UNIVERSITY of the Philippines and Adamson try to check their two-game slide skid in a key UAAP Season 78 women’s volleyball contest today at The Arena.
The winner of the Lady Maroons-Lady Falcons match scheduled at 4 p.m. will give it a piece of fourth place.
Defending two-time champion Ateneo is lording it over at 4-0, while National University and De La Salle are holding identical 3-1 slates in joint second. Far Eastern University is in solo fourth with an even 2-2 card.
Winless squads University of Santo Tomas and University of the East seek to avoid getting deeper in the cellar in the curtain raiser at 2 p.m.
Meanwhile, the La Salle-Zobel Junior Archers may have lost main man Aljun Melecio to five fouls in the last two minutes of their game on Sunday.
But three reserve players scored from the free throw line and propelled the Junior Archers to a 75-68 stomping of the defending champion Ateneo Blue Eaglets Monday in the stepladder semifinals of the 78th UAAP junior basketball at the Arena in San Juan.
Jaime Cabarrus, Sean Francisco and Miguel Fortuna sank seven of eight charity attempts in the final minute, allowing La Salle-Zobel to move ahead after the Blue Eaglets tried their best to come back from four points down.
This put the Junior Archers in the finals with the National University Bullpups starting Friday. It will be their first championship appearance since they lost the crown to the Kiefer Ravena-led Blue Eaglets in 2009.
Games today (The Arena)
8 a.m. – DLSU vs UP (Men)
10 a.m. – NU vs UST (Men)
2 p.m. – UE vs UST (Women)
4 p.m. – UP vs AdU (Women)