Farm Fresh Foxies. –PVL PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–Farm Fresh upset Chery Tiggo, 25-23, 25-22, 25-16, in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) All-Filipino Conference on Saturday at Filoil EcoOil Centre.
Trisha Tubu, Chinnie Arroyo and Louie Romero led the Foxies in their first win against the Crossovers since they joined the league two conferences ago.
Tubu finished with 18 points on 17 points and a block, Arroyo added 11 points, all from attacks, while team captain Romero tallied 27 excellent sets as well as two points for the Foxies to improve to a 2-2 slate tied with the Crossovers.
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Farm Fresh surprised Chery Tiggo with its system introduced by Japanese assistant coach Mikihiro Shimizu that showed the Foxies’ mastery in offense and defense.
“Super happy ako kasi nakuha namin ‘yung panalo in straight sets. And nakita namin na maganda ‘yung program ngayon,” Romero said. “Nagko-contribute talaga ‘yung bawat isa sa ‘min para maayos ‘yung galaw namin.”
Both teams were hungry to bounce back with Farm Fresh coming off a straight sets loss to Akari and Chery Tiggo falling in four sets to dominant Choco Mucho.
“’Yung past games po kasi namin [may lapses] ‘yung game ko. So mga coaches po namin and si Tito Frank [Lao, team owner] lagi po kaming nire-remind na lumaban lang at wag matakot tsaka tibayan sa court, puso,” Tubu said.
Eya Laure was the only Crossover to reach twin digits with 11 points, mostly from attacks, as Chery Tiggo fell short in its second consecutive game.
“May game plan po kasi kaming ginawa so nag stick lang po ako doon, kung ano po yung sinasabi ng coaches, saan ‘yung ta-targetin ko, saan ‘yung ibo-block ko. Thankfully po nasunod ‘yung game plan namin,” Tubu added.
“’Yung number one nilang instruction sa amin ay mag-communicate kayo sa loob para maayos ‘yung galaw,” she said.
And Farm Fresh would need to continue with the same approach to get past Petro Gazz, winners of two in a row, on Thursday at PhilSports Arena.
The Angels are also working under Japanese coach Koji Tsuzurabara.
“Magandang motivation po ito para sa next game po namin kasi ‘yun nga same system. Probably po same lang po ‘yung pattern namin. So pag aaralan po namin kung saan kami mas makaka-gain ng maraming points,’ Tubu said.