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Saturday, July 26, 2014

La Salle maintains hold atop UAAP women's basketball

UAAP women's basketball standings:

DLSU 3-0
NU 2-0
ADMU 2-1
UE 1-1
UST, Adamson & FEU 1-2
UP 0-3

Season 76 women's basketball champions La Salle continue their winning form into Season 77 with a couple more victories this week at the Blue Eagle Gym.

The Lady Archers bested the Adamson Lady Falcons, 50-42 last Saturday. Afterwards, they manhandled the University of the Philippines Lady Maroons, 66-31, on Thursday.

Overcoming a slow start that saw them only scoring five points in the first ten minutes, DLSU answered by almost tripling that output in the next period. Ana Castilio led the charge by scoring all eight of her points in the quarter, matching the Lady Falcons' output as a team in the period. Camille Claro and Trisha Piatos combined to score all 15 of their points in the second half to preserve the win.

In contrast to their struggles on Thursday, La Salle had an easier time against winless UP, opening a 17-7 lead and cruising to a 66-31 blowout. Alyanna Ong and Steph Vergara combined to score 21 markers to ensure the defending champions are spotless after three games.

The Lady Falcons did bounce back from their loss to DLSU on Saturday with a narrow 48-47 victory over Far Eastern University.

Ana Valenzona missed what would have been the game-winning triple for the Lady Tamaraws with 3 seconds left to give Adamson their first win of the season. They had taken the lead with 44 seconds remaining in the game, thanks to a couple of free throws from Jingky Balasta that turned out to be the final points of the match. The Lady Falcons stifled FEU's offense, limiting them to just seven points in the final ten minutes to send them into a back-to-back tailspin this week.

FEU had previously lost to Ateneo, 58-55 on Saturday, giving the Lady Eagles their second win of the season, already surpassing last season's total. The Lady Tamaraws also had a similar disappointing performance in the final period, allowing Ateneo to score 23 points while only mustering 12 of their own.

Danica Jose contributed 22 points and 13 rebounds, while Ther Aseron added 14 of her own.

Unfortunately for the ladies of Erika Dy, they were unable to join La Salle atop the standings, falling late to UST, 55-54. The Tigresses relied on Mariella Isanan's game-winner with 15.7 seconds remaining to snatch their first victory of the season, after Sara Bo-ot missed what would have been the clinching lay-up for the Lady Eagles.

The Tigresses had been close to snagging that first win earlier in the week, but they fell short against National University, 62-60. The Lady Bulldogs could have joined the defending champions on top of the leaderboard, but a slippery court forced their match against the University of the East to be called off.

The next set of matches will take place on July 27 at the Blue Eagle Gym:

9am - UST vs FEU
11am - NU vs Ateneo
1pm - La Salle vs UE
3pm - UP vs Adamson

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