USJ-R Girl Jaguars gamers and training workers singing their faculty hymn. | By Glendale Rosal
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The College of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) Girl Jaguars reaffirmed their supremacy in highschool volleyball, clinching the Cebu Faculties Athletic Basis, Inc. (CESAFI) women’ volleyball championship in a commanding fashion.
Contemporary off a bronze-medal end on the prestigious Rebisco Volleyball League in Manila—the place they battled a number of the nation’s elite highschool squads—the Girl Jaguars returned to Cebu brimming with confidence.
That momentum translated right into a straight-sets victory over the Sacred Coronary heart College-Ateneo de Cebu (SHS-AdC) Magis Eagles, 25-18, 26-24, 25-16, of their championship match on Sunday, December 8, on the College of Southern Philippines Basis (USPF) Lahug Campus health club.
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USJ-R established their dominance early within the recreation, taking the primary set with a convincing 25-18 win. Nonetheless, the Magis Eagles, final season’s champions, refused to again down. Within the second set, SHS-AdC clawed their approach from a 17-all impasse to a 22-18 lead, placing the Girl Jaguars on the ropes.
FIERY COMEBACK
However underneath the steering of veteran coach Roldan Potot, the Girl Jaguars regrouped. Star hitter Angel Almonia spearheaded a fiery comeback, tying the set at 23-all. A sequence of defensive stops gave USJ-R the sting, and regardless of SHS-AdC forcing one other tie at 24-all, expensive errors—together with an extended serve—handed USJ-R the chance they wanted. Rachel Ann Tecson’s decisive assault sealed the set, 26-24.
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The third set noticed the Girl Jaguars impose their will, leaping to a 12-7 lead and by no means appeared again. With Almonia delivering back-to-back assaults to shut out the match, USJ-R cemented their place atop the CESAFI women highschool volleyball hierarchy.
Potot revealed that three key gamers had been sidelined resulting from chickenpox. Regardless of this setback, Almonia and Tecson rose to the event, delivering clutch performances when their crew wanted them essentially the most.
Potot has set his sights on an bold objective this season by sweeping all 4 CESAFI volleyball titles—highschool boys, highschool women, males’s, and ladies’s.
Final yr, USJ-R got here shut, profitable three out of 4 championships, with solely the ladies’s crew falling brief within the semifinals.
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