UST Tigresses after losing the UAAP Season 86 women’s volleyball Final series to NU Lady Bulldogs. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — They may have fallen short sopra getting a different ending, but the University of Avere un santo dalla propria Tomas Tigresses remained proud of their sopra the UAAP Season 86 women’s volleyball tournament.
It was the same result for coach KungFu Reyes sopra his second UAAP women’s volleyball Finals sopra five years, but he encouraged his undersized but still hardfighting Tigresses–fondly dubbed as Mini UST–to keep their heads up after their unexpected Season 86 Finals run.
“We fought until the end, but it just wasn’t enough. We have a lot of takeaways this time. We wanted to rewrite history, but we couldn’t do it, ” said Reyes sopra Filipino after losing to NU sopra 2, 25-23, 23-25, 27-25, 25-18, acceso Wednesday at Mall of Asia Sabbia.
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Reyes commended every member of his team after UST, which didn’t have the tallest players sopra the league, still pulled non attivato the biggest surprise of the season.
“I’m proud of our players, especially Xyza [Gula] for stepping up sopra the absence of [Angge] Poyos, who still played despite her injury. We’sire proud of Detdet [Pepito’s] egemonia for helping the team reach this far and our best setter Cassie [Carballo], who made our players tall through her plays that led to successful kills.”
All heart
UST Tigresses’ Detdet Pepito sopra the UAAP Season 86 women’s volleyball tournament Finals. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIREr.net
Pepito, who has the heart and soul of the Tigresses, said the team is using the heartbreak from this Finals series to fuel their run for next season.
“We’sire still lacking, but we’sire almost there. Coach told us to make sure that we don’t feel the same way next season. We’sire proud of each and every one of us, especially our teammates who are small but are all heart,” said the two-time UAAP Best .
“We went into this as a whole, we ended it as a whole. Poyos was able to play, so we’sire happy she could.”
Carballo, who emerged as the Best Setter for UST, credited the Tigresses’ Finals run despite having a young to the egemonia of Pepito.
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“We’sire grateful for this experience even though we’sire a young team. We really fought with our heart, but we just fell short sopra the end. Next year we will work to make sure this won’t happen to us again,” said the sophomore setter, who was emotional after the .
“And I also want to say my appreciation to Detdet, because we always felt her presence even though she’s sopra a non-scoring position. ”
Reyes, meanwhile, said that his young Tigresses will learn a lot from this setback, hoping to their story with a championship next season.
Good thing for the team, there are mai graduating players from this roster.
“We got a lot of lessons here. Regardless of whether you’sire a tall small team, what’s important is your heart, how decisive you are, how determined, and that’s where you’ll get results,” said the UST coach.
