* UAAP 74 Beach Volley Finals Game 1: ADMU vs UST

Game 1 of the UAAP 74 Beach Volleyball Finals, it's the first actually that there are three games compared to the previous years that there are only one game in the finals.

UST def ADMU 21-16, 18-21, 15 - 9 | Sept. 17, 2011

* UAAP 74 Beach Volley Final Four: ADMU vs Adamson

The one who will win this game will battle UST in the Finals. It was a close and exciting game between the two schools but Ateneo dominated and won the game 14-21, 21-18, 16-14.

Alyssa Valdez of Ateneo

Alyssa Valdez and Pau Soriano

Mae Tajima and Sarah Cruz of ADMU watching the game

Victory

* UAAP 74 Beach Volley: ADMU vs DLSU

It's day 2 of the UAAP Season 74 Beach Volleyball Tournament, I wasn;t able to watch the opening because of the bad weather. Day 2 is kinda better but the weather do change from time to time (Rainy and Sunny).

DLSU's line up this season is the younger sister of Cha Cruz which is Camille Cruz, Michelle Gumabao and Abigail Marano and for Ateneo it's Allyzza Valdez, Bea Tan and Fille Cainglet.

Ateneo won the first set 21-19 and DLSU bounced back on the 2nd set 19-21. ADMU finished the 3rd set 15-2 winning the game.

more photos here

* DLSU Lady Spikers finishing 2nd in the UAAP 73 Beach Volley

The Lady Spikers consist of Charleen Cruz, Amanda Villanueva and Mikaela Esperanza who finished 3rd place last year (with Joanne Sy and Jacq Alarca) ended 2nd for the 2010 UAAP Season 73 beach volley tournament held at UE Caloocan Campus.

Cha Cruz and Amanda Villanueva

Entering the semis in 4th place the Lady Spikers first game is againts the 3rd seeded UST team. DLSU won 21-19, 8-21, 15-9 then FEU 21-14, 18-21, 16-14 to go battle the defending champions Adamson University.

The Lady Falcons dominated both sets 17-21, 14-21 in the finals. Lady Spikers may felt the stressed already playing 3 games in 2 hours and also with the heat of the sun. Better luck next year and wish to finish as number 1.

* UAAP 73 Beach Volleyball [Day 1]

My blog is super late, anyways I arrived late and wasn't able to watch the opening match between DLSU and Adamson but Adamson won the game.

Second game is between NU and UE where UE won.

Sharah So of ADMU

Third game is between Ateneo and UP, where Asia Urquico and Sharah So of Ateneo won against UP.

Last game for the women's division is between UST and FEU. UST dominated the 1st set and FEU got the momentum and won the second and third set. It was an excited match and Shaira Gonzales and Shedd dela Pena did not give up and made an upset against their opponent.

* UAAP 72 Beach Volley Adamson beats FEU and winning the Title

The UAAP 72 Beach Volleyball Champions (Adamson University)

Paulina Soriano, Leslie Ann Gata and Angela Benting

Sweeping the eliminations the Adamson Lady Falcons (Angela Benting, Leslie Ann Gata and Paulina Soriano) won the the 2009 UAAP 72nd Women's Beach Volleyball Tournament beating the FEU Lady Tammaraws (Camille Abanto and Marigail Tolentino).

FEU beats DLSU prior to the championship game, gaved a good fight against the Adamson team. Adamson eliminates the same FEU tandem in the recent Nestea Beach Volley in Boracay.

Adamson won the first set taking advantage of the errors of FEU. FEU came out strong in the second round winning it and in the third round Adamson showed and proved that they would remain unbeaten in the tournament winning the game and the Championship.

* UAAP 72 Beach Volley DLSU [w] finished 3rd place

It was already the semi finals of the UAAP 72 Beach Volley for womens so me and a friend decided to watch the games at UE Caloocan, Woke up around 5:30am and prepared because I'm coming from Laguna, good thing it was not traffic because it's a Sunday and I arrived around 9am.

First game for the women's division was the battle of the third (DLSU) and fourth (UST) placer, Winner will move to the next game against the second placer (FEU).

DLSU started strong using their height advantage but UST fought back and later in the set DLSU had several service errors but they were able to get the win for the first set 21-17.
Second set was really for DLSU,Cha Cruz scored 4 straight with her serves that UST thought is going outside, with the help of Jacq Alarca's powerful spikes and Cha Cruz blocks they easily won the second set 21-11

DLSU moved to the next round against FEU, they are given a 15 minute break before the next game, DLSU Lady Spikers current players (Camille Cerveza, Steph Mercado, Kaye Martinez) including rookies and previous players (Saet, Datuin and Hernandez) was also watching and supporting the team.

With the momentum on their side DLSU started strong again for the first set winning it 21-9
Second set started and FEU fought back with their saves and countering DLSU's errors winning the second set 19-21

Third set was a close game but DLSU I think is already tired from the the first game and they had alot of errors on this set and FEU took advantage of it winning the set against DLSU 12-15.

Win or Lose I'm still a DLSU fan and supporter. Animo La salle, wishing you luck in the incoming games :)

* UAAP 72 Beach Volleyball | DLSU is in the final four

It's my first time to watch a beach volleyball game for the UAAP, and finally I was able to get the schedule so me and my friend went to UE Caloocan campus where the games are being held.

Where: UE Caloocan Campus
Date: September 16, 2009

When we arrived it was the game between DLSU and UST, where Cha Cruz and Jacq Alarca won two sets againts UST's Maru Batinacla and Jen Fortuno 21-15 and 21-18, despite the service errors DLSU was able to pull off the victory. With this victory DLSU is in the final four with the standing of 4-2.

Same story with the second game of DLSU for the day against NU where they used their height advantage against NU and also the hassle and saves that gaved them the victory.