The Perlas Spikers bucked Diana Carlos and Isa Molde’s combined 42-hit effort to hack out the one-hour, 41-minute victory that kept them in the hunt for the last Final Four seat in the mid-season conference of the league organized by Sports Vision. It was only Perlas-BanKo’s second win in five games and remained in fifth but the victory should fire up the Perlas Spikers in their last two games against the BaliPure Water Defenders and the Creamline Cool Smashers. Kathy Bersola, another former UP stalwart, backed them up with 14 markers while veteran campaigner and skipper Sue Roces delivered 13 hits for the Perlas Spikers. UP held its ground in spikes, falling just three kills short of Perlas’ 55, while producing seven aces, two more than their tormentors. But after coming through with a solid second set performance, the Lady Maroons failed to neutralize the Perlas Spikers’ power and sputtered with a number of mishits and miscues to lose the next two sets.

Source: Manila Times July 20, 2017 11:03 UTC