UST Tigresses’ Ange Poyos throughout a UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball event sport. PHOTO: UAAP

With College of Santo Tomas not having two cogs that helped in a silver medal end final season, the Tigresses are going to trip a brand new 1-2 punch—and would want a number of others to step up—for the remainder of Season 87 of the UAAP girls’s volleyball event.

That wasn’t extra evident on Saturday when Reg Jurado and Angge Poyos mixed for 43 factors in a 26-28, 25-22, 25-23, 25-15 nipping of College of the East that had the Tigresses growling loudly as soon as once more at FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan Metropolis.

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The victory allowed the Tigresses to rebound from their season-debut loss, a four-setter to Far Jap final week, with Jurado the offensive spearhead in opposition to the Girl Warriors.

“We actually labored laborious for this win, to not provide you with the lapses we had [in our first game],” the lefty Jurado mentioned in Filipino. “We have to play effectively individually to be able to plug the holes now we have.”

Confidence booster

Jonna Perdido and Xyza Gula, who had a number of defining moments final season, are out due to knee accidents, and the Tigresses misplaced one other participant, Kyla Cordora, to an ankle sprain within the second set.

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“They’ve such large roles on our workforce,” Poyos, final yr’s prime rookie, mentioned in Filipino, referring to Perdido and Gula. “Which means all of us must step up and it will likely be all of us—the rookies and veterans alike—who would want to try this.”

It was a win the Tigresses desperately wanted since they are going to be clashing with archrival La Salle on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Enviornment, and an effort that’s quick than what they got here up with in opposition to the Girl Warriors won’t do the job reverse the Girl Spikers.

Jurado’s output was constructed round 18 kills and she or he and Poyos bought the help they wanted from towering rookie Marga Altea, who contributed 10 factors.

“We all know that La Salle will probably be getting ready laborious for us,” Poyos, whose brightest moments got here final yr when the Tigresses conquered the Girl Spikers in a gripping semifinal collection, added. “However we may also put together laborious for them.”

“We’ve two days to try this and we’ll give it our all.”

Cassie Carballo had 19 glorious units, whereas captain Detdet Pepito protected the ground with 16 digs and 14 glorious receptions for the Tigresses.

“We noticed all our lapses within the [Far Eastern game] and labored laborious to handle these,” deputy coach Yuri Fernandez mentioned, additionally in Filipino. “We’ve to enhance on our communication and join [with each other]instantly. That was our largest downside in opposition to FEU.”

The Tigresses had been dragged into a decent first three units however left little doubt within the fourth after they opened up with a 10-3 lead.