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Yes, they are a tremendous team. Yes, they are the defending champs. Yes, they have the national team coach. Yes, they are armed with the most rabid volleyball fans in the country. And yes, they just lost in the final four, losing for the fourth time in as many games to their arch rival FEU, a team who just always has their number. But do not despair volleyball fans, this is only the beginning of something great. There are two sides to every coin and I will start with this one.

UST’s unexpected fall from championship contention is good for the sport of volleyball because of a number of reasons:

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NOTE: Here’s a dedicated post for the UAAP Volleyball Season 70 team standings. This gets updated as often as the official game results come in. So you’ll need to refresh your browsers every time you visit this page.

To avoid confusion, the results here show the team rankings after 2 rounds of elimination. As you can see, we have FEU and UST both tied with the same record of 13-1 for Men’s Volleyball. While Adamson, UST, and FEU are all tied with the same record of 12-2 for Women’s Volleyball. According to the UAAP rules, play-off games were necessary to determine the final team rankings. Of course, most of you guys know what happened during the play-off matches. Here’s a recap:

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The University of Santo Tomas and Ateneo de Manila University Women’s Volleyball Teams are perhaps two of the most followed teams in the UAAP. One being followed for their height and power while one are being followed for a splendid defense and a player named Charo Soriano. In Last V-League, you would see how the support of both teams flowed as there were yellow balloons for the Espana-based team while blue paper strips to raise for the Katipunan-based team.

Incidentally, these two teams, UST and Ateneo are the two of the top three teams who competed in the recently concluded Shakey’s V-League. UST is of course the back-to-back champions while the Ateneo Lady Eagles are the third placers.

What’s missing?

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Adamson University has been waiting so long to win a women’s volleyball championship crown. NU, UP, UE, Ateneo, La Salle, UST and FEU have all won it. Now, is it there time to win the championship in probably the most dramatic UAAP Women’s Volleyball season?

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The Far Eastern University Lady Tamaraws is perhaps one of the youngest teams in the UAAP right now. Looking at their roster, majority of their players are below 19 years which includes the small but terrible Mhica Morada and the threatening rookie Shai Gonzalez who are but 17 years old. The rest of their first six lineup are mostly on their 3rd or 4th years in college. This year was supposed to be their rebuilding year since a lot of players graduated in their team. But wait, aren’t rebuilding teams supposed to be not in the top of the rankings? Hmm. Not for FEU. They’re showing to the public that even though they are a young team, they have a crack at the finals. And besides, this just goes to show how good the volleyball program of FEU is. Who would even thought that a very young demoralized FEU team from last season would come back and give it a shot again in the Finals. A lot of people predicted them to end up below 3rd place or even not to enter the UAAP Volleyball Final Four but they proved everyone wrong. This team has the makings of another dynasty-filled team with most their young players still have 2-3 more playing years from now.

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Women’s UAAP Volleyball – FEU defeated UST in 4 sets:
24-26, 25-19, 25-15, 25-20

Men’s UAAP Volleyball – FEU defeated UST in 3 sets:
25-18, 25-21, 25-18

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Check out the latest UAAP Volleyball Team Standings. After 2 rounds of volleyball action during the Eliminations, we now have the Final Four. At least we know who are the top four teams for Men’s and Women’s UAAP Volleyball. But since we have some teams that are tied in the rankings, play-off games are necessary to determine the final rankings as required by the UAAP rules. Here are the play-off games to be held this Wednesday:

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Ouch. Why La Salle, WHY???

Like Rick, I have no idea how to spin this in a positive way. This is just a damn travesty to the sport of volleyball and yet another setback for the La Salle sports program. Look, I have nothing against La Salle, but..

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Good luck to the rest of the teams, may the games be exciting so we could all forget this horrendous saga. Again.

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The following photos were taken last February 2, 2008 (Saturday) at the Blue Eagle Gym, otherwise known as BEG. During the first game, Adamson University defeated Ateneo de Manila in 4 sets: 25-21, 25-16, 18-25, 25-21. Best Scorers were (#10) Arvien Antiquera of Adamon with a total of 16 won points and (#12) Andre Joseph Pareja of Ateneo with 19 points.

As for the second match, Far Eastern University defeated National University in 3 sets: 25-11, 25-6, 25-10. Best Scorers were (#12) Jefferson Magnaye of FEU with a total of 11 won points and (#6) Joseph Parba of NU with 7 points.

Here’s some men’s volleyball action photos:

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“I’d rather see my team going to the final four than see myself getting the MVP award. For me MVP is just a bonus. I want to make history for Ateneo.”