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Exclusive: PH women’s volleyball team gets swept by Thailand in friendly
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Philippine women’s volleyball team in the 31st SEA Games. AVC PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine women’s volleyball team got schooled by Thailand, 13-25, 10-25, 16-25, in their international friendly on Saturday at San Juan Arena.
The reigning Southeast Asian Games champion hardly broke a sweat in dominating the Filipino Spikers in an hour and 16 minutes in the event dubbed the Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) International Challenge.
Pimpichaya Kokram led the Thais with 15 points, hitting 13 of her 20 spike attempts. Sasipapron Janthawisut delivered 13 points from 12 attacks.
Final: Thailand sweeps the Philippine women’s volleyball team, 25-13, 25-10, 25-16, in their international friendly. | @LanceAgcaoilINQ pic.twitter.com/n8MF6zYJ1w
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Ajcharaporn Kongyot only saw action in the first and third sets but chipped in eight points, while star spiker Chatchu-on Moksri played sparingly in the second set and finished with seven markers.
Kokram and Moksri took turns in dealing the damage to the Philippines in the second set, where they led as many as 14, 19-5, en route to a two-set lead.
The national team kept Thailand within striking distance in the third set, 12-9. But Kokram propelled the visiting squad to score seven of the next eight points for a 19-10 spread and never looked back to finish their exhibition game before their stint in the Volleyball Nations League Week 2.
Thailand, which won three of its four matches in Week 1, battles Canada on Tuesday at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Aby Marano led the national team with six points. Dell Palomata chimed in with five points, while Jema Galanza, Kat Tolentino and setter Kyle Negrito added three each.
Galanza also helped out the team in floor defense with 13 excellent receptions and six digs.
The Philippines will have another friendly match against Japan on Sunday at 4 p.m.
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It’s almost 30 years since a Blues team came back to win a State of Origin series after losing the opener in Sydney, but two stars of that memorable NSW team of 1994 have laid down a blueprint for Brad Fittler’s men to follow.
Brilliant fullback Tim Brasher and giant back-rower Paul Sironen admitted things looked bleak for the Blues when Mark Coyne scored the famous last-minute try to win the Queenslanders an epic Game One that series.
“I know how this team feels – because it’s the same way we felt back in ’94,” Sironen, now a member of the Blues’ management team, told Wide World of Sports from Perth.
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“When you have game one at home you just have to win it – and we blew it.
“We didn’t play as well as we could have and we didn’t execute the way we trained and we knew we were really going to be up against it for the rest of the series.
“But what we did was turn that to our advantage by using that frustration, disappointment and anger at ourselves to spur us on.
“We levelled the series in Melbourne and it then all came down to the decider in Brisbane.”
Brasher has vivid memories of the lead-up to the all-important third match at Lang Park.
“Everyone was telling us about Lang Park being the cauldron and how we would cop it up there and I must admit I wasn’t all that confident in the week leading up to the game,” Brasher said.
“But then on game night, as our team bus went down Caxton Street and they came out of the pub and shook the bus and threw bottles at us, I think that actually did us a favour.
“It galvanised us, gave us a siege mentality and we were determined to go all the way.”
The Blues won the decider 27-12, with a young Brad Fittler playing in the centres.
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Magnolia’s Jio Jalalon (second from right) splits the Phoenix defense to finish in double figures. —PBA IMAGES
Magnolia did the math and figured a few people short did not exactly mean a disadvantage in manpower.
“Coach told us that there are only five of us on the floor at a time, so it doesn’t matter if we’re missing some of our key players,” said veteran playmaker Mark Barroca, who keyed a 95-77 rout of Phoenix on Friday in the PBA Philippine Cup at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.
“As long as the five on the floor is solid, we’ll be fine,” added Barroca, who finished with 21 points, five rebounds and six assists to help the Hotshots fill the void left by Paul Lee and Calvin Abueva.
Magnolia also drew double-digit outings from Aris Dionisio, Jio Jalalon, Jackson Corpuz and Ian Sangalang to bury the Fuel Masters in holes as deep as 27 points on the way to rising to 3-3 (win-loss).
And that was exactly what the doctor ordered, according to Magnolia head coach Chito Victolero.
“We talked about it before the game—that we’re now in the middle of the tournament,” he said. “It’s time to level up our game, level up our execution, our being smart. That’s why we had a good start.”
Magnolia—finalist of last year’s all-Filipino conference—came out the gates hard, using an 11-0 run to open the contest and take the wind out of Phoenix’s sails early despite the absence of its key starters. Lee was out of the game due to a back problem while Abueva was serving his one-game suspension for his behavior in a victory over Barangay Ginebra last week.
Also out for the Hotshots was backup guard Jerrick Ahanmisi.
“Hopefully, before the elimination round ends, we are able to be complete. That’s only going to improve our run,” said Victolero.
Javee Mocon led Phoenix with 19 points while Sean Manganti added 11 as the Fuel Masters dropped to 2-3.
Later in the night, Barangay Ginebra got 20 points and 10 rebounds from Christian Standhardinger to stop San Miguel Beer, 75-72.
The Gin Kings hiked their record to 4-1 while dealing the Beermen their first loss in four games this conference.
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