Andrada flaunts Tay Tung teamwork on solution to nationwide finals

Bacolod Tay Tung’s Nicole Getino (left) hammers a degree off a set by Marishka Alexandria Andrada (No. 13). —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Marishka Alexandria Andrada doesn’t discuss herself after a championship win.

Ask the Bacolod Tay Tung setter in regards to the sweep that simply made her group the most effective within the Visayas and she or he’ll discuss everybody else within the constructing—her coaches, her teammates, her supervisor, her group—besides herself.

“With out my teammates, we wouldn’t have gained this championship,” she stated, nonetheless catching her breath after Tay Tung dispatched Casiano Gerona Nationwide Excessive Faculty within the NGVL Visayas Regional Finals on March 31.

It’s a refreshing departure from the present sports activities tradition, the place athletes construct up their particular person manufacturers by means of self-promotion. However Andrada wasn’t out to merely downplay her function as an indication of humility.

She was stating a reality.

Casiano Gerona, the gritty Cebu champion, jumped the gun on Tay Tung proper out of the gates, making the most of an erstwhile porous protection and making the Thunderbolts’ work for each level early within the first set.

However the house squad flipped the swap later within the set with Andrada, who was additionally named because the event’s greatest setter, discovering her hitters in time to recuperate en path to a sweep within the championship match, 25-21, 25-14, 25-18.

Behind Andrada’s 25 wonderful units, the Thunderbolts’ offense hummed to life. Center blocker Zelver Banguiao paced the Thunderbolts with 17 factors off 11 kills, 4 blocks and two aces, whereas group captain Memielle Letran chipped in 15 factors (10 kills, two blocks, three aces). Center blocker Nicole Getino added 12 factors (seven kills, 4 blocks and an ace).

“By means of this league, we’ve actually discovered rather a lot,” Letran stated. “The worth of laborious work and cooperation has introduced us to the championship match.”

Homage to coaches

Workforce captain Veneice Mabida of Casiano Gerona led her facet with 17 factors off 14 kills, a block and two aces and took house greatest open spiker honors. Setter Gilyn Colapano made 11 wonderful units and added two aces.

After the match, Andrada thanked group supervisor Boy Montalbo, the Tay Tung educational group and the supporters who stuffed The Hangar’s rafters.

And he or she additionally paid homage to the group’s teaching employees.

“Our coaches have been our academics each inside and out of doors the court docket, not solely educating us volleyball but additionally lifelong classes,” she stated

The Regional Finals introduced eight of the Visayas’ greatest U16 volleyball squads to Bacolod from March 28 to March 31, all of them having earned their seats by means of qualifying tournaments in Cebu and Bacolod the month earlier than.

Tay Tung now advances to the NGVL Nationwide Finals, which can happen from Might 3 to Might 7 at San Juan, that includes the highest U16 groups not simply from the nation however from overseas as nicely.