UP Preventing Maroons have a good time their UAAP Season 87 girls’s badminton title. –UAAP PHOTO
College of the Philippines captured a long-awaited UAAP girls’s badminton crown after dethroning Ateneo with a decisive 3-1 victory within the Season 87 Ultimate on Wednesday on the Rizal Memorial Badminton Corridor in Manila.
This title marked the Preventing Maroons’ tenth championship within the league, solidifying their standing because the winningest squad within the sport.
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Anthea Gonzalez showcased her confidence, contributing two vital wins that propelled UP to its first title since their three-peat from Seasons 77 to 79.
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Gonzalez, who was later named Most Invaluable Participant, started the match with a commanding efficiency, defeating Maxene Olango, 21-5, 21-7.
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She then teamed up together with her senior, Kimberly Lao, to safe the championship by overcoming Olango and Feeby Ferrer in a hard-fought doubles match, ending 21-19, 21-19.
“All of us sacrificed to attain this championship—the coaches, the gamers. Everybody put their coronary heart into getting this title, particularly because it’s been some time since we final received. Everybody labored laborious for this, so perhaps that is their reward,” stated first-year UP head coach Ariel Magnaye.
Ateneo’s reigning MVP, Mika De Guzman, struck first for the Blue Eagles, battling by a grueling 97-minute match towards fellow thirty second SEA Video games bronze medalist Susmita Ramos, finally successful 18-21, 21-8, 23-21.
Ateneo Blue Eagles wound up first runner up in UAAP Season 87 girls’s badminton. –UAAP PHOTO
Nonetheless, this marked the final hurrah for Ateneo’s five-peat bid, as Ramos bounced again within the doubles match.
Ramos, who had been undefeated in singles previous to this closing, ensured that she and her accomplice Dianne Libaton protected their good doubles report.
The junior-rookie duo fended off De Guzman and Althea Ocampo, 21-13, 21-19, organising the clinching victory for UP.
“The consistency and the bond they’ve constructed by what they do—if that’s nonetheless there, I feel they’ll win it once more subsequent season. It’s totally different now that their relationship has develop into stronger, actually strong,” stated Magnaye, a former champion himself with each the College of Santo Tomas and Nationwide College, as he mirrored on his workforce’s probabilities of going back-to-back.
In particular person accolades, Althea Ocampo of Ateneo was named Rookie of the 12 months within the girls’s division, whereas Lanz Zafra of NU was awarded MVP within the males’s division, with UP’s Shan Clar acknowledged as the highest rookie.
In the meantime, the NU Woman Bulldogs captured their third consecutive bronze medal after the pandemic, defeating College of Santo Tomas 3-0.
Jeya Pinlac and Andrian Songcuan accomplished their season unscathed, overcoming UST seniors Rhafi Anne Santos and Jennifer Saladaga, 18-21, 21-8, 21-10.
Ysabel Amora and Karyll Rio additionally delivered tight wins within the singles rubbers, with Amora outlasting Katrina Vitangcol, 21-19, 21-15, whereas Rio fended off Reshane Nicor, 21-19, 21-16.
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The Woman Shuttlers concluded their season in fourth place.
