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The dream finals match-up of the DLSU Lady Spikers and the Ateneo Lady Eagles, for the sixth straight year, has once again been a nightmare for the rest of the league. Six possible contenders for the crown started Season 79 with high hopes and big dreams of finally breaking the past two title holders’ grip […]

A two-week break. An two-game elimination round sweep. Their core with little to no playoff experience, let alone championship know-how. And playing a DLSU Lady Spikers team that was coming off a loss during the the defending champions’ last game of the eliminations. The odds were definitely stacked against the third seed UST Lady Tigress. […]

As the league ushers in the Lenten break, yesterday’s 25-12, 21-25, 20-25, 19-25 loss to the Ateneo Lady Eagles felt like a crucifixion of the defending champions who were swept by the Tai Bundit-led squad in similar fashion this Season 79. It was a no-bearing match on paper, but try telling that to an unconsolable […]

From the first part of the opening set to the entire second and third sets, everyone clad in green at the Filoil Flying V Center was in awe of the intensity and tenaciousness shown by the defending UAAP champions against the UP Lady Maroons. Every service ace, rally-killing spike, and demoralizing block in the 27-25, […]

Last Sunday hardly looked like the battle of the league’s number two team, the DLSU Lady Spikers, against the number three in the win-loss record, the NU Lady Bulldogs, as the defending UAAP champions continued their winning ways in the second round with a 25-21, 25-11, 15-25, 25-12 win at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Save […]