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Zhetysu takes down Choco Mucho in AVC Volleyball Championship

Zhetysu trounced Choco Mucho in straight sets, 25-22, 25-19, 25-15, in the Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship on Saturday at the Terminal 21 competition hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

The loss was Choco Mucho’s second in a row as they failed to contain the power and skill of Anastasiya Gurbanova, Svetlana Parukova and Valeriya Shatunova in Pool A action.

Choco Mucho takes a break on Sunday as it awaits which team will finish in second place in Pool B. They will face that squad in the knockout quarterfinals.

Setter Deanna Wong said they have to be more mature and cohesive to perform better in this tournament.

Deanna Wong
Deanna Wong / SMM Volleyball

“I think we lacked composure individually. That’s what we really need—maturity in the game, on ourselves, as well as working together as a team,” said setter Wong.

Wong, though, realizes that developing cohesion and chemistry is not an overnight assignment.

“We would have to improve on these aspects by ourselves every day,” added Wong, whose teammates, whose participation in their first international sortie is supported by the Philippine Sports Commission, Rebisco, Taguig City and Asics, wound up at the bottom of the three-team Pool A.

Coach Odjie Mamon said Choco Mucho they’ll have to work more on becoming a cohesive team and on how to ride momentum every time it presents itself.

“It was quite disappointing that we can play good touches in defense but cannot convert in offense,” Mamon said. “For now, we really have to work on the team’s cohesion and making their teamwork really come out in the game.”

Modestly for the team, Choco Mucho didn’t grope all game long and showed flashes of having learned from its first acid test, an 11-25, 26-28, 17-25 setback to Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima QminC VC on opening day Friday.

Choco Mucho’s blocking was solid behind middles Ria Meneses and national team debutant Dell Palomata, both defending the fort against the taller Kazahks in the first two sets.

The Filipinas, however, lost steam in the third set as Zhetysu delivered a more solid offensive and defensive game to hammer out the straight sets romp.


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