UP hasn’t won against NU in a UAAP men’s volleyball game since 2016. Will 2025 be the year the Fighting Maroons finally get over the Bulldogs hump?
Kobe Aca-ac and the UP Fighting Maroons aim to turn their Season 87 campaign around, figuring in a weekend spikefest with the four-time defending champion NU Bulldogs in the men’s volleyball tournament Sunday.
Match time is at 9:00 a.m. from the Mall of Asia Arena.
It has been a rocky outing so far for the Diliman-based squad, who’s winning start was quickly followed with four straight defeats.
Against the UST Golden Spikers, UP got smashed from the get-go en route to a straight-set defeat, dropping to 1-4 in the team standings.
No Fighting Maroon reached twin-digit scoring as Aca-ac ended up with a team-high six points, while Tommy Castrodes chipped in five markers.
Nigerian hitter Olayemi Raheem only finished with three points, his lowest scoring outing so far this Season 87.
Against NU, the Fighting Maroons will fight history as well as UP last scored a victory against the Bulldogs in Season 78 all the way back in 2016.
(With reports from Pao Ambat)
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