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UAAP volleyball: FEU crushes Adamson’s Final Four hopes

Showing no signs of letting up, the FEU Lady Tamaraws eliminated the Adamson Lady Falcons from playoff contention in their straight sets win, 25-20, 25-21, 25-18 at the Filoil Flying V Arena Saturday afternoon.

With this win, FEU will now wait for the results of the UP versus NU match tomorrow to determine on whether or not a playoff or quotient system will be followed to determine the team that will get the last Final Four berth.

“Good game kami today at sa wakas nakita rin namin ‘yung laro ng mga bata at ‘yung tiwala sa isa’t-isa,” said FEU head coach Shaq Delos Santos. “Gumagana rin ang mga plays namin at lalo na ‘yung coordination ng team.”

FEU had their way throughout the game as they had extinguished everything that Adamson tried to throw at them.

With an 8-all deadlock in the third set after Mylene Paat blocked an attack from Heather Guino-o, Adamson seemed to be gearing up for a massive run to extend the game to extra sets.

However, FEU took charge and looked to finish the game early as they uncorked a 10-2 scoring run to stretch their lead to 18-10 after a thunderous spike from Bernadeth Pons.

Looking to slam the door shut after extending their lead to 23-13, Samantha Dawson would give the killing blows, aided by a couple of Adamson errors, to finally end the game.  

“Sobrang sakit ng naramdaman namin last year [dahil eliminated kami ng Adamson],” added Delos Santos. “Luckily binigay ni God sa amin ang panalo.”

Pons and Palma led the Tamaraw charge with both players dropping 12 points apiece. In addition, Genevieve Casugod had 10 points.

For Adamson, Paat had 11 points and 3 blocks while Jessica Galanza added 7 points. In addition, Amanda Villanueva had 5 points and 7 digs.

This also marks the last UAAP games for Adamson’s graduating seniors in Villanueva, team captain Faye Guevara and libero Princess Listana.

The scores:

FEU (3) – Pons 12, Palma 12, Casugod 10, Dawson 7, Guino-o 6, Papa 5, Malabanan 1, Atienza 0, Agno (L) 0.

ADU (0) – Paat 11, Galanza 7, Alkuino 5, Dacoron 5, Emnas 4, Guevara 4, Cortel 0, Lebumfacil 0, Tempiatura (L) 0, Listana (L) 0.