Mouth-watering sequence sealed with Bulldogs, Tigresses advancing

Alyssa Solomon sneaks in a kill in opposition to a UP double block. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Nationwide College (NU) and College of Santo Tomas churned out straight-sets victories over separate foes on Sunday and superior to face completely different sides in a pair of mouth-watering match-ups to make up the semifinals of the 2024 Shakey’s Tremendous League Collegiate Pre-season Championship.

Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon hammered the College of the Philippines protection in main the Bulldogs to a 25-12, 25-22, 25-17 victory and march right into a closing 4 match with unbeaten Far Jap College (FEU), even because the Golden Tigresses relied crew effort to get previous College of the East, 25-22, 25-21, 25-21, and seal a date with bitter UAAP rival La Salle.

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The match between the Woman Spikers and the Tigresses is ready on Wednesday, whereas the Nationwide U-Far Jap KO sport occurs on Saturday.

“We don’t need to waste what we now have labored so very onerous for,” Solomon, who completed with 10 factors, stated in Filipino because the Bulldogs by no means gave the Woman Maroons an opportunity. “We need to apply what we now have discovered in follow into all our video games.”

Nationwide U is attempting to win this occasion for the third straight time and hold alive a string of successes relationship again to the UAAP final yr the place the Bulldogs swept the Tigresses within the title sequence.

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The NU-FEU match is a replay of the Nationwide Invitationals gained by the Bulldogs final July.

Santo Tomas, in the meantime, battled from six factors down within the third set earlier than pulling out the win, with Angge Poyos main a 13-3 windup.

Poyos completed with 15 factors and Regina Jurado 12 as Santo Tomas appears to have gathered all of the momentum it wants heading into the sequence with the Woman Spikers, a harmful lot bannered by Angel Canino and Shevana Laput.

“We simply performed composed, even whereas we have been watching an enormous deficit,” Poyos, final season’s high UAAP rookie, stated in Filipino. “We saved in thoughts that communication on the ground is essential.”