and expected today,” said Delos Santos. “Now we have to win our remaining three games if we ever want to get to the Final Four.”