NU Lady Bulldogs’ Karl Pingol (20) against Adamson Lady Falcons in the UAAP Season 85 Women’s Basketball Tournament. UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines – National University bounced back from its first loss in 9 years to claim the No. 1 seed, while La Salle gained momentum to beat the final two on Saturday before the Basketball Finals female UAAP Season 85 at Smart Araneta Colosseum.
Lick the back wound NU’s 108-match winning streak has been broken, Karl Pingol and Tin Cayabyab took their team to beat Adamson who was also running 101-55 to finish at the top of the standings with a 13-1 record.
Pingol helped Lady Bulldogs with 12 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists. Cayabyab scored 11 points and four tables. Princess Fabruada and Camille Clarin had 10 points, while Annick Edimo Tiky added 9 points, 6 bounces and 4 steals.
“We talked about end of half, end of half, end of game strong, which obviously we lost in the last game,” NU coach Aris Dimaunahan said. know after his team took a 48-man lead in the third inning, 79-31.
“The real challenge today is how well we can finish the knockout round, if we can finish this convincingly. I think we did better today than the last time we played.”
In the first Traditional Finals of women’s basketball in 9 years, NU twice defeated No. 4 Ateneo, who lost to the University of the Philippines with a score of 84-57 and finished with a score of 7-7. in previous eliminated matches.
“We will prepare against Ateneo. We’ll be looking at some of the games they’ve got and our games with them,” Dimaunahan said as they open their Finals campaign next week.
“It will be an interesting matchup with their two big boys, with their imports, and Kacey Dela Rosa with their defenders (Jhazmin) Joson and (Junize) Calago. Do not leave on the iron (LJ) Miranda).
Adamson finished the season in sixth place with a score of 5-9. Novie Ornopia led the Lady Falcons with 14 points, while Victoria Adeshina added 8 points and 7 rebounds.
Meanwhile, La Salle, which finished 12-2 with eight consecutive wins, including a big win over NU, faced the third-placed team of the University of Santo Tomas (11-3) in the tournament. Finals where both teams finished their knockout stages with high scores.
Coach Cholo Villanueva was absent from the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball Tournament, Lee Sario scored 18 points while Bettina Binaohan scored twice with 14 points and 17 rebounds in La Salle’s overwhelming 66-41 win before The University of the East is indistinguishable.
Ameng Torres also made an important contribution to the Lady Archers with 8 points and 7 rebounds, while Fina Niantcho Tchuido, who had The suspension was canceled just hours before the match got four points and 13 goals to take the Lady Red Warriors to the 0-14 campaign.
“Of course, UST is a tough team to play,” said La Salle assistant coach JR Aquino. “We lost to them in the first round. We beat them in game two so we had to adjust because we didn’t want them to be forced to play game two… Starting from game one, we wanted to win this game.”
UST defeated Far Eastern University 77-65, with Rocel Dionisio leading the Tigresses with 15 points and 13 rebounds and Eka Soriano taking 14 points, seven goals, four assists and one block.
Tacky Tacatac contributed 10 points, 7 bounces, 6 assists, 4 steals and 1 save, while Agatha Bron also scored 10 points.
“There is no rest for us. Tomorrow we will still practice and watch the game at La Salle,” said UST coach Haydee Ong. “We need to play La Salle twice to get to the final. We have to be ready to deal with them.”
The FEU ended the season with six consecutive losses with a 3-11 record in seventh place despite the efforts of Camille Taguiam, who had 27 points, 5 assists, 5 steals and 4 rebounds.
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