Weekend # 5 - Part 1

UAAP Women's Volleyball Tourtnament

2nd Round

February 4, Saturday

Arena

Lady Falcons Sweep Lady Warriors

[25-11    25-22    27-25]

 Player-of-the-Game Sheila Pineda [#3 blue] blocks Jimberly Dizon [#3 white] !

 - One against Two - 

Sheila Pineda Attacks !

 - Penetration -

 Mary Grace Masangkay [#1] sets up Sheisa Nebrida.

Warriors and Falcons joust.

  Sheisa Nebrida [#5] "jack knifes" one in for the Lady Warriors. 

 - Backs against the wall -

Grace Masangkay makes sure the Warriors understand 

what they have to do to take down the Falcons.

 POW !!  That's veteran Pau Soriano scoring for Adamson

Sheila Pineda - Player-of-the-Game -  Again ?

Bea Coronel - Courtside Reporting -  Again ?

Why Not ??

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Defending Champion Lady Archers Handily Win Over lady Maroons

[25-10    25-8    25-18]

 - Remembering Ma-an Panganiban -

- See You At The Net -

- Maroons Arylle Magtalas [#6] and Joyce Palad [#7] versus

Archers Ara Galang [#10] and Abigail Marano [#2] -

[above & below]

  - Swoosh !! -

 Archer Ara Galang [#10] sends a message [via air].

[above & below]

 This time, Ara Galang [#10] is blocked by Joyce Palad [#7]
and Ana Maria Del Mundo [#11].

 Young libero Rochell Sison [Melissa Gohing's possible successor]

 takes one for the team.

 Pauline Genido [#8] streches to block a Lady Archer.

 - Fast and Furious -

Cha Cruz penetrates the UP phalanx of Pauline Genido [#8]
and Ana Maria Del Mundo [#11].

- A Cut Above The Rest -

Cha C - C - C - C - CRUZ !!! 

Another loss for the Lady Maroons - another win for the Lady Archers -

So What's New ?

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- Following Feats -

 

Two UAAP Men's Football Matches and

Two UAAP Women's Football Matches and

A Dream Game --> all taken in one Sunday

plus a few RIFA matches

plus the usual random non-sports post

Second of February

UAAP Baseball Tournamanet

2nd Round

February 2, Thursday

Rizal Memorial

Adamson Falcons Upsets Ateneo, Deal Blue Eagles Loss # 1

[14-11]

My Bad a-gain !!  This time I com ein late for the AdU-ADM baseball match and ctach only the last few minutes of the Falcons' upset of the Eagles.  Here are four of the shots I manage to take  [that are blogworthy enough].

 - Mud On Their Wings -

Adamson's 14-11 victory shatters Ateneo's dream of a sweep of the elims.

Green Archers Win Over the Defending Champion UST Tigers

A few match photos follow:

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First of February

UAAP Women's Volleyball Tournament

February 1, Wednesday

Arena


Lady Tigers Over Lady Warriors in Three Straight Sets
[25-21    25-15    25-16] 

Arrived too late to catch the UST-UE match [so, no game pics here] but managed to capture the Lady Tigresse in civies, with the blessing of Coaches Odgie Mamon and Vit Ponce de Leon.  [They, the Tigresses were set to proceed altogether to the UP Campus Chapel, after the game, to pay their respects to Ma-an Panganiban who passed away a few days previous.] 

Five JPEGs, of the Tigresses in civies, follow:

 - Charming ! -

[These 5 pics have actually been posted in a previous entry
- anyway no harm done reposting them]

Lady Falcons Take Down the Lady Tamaraws in Four Sets

25-8     25-18     21-25     25-19

A few photos w/ and w/o captions:

 Mae Zapanta is blocked by Lady Tams Roxas and Eulalio.

[above and below]

 - Signed -

 - Sealed -

 - by Lady Falcon Mae Zapanta -

 - Fear Us Falcons -

 - True Sportsmanship -

 - Group Hug -

Yup, that's the Player-of-the-Game, Shiela Pineda, being interviewed by 

looker Bea Coronel - currently enrolled at UP {and residing about 100 paces [there is a landscaped open area and road between our houses]

 behind the where I stay,  in Sucat}.

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Astig At Puso

Astig Talaga ang Talk & Text

Pero Iba Pa Rin Ang Pusong Powerade

Weeks ago I finished my first ever coverage of a PBA Conference - The Philippine Cup.  Course, UAAP will always be my favorite but somewhere along the way, after about a month or two shooting the Philippine Cup, I also got to like the PBA.  I had a favorite team, favorite players, and  a team that I got to dislike [not hate] very much, and one player who I  got to hate because of his style of play.  Suffice it to say,  had a few favorite moments captured digitally.

too.

But looking back at the Finals Series where Talk & Text beat Powerade in 5 matches - What I can say is that - it was all good.  The Texters desrved to win.  They had awesome firepower in the persons of Fonacier, Castro, Peek, de Ocampo, they had great defensive smarts provided by Reyes [ he had 10 steals in game #5].  They had a great coach in Chot Reyes - They had experience too.  And as everybody expected they handily won over the Powerade Tigers.  

Maybe, if it was B-Meg or Rain or Shine vs the Texters - a more evenly matched Championship Series might have been fought. But - In the Playoffs - Bottom-seed Powerade eliminated [and surprised everybody] by eliminating the Top-seed, highly favored B-Meg Llamados in 2 straight wins [by that time I had already been a Powerade fan].  Then came the Best-of-Seven Semis between Rain or Shine and Powerade, where again, the Tigers overachieved and took down the favored Elasto Painters in seven excrutiating matches.

I'm sure losing to the Texters, and settling for Runner-Up, in that Game # 5 was tough on the Tigers, but in the first place, they should have been beat by B-Meg way back in the playoffs  and/or at least been eventually knocked out by Rain or Shine - but they managed to make it to the Finals to face a far more superior team.

And as my title goes - Astiga Talaga ang TnT - pero - 

Iba Pa Rin Talaga ang

 Pusong Powerade.

This image [which is how I choose to remember the Philippine Cup,] taken after Powerade knocked out B-Meg last Dec.18, 2011]will always be a favorite.

For me, those who have overachieved way beyond their limits will always be the true champions.

{The present PBA Conference is not on my to-do list - The UAAP Football, Volleyball and Baseball Tournaments [plus other out-of-town shoots] are on my plate right now - but I'll eventually return to the PBA in due time}

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