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Kennedy Caacbay

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/20240224-pvl.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">The Creamline Cool Smashers. <em>Photo from PVL Media Bureau</em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATED)</strong> – Defending champions Creamline Cool Smashers had to earn their first win in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference the difficult way.</p><p>The Alyssa Valdez-led squad survived the pesky Farm Fresh Foxies in four sets, 34-36, 25-23, 25-22, 25-15, on Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.</p><p>Three-time PVL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Tots Carlos led the scoring for the Cool Smashers with 19 points on 17 attacks, while Jema Galanza (15 points) and Pangs Panaga (12 points) completed the pink jerseys&#x27; supporting cast.</p><p>Carlos gave her opponents the credit for putting up a fight, especially in extended Set 1, while acknowledging what went wrong on their side.</p><p>&quot;Farm Fresh really did a great job. They were defending well, they were attacking well. They did combinations, they did fast plays,&quot; she said in the postgame press conference.</p><p>&quot;On our side naman, we had a lot of errors like in the first set I think we had 11, in the second we had 10 so back to basics pa rin starting with the pass kasi shaky &#x27;yung pass namin nung una,&quot; Carlos said further.</p><p>The two teams entertained the Filipino volleyball audience after an extended Set 1 which went down to the wire.</p><p>The streaking Cool Smashers had 12 chances to close out the set for themselves after reaching set point those many times, but the Foxies only needed one to clinch the starting frame.</p><p>Creamline had an early 23-20 cushion in Set 1, but it proved unsafe as Farm Fresh forced a 24-deadlock which prolonged the frame.</p><p>The Cool Smashers later on committed an unfortunate double contact violation that gave the orange side a 35-34 lead, and Alyssa Bertolano fired an ace to gift her team the most contested set by far in the 2024 season.</p><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="2969852"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><p>&quot;Actually, &#x27;yung first set namin hindi maganda &#x27;yung simula. Pero &#x27;yun nga, &#x27;yung sinabi ko sa kanila, kailangan maka-recover kami sa mga next sets kasi talagang napag-usapan naman namin na &#x27;yung Farm Fresh, talagang hindi sila basta-basta ngayon,&quot; coach Sherwin Meneses said to reporters after the game.</p><p>That&#x27;s what the Cool Smashers did in the next sets — they recovered especially in the final frame where the Foxies seemed to run out of gas, 25-15 after a gutsy overall performance.</p><p>Hard spiking Trisha Tubu gave Farm Fresh a 19-point showing, backed by Kate Santiago&#x27;s 11-point output.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="2969933"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div><br/></div>

<p>Defending champions Creamline Cool Smashers had to earn their first win in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference the difficult way.</p>

Defending champions Creamline Cool Smashers had to earn their first win in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference the difficult way.

Creamline opens title defense with hard-earned win over Farm Fresh

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Creamline opens title defense with hard-earned win over Farm Fresh

Kennedy Caacbay,

ABS-CBN News

Published February 24, 2024 09:34 PM PHT

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Updated February 25, 2024 02:31 AM PHT

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