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La Salle Woman Spikers are off to the UAAP Season 84 ladies’s volleyball finals. –UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–La Salle encountered a late third-quarter jolt earlier than shutting down Ateneo, 25-19, 25-20, 25-23, late Thursday to barge into the championship of the UAAP Season 84 ladies’s volleyball at Mall of Asia Area.
The Woman Spikers will face unbeaten finalist Nationwide College within the best-of-three sequence starting on Saturday.
But it surely was not with out a hitch as Ateneo relied on Religion Nisperos to steer a late-match cost bringing the Blue Eagles from 21-14 to 22-19 on her 4 straight factors.
Then Erika Raagas took the cudgels serving to Ateneo to breathe to La Salle’s neck at 23-22 and erase one match level for 24-23.
In the long run, it was the well-oiled system of the Woman Spikers that prevailed as Thea Gagate and Leiah Malaluan next scored to protect their first finals look in 4 seasons.
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Malaluan completed with 16 factors, whereas Gagate and Jolina Dela Cruz added 13 factors every for the Woman Spikers. Nisperos ended with 19 markers for the fallen defending champions.
La Salle didn’t waste time in imposing its would possibly, rallying from a 7-10 deficit to take the lead at 12-11 on back-to-back aces by Dela Cruz. There was no wanting again within the set as soon as Aleiah Malaluan discovered her mark and Thea Gagate closed down the air house for the Blue Eagles.
The Woman Spikers scored 4 on kill-blocks whereas committing much less errors within the opening body, 8-3, as they confirmed fruits of a protracted break the Blue Eagles didn’t get.
The momentum spilled over to the second set as each Woman Spiker performed their roles effectively within the La Salle system. Gagate slammed for a 21-18 lead which fuelled their end-set drive.
Ateneo prime gunner Nisperos fired to shut in at 22-20. However there was no different Blue Eagle prepared or capable of step up in contrast to La Salle’s Julia Coronel whose ace put the Woman Spikers to set-point within the second body.
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