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Creamline captain Alyssa Valdez in action against the Chery Tiggo Crossovers in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference at the Santa Rosa Sports Complex on March 16, 2024. Photo from PVL Media Bureau

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Creamline captain Alyssa Valdez

Kennedy Caacbay

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:958px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1710585169149PVL 2024 Creamline vs. Chery Tiggo - Alyssa Valdez-4247.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Creamline captain Alyssa Valdez in action against the Chery Tiggo Crossovers in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference at the Santa Rosa Sports Complex on March 16, 2024. Photo from PVL Media Bureau"/><span class="fr-inner" spellcheck="false" style="text-align:left">Creamline captain Alyssa Valdez in action against the Chery Tiggo Crossovers in the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Conference at the Santa Rosa Sports Complex on March 16, 2024. <em>Photo from PVL Media Bureau</em></span></span></span></div><p>SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Creamline captain Alyssa Valdez expects her team to bounce back from a shock straight sets loss dealt by the Chery Tiggo Crossovers in the 2024 Premier Volleyball League (PVL) All-Filipino Conference on Saturday at the Santa Rosa Sports Complex.</p><p>The Cool Smashers&#x27; defeat was historic in itself — it was their first defeat in 20 games, coming from a 15-game sweep of the 2023 Second All-Filipino Conference, and were still spotless after four games this tourney.</p><p>Up until today.</p><p>It was also their first straight-set<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> downfall since May 26, 2019, from the </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important">Petro Gazz Angels</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> in the Reinforced Conference.</span></p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/16/chery-tiggo-pulls-off-stunner-against-creamline-1545"><strong>READ: PVL: Chery Tiggo pulls off stunner against Creamline, deals champion&#x27;s first loss since 2023 Invitational</strong></a></div><p>Though visibly stunned, Valdez still took time to entertain an interview with reporters to reflect on her team&#x27;s situation after a 25-18, 26-24, 25-23 loss against Chery Tiggo.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/1/30/jema-galanza-citation-for-creamline-shows-team-s-dedication-hard-work-204"><strong>READ: Jema Galanza: Citation for Creamline shows team&#x27;s dedication, hard work</strong></a></div><p>The 30-year-old beloved volleyball player said Creamline will make this affair a springboard and motivate them to feel the fire again.</p><p>&quot;So siguro, my reaction to that after five years — wow, it&#x27;s been a while. And probably it&#x27;s really about time also for us to feel that way again. So that may renewed energy and strength kaming pagkukuhanan ng motivation,&quot; Valdez told reporters after the match.</p><p>(So maybe, my reaction to that after years is, wow, it&#x27;s been a while. And probably it&#x27;s really about time also for us to feel that way again. So that we&#x27;ll have renewed energy and strength and a source of motivation.)</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/2/24/creamline-opens-title-defense-with-hard-earned-win-over-farm-fresh-2110"><strong>READ: Creamline opens title defense with hard-earned win over Farm Fresh</strong></a></div><p>Valdez gave credit to the teams and said the level of competition in the PVL is ascending.</p><p>&quot;Well, what I can say siguro the quality of games now it&#x27;s really entertaining, interesting. Everyone&#x27;s really keeping up and ganda talaga ng nilalaro ng bawat teams.&quot;</p><p>(Well, what I can say maybe is the quality of games now, it&#x27;s really entertaining and interesting. Everyone&#x27;s really keeping up and every team is giving a good fight.)</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/3/7/pvl-creamline-dumps-galeries-stays-unscathed-1634"><strong>READ: PVL: Creamline dumps Galeries, stays unscathed</strong></a></div><p>The Creamline skipper also shared what happened in the locker room after the match.</p><p>She said the team was quiet, but asserted that they are focused on improving and bouncing back for the next game.</p><p>&quot;Well it&#x27;s a very quiet dugout, definitely. That&#x27;s expected. But you know, knowing my teammates, it might be quiet, but in their heads they&#x27;re all like really thinking on what to do, on how to improve, on how to make bawi or be better the next game. [H]opefully (&#x27;yung competitiveness) mabalik at mas madagdagan pa &#x27;yung fire namin to fight this conference.&quot;</p><p>Valdez said the loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the team.</p><p>&quot;I think maganda din &#x27;to at least kahit papa&#x27;no early at in the season and I would say dami din naming natutunan kahit gano&#x27;n so we&#x27;re really gonna go back and practice. I guess &#x27;yon na &#x27;yung magagawa namin, we have to focus on what to improve and going back to the conference.&quot;</p><p>(I think this is fine, at least we lost early in the conference, and I would say we learned a lot even though that happened. So we&#x27;re gonna go back and practice. I guess that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re gonna do, we have to focus on what to improve and going back to the conference.)</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re gonna work harder. So we&#x27;re gonna be more focused definitely. And let&#x27;s see. We&#x27;re gonna give a good fight every game.&quot;</p><div><strong>Watch her interview here:</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/syNortBiWdg?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>"We're gonna work harder. So we're gonna be more focused. And let's see. we're gonna give a good fight every game."</p>

"We're gonna work harder. So we're gonna be more focused. And let's see. we're gonna give a good fight every game."

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PVL: Expect Creamline to bounce back, says captain Alyssa Valdez

Kennedy Caacbay,

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Published Mar 16, 2024 07:05 PM PHT

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Updated Mar 20, 2024 01:40 PM PHT

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