The high -speed PLDT strikers celebrate the victory of the PVL championship on Tower. –Marlo Cueto / Inquirer.net
PLDT is no longer the child of pvl sorrow, although high -speed strikers seem to stay this way on Sunday evening.
High-speed strikers were dragged towards the real limit of Chery Tiggo before surviving the crossings, 25-17, 25-17, 19-25, 24-26, 15-8, to capture the PVL championship on Tour Sunday in front of 11,055 fans of Mall of Asia Arena.
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PLDT was on the verge of another sorrow after blowing an advance in two sets, before Savi Davison and Mika Reyes put a regrouping while the high-speed strikers won their first title in their only passage from the PVL final on the force of a 9-4 start to the fifth set.
Reyes had his moments at the clutch, the last PLDT new PLDT championship point that even a determined team of Chery Tiggo was not near the revision.
Reyes, who was then appointed MVP of the final, triggered his career in a career of 20 points out of 13 striking attacks and seven blocks, before the return of Kianna Dy nailed the liaison block of the championship on Cess Robles.
Davison flashed deadly with a 23-point summit, which came to the heels of an explosion of 34 points which ended a return in five sets to Creamline in the semi-final with direct elimination last week.
It was the very first PVL championship of the franchise since he participated in 2021, and it was as sweet as possible when the team withdrew it with Davison and some of the old faces of the team that count Reyes and Majoy Baron.
Dy and Baron both finished with 13 points, with Baron’s counting comprising six blocks.
Constant defense
Kath Arado continued to be the heart and soul of Pldt with her leadership and regular defense on the ground while she finished with 29 excavations and 13 excellent receptions, while Kim Fajardo showed her creation of vintage and brilliant games with 25 excellent sets.
PLDT finished a scan of eight tournament games, as coach Rald Ricafort stressed that there is no pre-season tournament for them. And win this on Tour, which visited eight provinces, means everything.
High-speed strikers have another title in the conference on the invitation from Thursday at Philsports Arena, where they will face Chery Tiggo again and the semi-finalists Creamline and Cigal as well as the Japanese teams on Kurashiki Ablaze and Kobe Shinwa University.
Chery Tiggo finished with a silver medal in his first PVL final since the open conference of 2021 inside the bubble in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, where he won the first title never set up.
Galang had 22 points and eight excavations, while Robles had 12 points.
Alyssa Valdez and Creamline Cool Smashers learned a lot by finishing third and said they will take these lessons in the invitation conference next week.
Champs always learns
Creamline Cool Smashers finishes with the bronze medal in the PVL tour. –Marlo Cueto / Inquirer.net
Valdez delivered 12 points, highlighted by four blocks, while Creamline destroyed Cigal 25-17, 29-27, 25-17 to capture the bronze medal.
The Cool Smashers have made a podium for the 18th consecutive time since it joined the PVL in 2017, winning their fourth bronze to add to their 10 championships.
As they seek to return to the top of the invitations, the MVP three times from the conference said they would bring all the lessons of their difficult losses, including a collapse of five sets in Pldt in the semi-finals.
“Honestly, the losses. We have really learned a lot from them,” said Valdez to Inquirer in Philippin. “The five sets defeat against PLDT, the hetero -up against cignal sets (in the preliminaries). Those who injured. These are difficult games. But we will use these experiences to harden us.
“I hope we can also bring the confidence that we built during this tour in the next games. This is what we bring with us.”
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