Smart-Army, Generika disputes the last half-place

Smart-Army, Generika fight the last half-berth

(The Philippine Star) – July 19, 2018 – 12:00 am

MANILA, Philippines – Smart-Army and Generika-Ayala compete for the remaining semifinal spot tonight in the Chooks to Go-Philippine Superliga Invitational Conference at the Filoil Flying V Center.

Gametime is at 7 pm . with the Lifesavers and Giga Hitters to make a breakthrough in the next stage, where the outright semi-finalist Petron is waiting.

Attackers Patty Orendain, Bang Pineda and Fiola Ceballos, Libero Kat Arado and middle blockers Angeli Araneta and Ria Meneses head the Lifesavers against the equally determined team of veterans of the Ging Balse- Army Pabayo, Joanne Bunag and Nene Bautista and Dimdim of the University of Santo Tomas Pacres, Tin Francisco, Caitlyn Viray and Alina Bicar.

"We will have a lot of adjustments in attack because our players are not so big, but in terms of defense, we will not have any problem because it has been our advantage for our past victories," he said. said Sherwin Meneses, coach of Generika, whose team has not yet reached the last 4 since his return in 2016.

For their part, the Giga Hitters are more motivated to show that they are the only ones who have been able to compete. They are real.From a winless conference at the previous Grand Prix, the beautiful Air Force have changed things and won three of their four games in the preliminaries for

"Reaching the quarterfinals is important to us in the sense that Smart won zero last time, but we have to maintain our performance as we go to the quarterfinals of today. face a more difficult and exciting battle ", ad clared the & # 39; Smart Kungfu Reyes coach. "We do not just carry the name of Smart, we also parade the army team as well as the young players of the UST.We must assume full responsibility for bring these names, whatever the result, we'll see how far we go, "he added.

Opening of the day's hostilities are the battle for the ninth between Cocolife and the University of East-Cherrylume at 2 pm. and the duel for number 7 between Foton and the University of the Philippines-United Auctioneers at 4:15 pm

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