Farm Recent Foxies throughout a PVL on Tour recreation towards Galeries Tower HighRisers. —PVL PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — Farm Recent swept the winless Galeries Tower, 27-25, 25-17, 25-18, for its third straight victory and an opportunity for the final quarterfinal berth in Pool A within the PVL on Tour on Saturday at USJ-R Coliseum in Cebu Metropolis.
The Foxies staved off the gritty HighRisers, as Trisha Tubu and Jolina Dela Cruz continued to shine underneath Italian coach Alessandro Lodi for a 3-1 file tied with the Nxled Chameleons at No.2.
Farm Recent and Nxled, which absorbed its first loss to PLDT earlier, dispute the ultimate outright quarterfinal berth in Cebu on Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
“We’re joyful for the win however like I simply informed the crew within the locker room, we can not present up like we did within the first set. It was not ok for what we need to turn into,” mentioned Lodi.
“We did just a few good issues however this is only one small step. We have to play higher beginning tomorrow towards Nxled.”
Farm Recent Foxies’ Trisha Tubu. PVL PHOTO
Tubu delivered 14 factors on a 13-of-29 attacking clip, whereas Dela Cruz fired 4 aces to complete with 11 factors.
Cebuana center blocker Lorene Toring chipped in 9 factors, hitting all her seven assault makes an attempt. Rizza Cruz had seven factors, whereas setter Alohi Robins-Hardy dished out 14 glorious units on high of 4 factors because the crew’s essential playmaker
Rachel Anne Daquis tallied seven factors and 7 digs and had her moments within the third set for a 12-6 begin, which paved the best way to stretch the margin to 18-13.
Daquis, nonetheless, was a goal of Jean Asis’ back-to-back aces to chop their benefit to 2, 18-16, just for the HighRisers to commit six errors within the Foxies’ final seven factors.
Farm Recent recovered from a 21-23 deficit within the opening set as Dela Cruz compelled a deuce, 24-all, earlier than Robins-Hardy saved one other set level with a clutch 1-2 play.
Daquis drilled a down-the-line kill to take the set level, 26-25. Dimdim Pacres’ assault was initially awarded as a kill for Galeries within the subsequent play. Farm Recent challenged the decision and confirmed that the ball didn’t hit Lorene Toring’s pinky finger to clinch the opening set.
“Sure we nonetheless gained, however we nonetheless need to be trustworthy. We don’t should win the primary set. You’ll be able to nonetheless not play nice and nonetheless hold enjoying in the long run to drag it off however there was assist from the opponent. We actually underperformed,” mentioned the Farm Recent coach.”After that, we settled just a little bit. We calmed down just a little and we performed our recreation with extra management and poise.”
The Foxies dominated the second with a 20-13 margin off Dela Cruz’s ace en path to a two-set benefit.
The HighRisers remained winless in 4 video games, with France Ronquillo main the best way with 14 factors. Asis tried the other spiker place and completed with 11 factors from six spikes, three aces, and two blocks.
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Galeries tries to keep away from a winless Pool A marketing campaign towards the unbeaten PLDT (4-0) at 4 p.m.
