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UAAP Season 87 volleyball tournament FINALS SCHEDULE
Game 2 – May 14, Wednesday – Mall of Asia Arena
- 12:30pm – men’s awarding ceremony
- 1pm – NU Bulldogs vs FEU Tamaraws –
- 4:30pm – Women’s Awarding Ceremony
- 5pm -La Salle Lady Spikers vs NU Lady Bulldogs – separate tickets
NU Lady Bulldogs’ Bella Belen during a UAAP Season 87 women’s volleyball Finals game against La Salle Lady Spikers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — National University star Bella Belen won her third MVP in her final UAAP playing year while Adamson’s Shaina Nitura was the runaway Season 87 Rookie of the Year after a record-breaking debut.
Belen has joined an elite club as a three-time MVP winner along with the likes of Alyssa Valdez of Ateneo from Seasons 76 to 78 and Far Eastern University’s Monica Aleta from 2000 to 2002.
The fourth-year Lady Bulldog garnered 96.23 Statistical Points, way ahead of runner-up Nitura, who had 74.26 SPs to become Adamson’s first Rookie of the Year in the women’s volleyball Final Four era.
NU libero Shaira Jardio during Game 1 of the UAAP Season 87 women’s volleyball Finals against La Salle Lady Spikers.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Shaira Jardio has no doubt National University can complete a historic repeat as it goes for a series sweep against La Salle in Game 2 of the UAAP Season 87 women’s volleyball Finals on Wednesday.
The game will be played at Mall of Asia Arena, where the Lady Bulldogs captured their first two titles in the past three years.
With Bella Belen and Vange Alinsug doing the damage in offense, Jardio played the x-factor with her steady floor defense of 28 excellent receptions and 18 excellent digs to take Game 1 from La Salle, 25-17, 25-21, 13-25, 25-17, on Sunday in front of 15,192 fans at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
NU Bulldogs during Game 1 of the UAAP Season 87 men’s volleyball Finals against FEU Tamaraws.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Five-peat-seeking National University gave Far Eastern University its flowers after pulling off a come-from-behind win in five sets in Game 1.
The Bulldogs, though, vowed to live another day and force a rubber match in the UAAP Season 87 men’s volleyball Finals on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Arena.
NU blew a 2-1 match advantage as FEU unleashed a spirited comeback led by main scorer Dryx Saavedra and rookie Amet Bituin to inch a win closer from ending its opponents’ four-year title reign with a 22-25, 25-22, 13-25, 25-22, 15-13 win on Sunday before an ecstatic crowd of 5,405 at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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