Philippines destroys Cambodia in women’s volleyball opener
Philippine girls’s volleyball workforce in SEA Video games 2023. –PNVF PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine girls’s volleyball workforce confirmed no mercy because it blasted Southeast Asian Video games first-timer Cambodia with a masterful 25-5, 25-5, 25-5 rout to open its Group B marketing campaign on Tuesday at Indoor Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh.
Crew captain Alyssa Valdez, who remains to be recovering from a proper knee harm, didn’t play however her Creamline teammates Jema Galanza and Tots Carlos shaped a potent combo with nationwide workforce mainstay and Chery Tiggo’s MVP Mylene Paat to high school the house squad.
As host of the thirty second version of SEA Video games, Cambodia fielded a girls’s volleyball workforce for the primary time. It solely scored 4 out of their 15 factors with 11 coming from the visiting squad’s errors.
Center blockers Dell Palomata and Cherry Nunag additionally shone as returning setter Jia De Guzman offered the good performs.
The Filipino followers on the venue chanted “Alyssa! Alyssa” in the course of the match however three-time Premier Volleyball League Carlos and Galanza stepped up in her absence.
The true take a look at awaits the Philippines when it faces reigning silver medalist Vietnam, which swept Singapore, 25-13, 25-8, 25-7, earlier, on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
The ladies’s nationwide workforce, which is eyeing to finish an 18-year medal drought, dominated its opponent from the get-go with Cambodia getting all of its 5 factors from the Philippines’ errors — two every from Paat and Palomata and a miscue from Carlos.
Cambodia nationwide workforce in its SEA Video games volleyball debut.
The nationals continued to punish the house workforce within the second set however the Cambodians scored their first level within the SEA Video games girls’s volleyball after Horm Ravy nailed an ace to tie the body at 2-all.
Nonetheless, Ravy dedicated a service error that ignited the Filipino Spikers’ 11 straight factors capped by Carlos’ two consecutive kills for a 13-2 unfold.
Phay Makara drilled Cambodia’s first assault level, profitable a joust over Paat within the biennial meet to cease the run earlier than the Philippines scored 11 of the following 12 factors capped by De Guzman’s 1-2 play to achieve set level, 24-4.
Vi Sineut blocked Nunag to save lots of some extent however a service error from Soeu Molika simply gave the two-set benefit to the guests.
Nationwide workforce coach Jorge Souza de Brito fielded Michele Gumabao, Kat Tolentino, Chai Troncoso, and setter Gel Cayuna within the third set because the quartet was additionally instrumental in sealing the lopsided win with their very own contributions within the lone body they performed.
Cambodia fell to the brink of elimination, becoming a member of Singapore with a 0-1 report.
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