{"id":326480,"date":"2026-04-29T20:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326480"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:29:58","slug":"2-0-vs-ust-this-season-adamson-falls-at-worst-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/2-0-vs-ust-this-season-adamson-falls-at-worst-time\/","title":{"rendered":"2-0 vs UST this season, Adamson falls at worst time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_673998\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-673998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adamson\u2019s Frances Mordi after a loss to UST within the UAAP Season 88 women\u2019s volleyball stepladder semifinals.\u2013UAAP PHOTO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Facing a UST team that they beat twice within the elimination round, Adamson\u2019s Frances Mordi knew that defeating the Golden Tigresses for a 3rd straight time wouldn\u2019t be a straightforward task.<\/p>\n<p>True enough, Mordi and the Lady Falcons were booted out by the Tigresses, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19, in the beginning of the stepladder semifinals within the UAAP Season 88 women\u2019s volleyball tournament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<h4>READ: UAAP: UST knocks out Adamson, plays NU for last finals slot<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adamson\u2019s Frances Mordi after the Lady Falcons\u2019 elimination from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAAPSeason88?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAAPSeason88<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inquirersports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@inquirersports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JQHj3SN7mK\">pic.twitter.com\/JQHj3SN7mK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rommel Fuertes Jr. (@MeloFuertesINQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeloFuertesINQ\/status\/2049447142956339583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou possibly can\u2019t beat a team twice and expect to beat them the third time [easily],\u201d Mordi, who had a breakout Season 88 campaign, told reporters after Adamson\u2019s elimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou possibly can expect them to work hard to win the subsequent game like they did today. They went all out for the sport and I feel like today is their lucky day but it surely\u2019s okay, it was a superb game for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mordi turned in 11 points on 10 attacks and a block as she and Adamson ace Shaina Nitura struggled. Nitura led the team with 13 but went just 12-of-45 on attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring our last set, I had in my mind that, okay, perhaps that is where God wants us to be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not? Let\u2019s just play, enjoy til the tip and do what we will. Nothing much in my mind but to fight until the tip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adamson\u2019s Frances Mordi after a loss to UST within the UAAP Season 88 women\u2019s volleyball stepladder semifinals.\u2013UAAP PHOTO MANILA, Philippines\u2014Facing a UST team that they beat twice within the elimination round, Adamson\u2019s Frances Mordi knew that defeating the Golden Tigresses for a 3rd straight time wouldn\u2019t be a straightforward task. True enough, Mordi and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[5825,8118,726,446,6928,1585],"class_list":["post-326480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamson","tag-falls","tag-season","tag-time","tag-ust","tag-worst"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326483,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326480\/revisions\/326483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}