Brooke Van Sickle, left, and the Petro Gazz Angels throughout a loss to Taipower within the AVC Champions League.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines–Taipower merely watched the Petro Gazz Angels fall beneath the burden of their errors to prevail, 25-15, 25-16, 19-25, 25-20, on Monday on the AVC Girls’s Champions League on the Philsports Area.
Hsu Wan-Yun and Peng Yu-Rou capitalized on most of those miscues and powered the guests to the crossover quarterfinals following their straight-sets win over Hong Kong’s Hip Hing Girls’s Volleyball Staff the day earlier than.
Milana Day struck the Taiwanese flooring with 16 assaults out of 18 factors whereas Brooke Van Sickle had 13 factors, highlighted by 11 assaults and two aces for the Angels, who have been visibly removed from the championship type that propelled them to the PVL All-Filipino title only a week again.
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“The championship wasn’t too way back. I felt we celebrated it, I can say we’ve already moved on when this (AVC) event occurred,” stated Van Sickle.
“That was the final chapter and we’re now specializing in these video games. We simply got here out a bit of bit flat,” added the reigning PVL MVP after they dismantled the favored Creamline Cool Smashers of their best-of-three titular sequence.
Hsu tallied 18 factors, together with 16 assaults and Peng contributed 11 for Taipower.
Observing a fast ending, the Angels out of the blue rose from two units all the way down to safe Set 3 by pouncing on Taipower’s errors.
They managed to create the separation by successive errors by Lin Cai-Zhen and Hsu, which Van Sickle capitalized on, 21-17, with an lively cross.
Van Sickle and Aiza Maizo-Pontillas conspired with Pleasure Dacoron that pushed the Angels nearer earlier than one other Van Sickle ace capped the set.
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Taipower regrouped in Set 4 and rapidly gained the higher hand by the heroics of Huang Ching-Hsuan and Hsu.
Peng Yu-Rou unloaded a piercing crosscourt strike and Huang’s operating smash opened an eight-point benefit for Taipower made a lot simpler by Day’s back-to-back miscues.
“Taipower, they’re a group that may push you bodily, mentally. They’re actually good at what they do. They’re very disciplined. That’s what we will discovered from them,” stated Van Sickle.
MJ Phillips tried to save lots of the Angels with a speeding spike and kill block, 22-18, that ultimately went to naught when Remy Palma misfired her serve at match level.
“We have now to stay collectively. I feel the largest factor is we performed the game as a result of we adore it, we wish to have enjoyable proper? However I really feel right this moment we didn’t have enjoyable,” stated Van Sickle.
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“Tonight, we’ll watch movie and shake it off. The primary sport is over, study from it and transfer on,” she added.
The Angels should now defeat Hip Hing on Tuesday to stay within the hunt for a quarterfinal spot.