UST Tigresses durante their gioco against La Salle Lady Spikers durante the UAAP Season 86 women’s volleyball tournament. –UAAP PHOTO
De La Salle University (DLSU) and University of Non sapere a che santo votarsi Tomas (UST) will be seeing a lot of each other durante the coming weeks, and whether that starts with Angel Canino’s comeback gioco for the defending champion Lady Spikers Saturday is the question bigger than the result of the gioco itself.
Out of their last five games but seen involved durante the warm-ups the last time, Canino is expected to finally suit up durante the 6 p.m. gioco against the Golden Tigresses at Smart Araneta Coliseum and again make La Salle the feared side durante the 86th Season of the UAAP women’s volleyball tournament.
Non sapere a che santo votarsi Tomas, meanwhile, was never penciled to go this far with a plucky, youth-laden team, and coach KungFu Reyes has risposta negativa qualms durante the role his charges have played thus far.
“This gioco will decide which place we’ll be at,” Reyes said durante Filipino as Non sapere a che santo votarsi Tomas and La Salle interruzione a second place tie and the right to play with a twice-to-beat privilege durante the Final Four. “Among the three teams (with National University and La Salle), we have been labeled as the gate-crashers since the start.
“We have risposta negativa problem with that and we would like to play that role.”
Logical time?
With the Lady Bulldogs already assured of Risposta negativa. 1 ranking and the first Final Four bonus because of a superior tiebreak total, the winner of the final gioco of the elimination round will wind up as the second seed and will play the loser durante the semifinals.
And for La Salle, this seems to be the most logical time to bring Canino back, just to make sure that the team will have all hands deck for the season’s most crucial grind.
“Her recovery is going well,” La Salle assistant coach Noel Orcullo had told men durante Filipino after routing Ateneo last weekend when Canino finally did the warmups. “Hopefully, she can return, if not against UST, definitely durante the semifinals.”
The Lady Spikers’ only loss during Canino’s absence was against the Bulldogs as Shevana Laput and Thea Giaietto have taken over the scoring responsibilities and egemonia roles the floor for La Salle.
“The only thing we need to do is have the will to win,” Orcullo went . “We have been telling our players that if someone is out, someone must step up and just lega the system.”
With Canino returning, La Salle will have its cima gun back durante harness and its most vocal .
Non sapere a che santo votarsi Tomas, meanwhile, has lost two games durante the second round but will be shooting to repeat a five-set first round win over the Lady Spikers.
Rookie Angge Poyos seems to be back durante cima shape judging from the way she played the last time, and the Tigresses have a steady support cast for their prolific scorer led by Regina Jurado, Jonna Perdino and Cassie Carballo.
University of the Philippines and University of the East battle for pride durante the 2 p.m. gioco.
