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Alas Pilipinas in action against Chinese Taipei in the 2024 AVC Challenge Cup for Women at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum on May 26, 2024. Photo by Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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Alas Pilipinas

Kennedy Caacbay

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<div> <img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1716725999313Alas.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib fr-fil"/>Alas Pilipinas in action against Chinese Taipei in the 2024 AVC Challenge Cup for Women at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum on May 26, 2024. Photo by Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</div>MANILA (UPDATED) – Alas Pilipinas completed a sweep of Pool A in the 2024 AVC Challenge Cup after frustrating Chinese Taipei, 25-13, 25-21, 25-18, on Sunday at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. This was the Philippines&#x27; fourth victory in the preliminaries — also notching top seed in the pool phase after beating Australia, India, and Iran.Former PVL Best Outside Spiker Eya Laure led the Alas Pilipinas scoring with a game-high 15 points on 12 attacks, two service aces, and a block, while former Ateneo standout Vanie Gandler was also there for the offense with 12 markers. No member from the Chinese Taipei side breached double-digit territory with Hsu Fang-Min only scoring nine for the visitors. Alas struggled a bit after reaching match point as they let go a couple of points for the foreigners, but a Laure hit eventually sealed the deal to the delight of Filipino fans.<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:560px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1794709024929358002&amp;lang=en&amp;maxWidth=560px&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com%2F%23%2Fworkspace%2Fmonitoring%3Fitem%3Durn%3Anewsml%3Anews-workbench-api.abs-cbn.com%3A2024-05-26T10%3A33%3A50.045547%3A9c7f2733-0390-4322-a0d3-8c7b6d1f599c%26action%3Dcorrect&amp;sessionId=996286058d87a2ce0bf5e4ca18bdf0adc3bb85cf&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;display:block;flex-grow:1" data-tweet-id="1794709024929358002"></iframe></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560" data-twitter-extracted-i1716734154461417586="true">Semis-bound Alas Pilipinas (4-0) sweeps Pool A of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AVCChallengeCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AVCChallengeCup</a> after rolling past winless Chinese Taipei (0-4), 25-13, 25-21, 25-18, on Sunday. An Eya Laure hit ends the match for the Philippines. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/NN1Ud4lTAE">pic.twitter.com/NN1Ud4lTAE</a>— Kennedy Caacbay (@kennedyzcaacbay) <a href="https://twitter.com/kennedyzcaacbay/status/1794709024929358002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8"></script>Team captain Jia de Guzman commended their deep bench and asserted that it could make them &quot;unpredictable&quot; for the opponents. &quot;The bench is pretty deep. So, kahit sino sa amin ready pumasok, ready mag-deliver kahit si Julia Coronel as a setter. It&#x27;s good for us kasi at least we&#x27;re a bit more unpredictable para sa kalaban,&quot; the Denso Airybees setter said. Coach Jorge de Brito said anyone who entered the taraflex could contribute and expressed confidence in his players. &quot;Yes, we have full of energy, everyone went inside doing really really good. So I am really confident [that they will not only play] good but also get the results,&quot; said the national team captain. Our hometown representatives already clinched a spot in the semis on Saturday—a first for the Philippines after 63 years—a triumph commended by Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) president Ramon “Tats” Suzara. &quot;This is the first time that a Philippine team—by any gender—has ever made it to an AVC competition semifinals,&quot; Suzara said. &quot;Congratulations to Alas Pilipinas.&quot; Earlier in the day, Vietnam (4-0) logged its own sweep of Pool B after a four-set win over Indonesia (1-3), 25-17, 25-15, 25-27, 25-13, while Kazakhstan (3-1) breezed past Hong Kong (2-2), 25-17, 25-18, 25-4, to clinch a semis spot. Australia (3-1) completed the tourney&#x27;s semis cast after surviving Iran, 26-24, 25-23, 25-27, 31-29, before the Alas bout at 7 p.m. The Philippines will be facing Kazakhstan while Vietnam will battle Australia in the do-or-die semifinal round on Tuesday, May 28.

Alas Pilipinas completed a sweep of Pool A in the 2024 AVC Challenge Cup after frustrating Chinese Taipei on Sunday at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

Alas Pilipinas completed a sweep of Pool A in the 2024 AVC Challenge Cup after frustrating Chinese Taipei on Sunday at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

Semis-bound Alas Pilipinas sweeps Pool A of AVC Challenge Cup

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Semis-bound Alas Pilipinas sweeps Pool A of AVC Challenge Cup

Kennedy Caacbay,

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Published May 26, 2024 08:58 PM PHT

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Updated May 26, 2024 10:35 PM PHT

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